Allan,
Im not sure if this has been mentioned before but have you considered adding some sort of support for project templates? Im thinking of something that can be accessed from the File menu with no files open, that pops open a dialog like the ³new file from template² one, a bit like the way Xcode does it. We are in the process of making something that can be run as a command that can sort of do this, ie: ask for user input for the project name, a location to save the project etc and this is working quite nicely, but it requires a document to be open to run it, which obviously isnt ideal. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Regards
Chris Jenkins
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On 07/11/2005, at 12.28, Chris Jenkins wrote:
[...] have you considered adding some sort of support for project templates?
Not really -- in principle there should be nothing wrong with having a normal (file) template generate a project, although I'd have to spot the .tmproj extension.
[...] be run as a command that can sort of do this, ie: ask for user input for the project name, a location to save the project etc and this is working quite nicely, but it requires a document to be open to run it, which obviously isnt ideal.
Yes, that “requires an open document” constraint definitely needs to go.
If you can program obj-c, there is currently the option of doing your template wizard as a tmplugin, see e.g. the Clock Example [1] for how to add a menu item to TM (which would open the GUI for creating the template, and then do: [[NSApp delegate] application:NSApp openFile:aPath] with aPath e.g. being the folder created (then TM will open it as a scratch project), or generate the tmproj file (the format should be straightforward).
I do have some long-term ideas of retiring the current template system in favor of using snippets (with a minimal stub to tell what parameters should be requested for the template, which would appear as environment variables in the snippets), though it's very long- term, but I'll keep projects in mind whenever I get around to it.
[1] http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Tools/Clock% 20Example%20PlugIn/
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