Application Interface Help

Design Inspector

Accessed by pressing Space Bar and entering Show Design Inspector. The Design Inspector is available as an interface to expose the functionality of custom plugins that you may want to create to extend the Capital applications. Once a plugin is loaded, a new tab appears in the inspector, from where you can access all of the plugin’s functions.

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If there are multiple tabs, you can drag and drop the tabs to reorder them. When you close and reopen the Design Inspector it remembers the order of the tabs and which tab was last active.

Just as you can configure other custom action plugins to appear in the dropdown of the Custom ribbon action at the top of an application, you can also configure Design Inspector plugins to do the same. However, note that you cannot access Design Inspector plugins from a context menu that is accessed by right-clicking an object in the design browser or diagram. See Custom Action Plugins.

The creation and application of plugins is detailed in a separate document called CustomDesignInspectorDevelopment.pdf, which you can find in the \doc\plugin folder of your Capital home directory.

Once the plugin is in the correct location, check it has loaded and refresh the installed plugins list if necessary. Open Capital Systems Integrator, press Status Bar and enter Plugins. If the custom plugin is not displayed in the Available Plugins list, click the Reload All button to refresh the list. Once you have verified that the plugin is present, close the dialog box.

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