Re: Seeking Suggestions for Template Projects
Re: Seeking Suggestions for Template Projects
- Subject: Re: Seeking Suggestions for Template Projects
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:35:05 +0200
On 14 jun 2006, at 19:18, Rush Manbert wrote:
1) Is there any advantage to making an "official" project template
by copying the project directory to the magic location over just
leaving the original in your source tree and copying/renaming it
when you want a new library project? I can write a script that
copies and renames, and it saves the Mac developers from needing to
install the project template directory.
I guess nothing apart from being able to use some built-in Xcode
magic to automatically rename and substitute some things.
2) Since my project template contains a named target that builds
the library, I will want to rename the target when I make a new
project. I will also want to change the product name build setting.
Is there any programmatic way to do that other than AppleScript?
You have to edit the $projectname.xcode/project.pbxproject file and
replace the appropriate target name with "«PROJECTNAME»" (without the
double quotes). The encoding of the file is UTF-8, but it doesn't
(and mustn't) start with an UTF-8 marker. So the safest way to do
this (in my experience), is to edit it as Mac OS roman or so, open a
standard Apple template in another window and copy/paste the
corresponding character string (should look like "«PROJECTNAME»",
again without the quotes).
You can also put a file called TemplateInfo.plist in the
$projectname.xcode directory, with contents like this:
---
{
FilesToRename = {
"PascalTool.pas" = "«PROJECTNAME».pas";
"PascalTool.1" = "«PROJECTNAME».1";
};
FilesToMacroExpand = (
"«PROJECTNAME».1"
);
Description = "This project builds a command line tool written in
Pascal and compiled with the Free Pascal Compiler.";
}
---
FilesToRename is self-explanatory I guess. The FilesToMacroExpand are
scanned and every occurrence of «PROJECTNAME» in them is replaced
with the actual project name. There may be other macro's you can put
in, but I don't know about them.
3) My "build the library" target build settings are based on a
Xcode config file (actually 2 - one for Debug and another for
Release) that is in the project directory. We name the config files
for the target, so I will need to change the config file name and
set the "based on" setting for the target. Do I need AppleScript to
do the target setting?
I'm not sure if I completely understand what you want to do, but at
first sight you should be able to do this with the above as well.
Jonas
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