Using SoftBench
Managing Your SoftBench Environment
Choosing Tool PreferencesSome classes of SoftBench tools offer more than one choice of tool. For example, SoftBench supports two editors, SoftBench XEmacs Editor and SoftBench vi Editor. Other editors are available as SoftBench contributed tools and as
To see your tool choices, choose "Options:
Tool Preferences…". If your preferred tool does not appear on the
"Available Tools" list, see “Registering New Tools with SoftBench” on page 80 for information about making it available. To change which tools are used:
1.From the "Select a Tool" list on the left, select the tool class.
2.From the "Available Tools" list on the right, select the specific tool you want.
If you have created a $HOME/.softbench/bmsinit file, setting tool preferences through SoftBench overrides your bmsinit entries. To use an entry in your bmsinit file, set the tool preference to Default for the tool class.
3.Select OK.
To make your change in tool preferences take effect, you need to stop all processes related to the tool class you changed. For example, to start a new editor, close all text editing windows and the editor index window (if applicable).
Registering New Tools with SoftBenchSoftBench provides an open, extensible environment in which advanced users can develop tool encapsulations and run those encapsulations as SoftBench tools.
To use a
1.Install the
http://devresource.hp.com/softbench
2.Register the tool with SoftBench Broadcast Message Server by adding
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