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krcc18a:
CHS looks like a superb tool.

1. Can I use REXX as a Custom Script tool?

2. Which version of REXX?

3. What are the arguments? What are input and output parameters?

4. Which REXX statements would I use to read and write to the clipboard?

Thanks,
Marty

x16wda:
FWIW I always prefer Regina REXX for scripting (although I am not a CHS user and don't know how it interacts).  It's just an executable, plus a library file or two, no installation required.

Do you have a preferred flavor of REXX?

krcc18a:
Regina REXX suits me fine, but I still couldn't figure out:

1. What are the arguments? What are input and output parameters?

2. Which REXX statements would I use to read and write to the clipboard?

Thanks,
Marty

mouser:
The place that you would interface a custom script is on the "Custom Script Tool" tab page of the Modify Format option:


After you configure your tool, use the Presets menu and choose Save As to save it.  You can even set a custom hotkey from the "Preset Hotkey Trigger" tab before saving.

The key to understanding how to use custom tools/scripts with CHS is to see from that dialog that CHS will first save the clipboard text to a file, and then pass that file as an argument to the script, and then expect the script to either save changes to that same file, or to a different file or output it to stdout.

So what you need to do to use REXX or any other scripting tool, is test calling your tool from a dos commandline.  Some scripting languages will let you call them directly like "myscript.py %infile%" but others may require you to call them with the full path to the interpreter like "C:\Python.exe myscript.py %infile%".

Then just test your script from the commandline until it does what you want.

There are some sample tools in the Tools\ directory of CHS to help you see how a tool should behave.

krcc18a:
Thanks all!

I got this working.

1. I had to specify the complete path to the Regina Rexx product and the REXX exec in a .bat which I had pointed the CHS Custom Script Tool menu to.

2. I took the take the defaults of:

create %infile%

and

read from %outfile%.

which were read and written to by Regina's linein and call lineout functions.

Thanks,
Marty

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