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Specifying Custom Modules in AppData Configuration

When you customize this editor you can specify the name of the custom modules to be used without editing source and compiling.

This capability was added because some of the tools that call the API's GetDocPerl/PutDocPerl methods were written in C or VB, and compiled into executable files such as XmEdit.exe, the XMetaL Editor tool. Even with script-based tools such as EpicEdit.pl, it is not advised that you modify the delivered source when customizing the tool.

Another reason that the capability was added is that in some cases, a given tool may need to use different custom modules depending on the docytpe of the data being exported/imported.