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You didn’t specify which version of Multi-Edit you are trying to add these menu entries to.
Creating an AddOn package to do what you want would probably be the best way to do this. Most of the information you need to create an AddOn package is in the 9.0 and 9.10 help files. There are a number of examples of AddOn packages released with both 9.0 and 9.10. For 9.10 these packages are located in the AddOns subdirectory of the main Multi-Edit 9.10 install.
Your installer would copy all of the files of your AddOn package to the correct place, i.e. c:\Program Files\Multi-Edit 9.10\AddOns\yourPkgName, and then it would start Multi-Edit using something like the following:
“c:\Program Files\Multi-Edit 9.10\Mew32.exe” -r “Update^Install /A=1/F=c:\Program Files\Multi-Edit 9.10\AddOns\yourPkgName\Install.lst”
OK, take a look at the AddOns\WinList directory under the Multi-Edit 9.10 installation directory. This is a complete AddOn to add the Windows List dialog to the Navigation Pane. It contains an Install.lst file that you can uses as an example.
In the Multi-Edit Help, the Install.lst information can be found at:
Modifying Multi-Edit Startup | Update Script Reference | Add-On Package Installation Files | Install.lst (Required)
Oh, I though you were running a macro out of the config file to do the deleteing. What I sugested is cmac code.
With the update scripts you will need to include the metacommands for the ME directory <ME_PATH> and <LFN> for the long file name likely to be involved in the ME path with your call to DelFile.
so try
DelFile <LFN><ME_PATH>Startup2.cfg
assuming the file is in the ME directory. You may want to download a copy of the ME doc in PDF form. I think it is in the downloads section of the site. It has explanations of the metacommands and update scripts.HTH
ClayLooks good. You may have a point about deleting istself, but that is beyond my keen, Dan will probably have to answer that one.
I don’t have a startup2.cfg so I don’t think it is being recreated.
You could try enclosing all your startup2.cfg commands in a if statement that checks for a global variable
If <~yourvar> != 1
….
Endifand within the if block create that variable with
GInt yourvar 1Thus your block of code would be skiped after it runs once. Yea its a bit cludgy
but might get around the delete file problems. If that does not work ’cause the var does not exist then maybe:
GInt yourvar
If <~yourvar> != 1
GInt yourvar 1
….
EndifHTH,
ClayUsing run once guarded by a global variable can be a good idea but I’m affraid it would run again for any new session. The next possibility is to delete it using exit macro I described before. Deleting script from inside doesn’t seems reasonable to me.
The most general way is to use Add-On package as Dan suggested.
I’m likely missing the whole point here, but I have kibitzing on both sides of my family.
Why not use the Import/Export facility on a machine configured as you want, to create the update files containing the custom configuration? Then use your installer or a batch file to run each user copy of Multi-Edit using the /R command-line flag to run the update macro? (On a side note, the documentation for the update facility is under the heading Adding Features to Multi-Edit in the online help.) Of course, as Michal noted, macros run that way execute before the program is fully initialized; whether that would be a problem for a macro only attempting to update the command map, I don’t know.More versatile, albeit more involved methods would use either Multi-Edit’s DDE or COM server to do pretty much the same thing. The documentation for that is in the section right after the update reference, titled Integrating External Applications. Overkill, perhaps, but not all that hard to do, if you’re even a little familiar with either interface. Besides, it’s useful to know for other things, as you can pretty much totally automate Multi-Edit that way, especially using the COM interface.
I guess them’s my 0.02 Zorkmids.
The new ME manual is , seconnd entry from the top.
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