[Lazarus] Changeability of Lazarus Project1 , Unit1 and Form1 names .

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:56:41 -0700
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <sanliturk at ttnet.net.tr> wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear Sirs ,
> 
> In "Lazarus IDE" :
> 
> In "Project Options" page :
> In "Application Settings" part
>     Title : project1    <----- "project1" is default and it seems
> editable .
> 
> When this field is changed , the new name is seen in the "Lazarus
> IDE" title .
> 
> Is it possible to add here a new field such as
> 
> Main Unit Name : Unit1 <---- "Unit1" is default and please make this 
> also editable ?

Please define 'main unit'.

 
> In "Forms" page "Form1" is the default name and it is NOT editable .

Good idea. But it needs some work, because at the moment you can only
rename a form when the form is open in the designer. And even this does
not yet rename all references. So maybe it can be done, after the
rename is improved. You can add it to the wiki wish list.


> In this page , is it possible to include an editable field with
> default "Form1"
> to allow users to be able to generate projects and its components with
> specified form names ?

For project templates see
components/projecttemplates/README.txt

 
> During saving the project definition , Lazarus is asking a unit name 
> with default being "unit1.pas"  .
> When this name is changed it is reflected into program source .
> Before unit name a form names is NOT asked .

Right. Saving needs a filename. A form name is not needed for saving.


> After that Lazarus is asking saving the program again by supplying 
> "project1" name as default
> but not the new given name .

Please create a bug report for this.

 
> At present it is possible to edit ALL project related files and
> change all of these names , but
> this is difficult and time consuming and error-prone .

Time consuming: 
IMO it is not very common to rename several forms at once. And you
rename all components on the form anyway. Compared to this, the naming
of a form on save will not save much time. A group rename would save
more time. For example renaming all childs of a groupbox.

Why error-prone?

> The ability to give these names at the beginning is more easy .

pov. I personally don't think so.


Mattias