[Lazarus] Dear developers, we need your help before releasing 0.9.26

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mattias Gärtner wrote:

> Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:49:32 +0200
> > > "Graeme Geldenhuys" <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Vincent Snijders
> > > > <vsnijders at quicknet.nl> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you choose, Project -> New -> Program?
> > > > >
> > > > > How would you perfect console application template look like?
> > > >
> > > > If the default as mentioned above is not good enough, then install the
> > > > Templates Package (I think it's going to be installed by default in
> > > > the next release).  You can then setup whatever template projects you
> > > > want.
> > >
> > > For teaching it might be useful if the IDE starts with the template
> > > instead of the default 'new application'.
> > > Maybe the checkbox 'open last project on start' should be extended with
> > > the possibility to select which project type to use on start.
> >
> > Delphi allows to set:
> >
> > - The default project type
> > - Default main form
> > - Default new form.
> > (In the menu, select "Tools - Repository". Choose object that you want and
> >  set the appropriate checkbox)
> >
> > I think this is a useful feature :-)
> 
> I think it would be more intuitive, if you can simply check the default items in
> the 'new ...' dialog.

Sure. You can do that in delphi: right-click in the 'File - New' dialog,
and you can select 'properties', which then takes you to the same dialog
as 'Tools - Repository' does.

> What features has Tools / Repository under Delphi?

Basically the above, and it allows to 'customize' the tree in File|New.

The repository is something like the 'project templates', but a bit
standardized. It just copies a file from a designated directory, 
and renames the object inside. (that's of course a very rough description)

Michael.