How to add a tool to Eiffel Studio advance

Warning: This information is outdated as of the release of EiffelStudio 6.1. All tool development should now use EiffelStudio Foundations.

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Tool memory handling

We should implement "internal_recycle" feature for every EB_TOOL descendants. See figure 1.

Add a mini tool bar for our Hello World tool

Redefine two mini tool bar related features in our EB_HELLO_WORLD_TOOL. See figure 2. Then run the Eiffel Studio project, the result is shown in figure 3.

Internationalization support

We added the strings which we want translate to class INTERFACE_NAMES. See figure 4. After that, we update our EB_HELLO_WORLD_TOOL codes. See figure 5.