Installing your own tool

Revision as of 16:34, 2 March 2007

To install your own tool

• Place your tool class file into Wandora's tool directory.
• Restart Wandora.
• Open Tool manager.
• Create new tool.
• Locate your tool class and give a name for your tool.
• Accept new tool and close tool manager.

Now your tool is available at Tools menu and ready to be executed.

Placing the tool class file

Tool manager seeks tool classes in:

     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/exporters
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/extractors
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/importers
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/layers
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/subjects
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/selections
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/associations
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/generators
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/navigate
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/project
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/subjects
     com/gripstudios/applications/wandora/admin/tools/topicnames
     com/gripstudios/applications/fng/tools

Path list is in Wandora options file. To set the tool manager to seek your class path add new path element to options file. For example if your tool class package is org.myproject.tools add element

   <path15>org/myprojects/tools</path15>

to options. Here we assume that there options already contains 14 path settings.