Add your own tool to JBuilder
Previous versions of JBuilder made it possible to add our own tools / applications to the Tools menu. But we had to dive into the tools.cfg file and add an entry for our tool. In JBuilder 3 we can use a dialog to simply add a new tool to the Tools menu. In this week's tip we will add a new entry for Paint Shop Pro. So if we have for example a GIF or JPEG file in our project we can select the file and then open Paint Shop Pro with the selected file from the Tools menu.

We need to take the following steps:

• We select the Tools menu.
• Select the Tools Options... menu option.
• The following dialog opens:
  

  Here we see the tools already installed and options to add our own tool, to edit or to delete a tool.

• We must click on the Add... button to add PaintShop Pro to the list.
• We now see the following dialog:
  

  We must fill in values in this dialog to add Paint Shop Pro.

• Fill in Paint Shop Pro in the Title field.
• Click on the Browse... button to add the Paint Shop Pro executable. We can search our computer for the psp.exe file.
• We simply type a single dot in the Working dir field, because we don't have to change the working directory for Paint Shop Pro.
• The Parameters field is used for passing parameters to the Paint Shop Pro executable. Here we want to use the name of the selected (file)node in our project. We can select a macro from the Macros list to achieve just this.
  We must select the $NodeName macro and click on the Insert button.
• We can now close this dialog by clicking the OK button.
• We return to the Tools Options dialog and we can now close this dialog.

We can now select a graphics file in our project and start Paint Shop Pro with the selected file.