External tools are a mechanism within Intellij-IDEA to provide a shareable process.
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IntelliJ Macro for external tool (compass)
I am trying to integrate the use of the compass scss framework in intellij. For that I created a new external tool in a group named "My Tools".
Under "Program" I entered the path to the compass.bat file, "Parameters" is "watch". For "Working…

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batchfiles eclipse main application external tools
I am working with Lejos and java Eclipse on Windows 7. As my machine is 64 bit it will not allow me run the standard Lejos driver as an Eclipse plugin I installed it as an external tool . I followed this super helpfull tutorial…

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How do I embed variables as arguments to variables in Eclipse' external tools?
I'm trying to configure an external tool for eclipse and I want to prompt the user to select a folder under his/her workspace. Eclipse provides a ${folder_prompt} variable that can be used, and it's second parameter is the starting directory. So, I…

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How to configure External tool in Eclipse to run a jar file and load other class files?
In Eclipse Indigo (on Mac OSX), I have a project 'Test'. In this project I have a package 'test1'. In this package, I have a class Test.java.
In short the file structure is: Test/src/Test.java and
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