On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:43:31PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 8/19/08, Tom Verhoeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 1. What is the default location for the project templates?
>
> Under my system (Linux) in was $HOME/.lazarus/templates/
Under Windows (which I use rarely, but our students do), it is
C:\lazarus\templates
where Lazarus itself is installed in C:\lazarus\. The ...\templates
directory does not even exist.
> >From this I gather it defaults to wherever the Lazarus settings folder
> is plus the templates directory. ...
Apparently not on Windows.
> > 6. When creating a New Project from a template, a dialog window appears
> > to set the project name and the directory name, and also to
> > set additional variables.
>
> Oh, and on my system the label captions don't fit and even if I resize
> the dialog, only the edit boxes resize, the captions always stay
> partially visible. Lazarus compiled with GTK1.
Same on Windows and Mac.
> > 7. It is not clear to me what the requirements are for naming files
> > in the template, and how these names get changed when the template
> > is instantiated. Should I put files like project.ini, project.lpi,
> > project.pas, unit1.pas in the template directory,
>
> Yes
Is this a yes to that they need to be named project.lpi, or could
it also be demo.lpi?
> > and will
> > project.{lpi,pas} be renamed depending on the name chosen by
> > the user when instantiating the template?
>
> Good question! I was wondering the same thing and it seems it doesn't
> rename the files. They are copied as-is. Which makes we wonder what
> the Project Name variable is used for?
That is exactly what I want to understand.
Tom
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