How Tos - Tool

To know what is the role of a tool in Snooz, see Technical Overview.

Before creating your own tool 

You need to have a properly configured development environment for Snooz.
- See Developer Installation for more details.
Ensure that you have created your repository (e.g., my_snooz_repo) to manage your packages.
- See Run Snooz from the source code for more details.
You have already explored Snooz and have an understanding of its structure.
- See Explore examples for more details.

We use a command line to help create new tool. To access the terminal in VS Code, make sure to close Snooz beforehand.

In VS Code navigate to Terminal -> New Terminal
Select your repository you forked from snooz-package-template (e.g. my_snooz_repo)
Make sure the virtual environment snooz_310_env is activated (see Developer Installation)
In the terminal type : python main_utils.py
Select 3- Create a tool
Fill the information to suit your design. If you make any mistakes, just repeat the steps and it will ask to overwrite the previous one. If you need more information, see Tools.