Tools

Custom tools are essentially the buttons and context menu items you can add to your extension. The actions performed when the user accesses these buttons and menu items is up to you. This section discusses how to create custom tools as well as remove existing tools. This section also discusses using tasks to execute code when a user activates a tool.

Implement a Custom Tool

Your custom tools must be registered in the appropriate component categories to make it available in the extension. It must be registered in at least one of the following component categories.

Component Category

Tool Appears On:

MMProcessMgrToolbar

toolbar

MMProcessMgrMenubarTool

Menu

MMProcessMgrContextMenu

Context (or right-click) menu

To register your extension, you may use the IMMRegInCat interface.

Interfaces:
    IMMTreeViewTool
    IMMTreeViewToolEx
    IMMTreeViewToolEx2

Component Category:
    MMProcessMgrToolbar
    MMProcessMgrMenubarTool
    MMProcessMgrContextMenu