/** \file HowToAddApplicationTemplates.dox * \brief How to add application templates to the application wizard part */ /** \page howToAddApplicationTemplates How to add application templates to the application wizard part Project templates provide the developer with a basic application framework. This is necessary for rapid application development (RAD) and makes it even possible for an inexperienced 3rd party developer to create standard conforming applications like kedit as well as plugins for example for tdevelop or noatun.\n\n \ref templates_1\n - \ref templates_1_1 - \ref templates_1_2 - \ref templates_1_2a - \ref templates_1_2b - \ref templates_1_2c - \ref templates_1_2d - \ref templates_1_2e . . \ref templates_2\n \ref templates_3\n \ref templates_4\n
\section templates_1 I. Example: How To Create a Simple KDE Application Template "KHello" You can find this template in $TDEDIR/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-khello. \subsection templates_1_1 I.1. Step 1: Basic Skeleton Create a directory template-khello with the files
    - template-khello/app.cpp
    - template-khello/app.h
    - template-khello/app.desktop
    - template-khello/app.kdevelop
    - template-khello/appui.rc
    - template-khello/khello
    - template-khello/main.cpp
    - template-khello/preview.png
    - template-khello/script
    - template-khello/src-Makefile.am
    - template-khello/subdirs
    .
\note The directory name must begin with "template-". \subsection templates_1_2 I.2. Step 2: The Files in Detail Have a look into the files! There are some variables which the application wizard will replace:
    - \%{AUTHOR} ...... by the author
    - \%{EMAIL} ....... by the e-mail address 
    - \%{VERSION} ..... by the version
    - \%{APPNAME} ..... by the project name (KHello)
    - \%{APPNAMELC} ... by the project name in lowercase (khello)
    - \%{APPNAMEUC} ... by the project name in uppercase (KHELLO)
    - \%{LICENSE} ..... by the license (GPL, BSD, QPL, LGPL, ...)
    - \%{LICENSEFILE} . by the licensefile
    - \%{YEAR} ........ by the year
    .
All this can be found in $TDEDIR/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-common/tdevelop.pm. \subsubsection templates_1_2a I.2.1. The Source Files The files template-khello/app.cpp, template-khello/app.h and template-khello/main.cpp contain the source code that should not be too special so that the user can implement his own ideas.\n (There may be variables included - see \ref templates_1_2 "Step 2: The Files in Detail"). \subsubsection templates_1_2b I.2.2. The File template-khello/khello It may look like this: \verbinclude khello/khello The application wizard looks into this file to get - the information where to integrate the plugin into the the listview (Category=) - the name (Name=) and the comment (Comment=) - the preview image (Icon=) - and the file templates the project uses (FileTemplates=). . Further information could be (not required): - Comment= a small comment for the template. Longer comments should go into a README.devel and shown on startup - ShowFilesAfterGeneration= a comma-separated list (without whitespaces) of files that should be opened immediately after the generation, for instance a README.devel or a source file the user has to modify, the path is relative to the project directory (example: ShowFilesAfterGeneration=src/main.cpp,src/plugin.cpp). And - APPNAMEUC will be replaced with the projectname in uppercase, - APPNAMELC will be replaced with the projectname in lowercase, - APPNAME will be replaced with the projectname. . - DefaultDestinatonDir changes the default destination dir for the project (~) to your value, whereas HOMEDIR is a keyword . \attention The file template-khello/khello must have the same name as the right half of the directory! If the directory is template-foobar the file must be template-foobar/foobar. \see AppWizardPart for more information. \subsubsection templates_1_2c I.2.3. Some Additional Files The file - template-khello/appui.rc contains information about the toolbar and the menu. - template-khello/preview.png will be shown in the aplication wizard. - template-khello/app.desktop describes the application. - template-khello/subdirs contains a list of the subdirectories (usually doc, po, src) and can be found in the project root directory. It is necessary for the autotools. . \subsubsection templates_1_2d I.2.4. The File template-khello/src-Makefile.am This file will be copied to the $PROJECTDIR/src/. \verbinclude khello/src-Makefile.am \subsubsection templates_1_2e I.2.5. The File template-khello/script The following script is used to install the template and replaces all variables by the corresponding value. The result is a hopefully working tdevelop project! \verbinclude khello/script
\note There are several application templates which use some identical files - that's why some files are taken from the "template-common"-directory. \section templates_2 II. Registration/Installation Of The Application Template The easiest way to install your template is to provide an "install.sh" shell script.\n Example: \code #!/bin/sh kde_prefix=`tde-config --prefix` if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then # we are root so install the template into the global kde directory kde_dir=`tde-config --prefix` else # we are a user so install it into $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kdevappwizard directory kde_dir=`tde-config --localprefix` echo "Note: It would be better to install as root. Press CTRL+C to abort" fi # use usual path or another one? echo "Install dir [${kde_dir}/share/apps/kdevappwizard]:" read newdir if [ "$newdir"a = a ]; then newdir="${kde_dir}/share/apps/kdevappwizard/"; fi # make sure the directories exist if [ ! -e "${newdir}/template-khello" ]; then mkdir -p "${newdir}/template-khello" ; fi; if [ ! -e "${newdir}/templates" ]; then mkdir -p "${newdir}/templates" ; fi; if [ ! -e "${newdir}" ]; then mkdir -p "$newdir" ; fi; if [ ! -e "${newdir}/template-common" ]; then ln -s "${kde_prefix}/share/apps/kdevappwizard/template-common" "${newdir}/template-common" ; fi; # install now cp -R --target-directory "$newdir" template-khello # the file template-khello/khello must go to the "templates" directory that # tdevelop knows that it exists mv "$newdir/template-khello/khello" "$newdir/templates/" echo "done" \endcode \n \attention Please test your template whether it installs and behaves correctly! Test, test and test again! ;) \section templates_3 III. How To Add The Template To TDevelop CVS HEAD This section is for tdevelop developers only. Most probably you don't have to read this!.\n Move the directory "template-khello" to tdevelop/languages/cpp/app_templates/ and then add the following files in tdevelop/languages/cpp/app_templates/template-khello/ (in this example the language is c++ if you use other language replace cpp with the language name): - ".kdev_ignore" is an empty file. It prevents TDevelop's C++-parser from parsing the C++ template files. This is necessary because the template files are just code templates and not real code (yet). - ".cvsignore" looks like this: \code Makefile Makefile.in script.local \endcode - "Makefile.am" looks like this: \verbinclude khello/Makefile.am . Finally add "template-khello" to "SUBDIRS = " in tdevelop/languages/cpp/app_templates/Makefile.am.\n \attention Please test your template whether it installs and behaves correctly! Test, test and test again! It works? Well - now talk to the tdevelop guys so that they know what's going on and probably you may commit. ;) \section templates_4 IV. Changes to the template system (VERY IMPORTANT) The entire app template system described above has been changed. To port a template to the new system the information from the script file will need to be moved into the ini file. The example is as follows: \code install( "${src}/template-chello/app.kdevelop","${dest}/${APPNAMELC}.kdevelop" ); \endcode becomes \code [PROJECT] Type=install Source=%{src}/template-chello/app.kdevelop Dest=%{dest}/%{APPNAMELC}.kdevelop \endcode Things like installIncAdmin(); and installGNU(); now involve unpacking the tar archives. This is done by creating a target in the ini file as follows: \code [GNU] Type=install archive Source=%{src}/template-common/gnu.tar.gz Dest=%{dest} \endcode The popular script functions convert as follows: \code installIncAdmin(); %{src}/template-common/incadmin.tar.gz installGNU(); %{src}/template-common/gnu.tar.gz installAdmin(); %{src}/template-common/admin.tar.gz installGnome(); %{src}/template-common/gnome.tar.gz installWX(); %{src}/template-common/wxwidgets.tar.gz \endcode To create directories is now: \code [SRC] Type= mkdir Dir=%{dest}/src \endcode New additions are as follows: \code [MGS] Type=message Comment=A simple C project was created in %{dest}. \endcode Will allow you to display a custom message when the template has finished installing. This is very handy for projects that require custom variables to be set. The concept of custom variables was also introduced. To create a variable that can be edited from the project wizard you need to add an entry as follows: \code [LIBS] Type = value ValueType= Value= Comment= Default= \endcode One special value can be used to turn targets on and off. This is done by adding a value as follows: \code [DOCSOPT] Type = value ValueType=bool Value=INSTALL_DOCS Comment= Install Docbook documentation templates. Default=true \endcode Then in the targets you wish to make optional you add the Option property with the value's name as the data. This will look as follows: \code [DOCSDIREN] Type=mkdir Dir=%{dest}/doc/en Option=INSTALL_DOCS \endcode The Option target is available to the mkdir, install, and install archive targets. The last new addition is the optional post processing of the files as they are copied. For install and install archive you can add a Process=true or Process=false to turn the processing on or off. A note on the UI. its not final, it will get better. Suggestions or bugs should be noted asap. */