Dear sirs,

thank you for the free pascal compiler, I am a student at www.fernuni-hagen.de.

When starting free pascal compiler, there is a preselected *.pas that appears its programcode. As I tried to delete the preselected file, there was an error like 'cannot load, file is missing'.

How is it possible both to delete the automatical entry of code and to select a different, maybe a self-template code?

faithfully

Am 28.04.2015 08:34 schrieb "Christian Ingo Fahrner" <

www.fernuni-hagen.de.

When starting free pascal compiler, there is a preselected *.pas that

appears its programcode. As I tried to delete the preselected file, there was an error like 'cannot load, file is missing'.

How is it possible both to delete the automatical entry of code and to

select a different, maybe a self-template code?

Do you mean you started the command-line compiler ("fpc") or the text mode IDE ("fp")?

Regards,
Sven

I guess that the e-mail subject combined with the description suggests the latter (i.e. it is indeed the FP IDE, not the compiler). If this assumption is correct, the issue may be related to desktop (of the IDE) saved from some previous session. From this point of view, the possible answers might be:

1) If you remove file fp.dsk stored either in the directory, from which fp is started, or in the user home directory (the exact location depends on the used operating system / platform), or possibly in some system-wide shared location (again depending on the operating system / platform), the IDE should not try to load any particular file any longer.

2) Regarding the setup of something else you _want_ to open at start, there are several options. First, you may simply start the IDE with a command line parameter specifying the file to open. This may be specified e.g. in the shortcut / launch object / whatever it is called on your host platform, or you may use this option together with association of the respective file type with the IDE and then opening the file automatically in the IDE. Second, you might open the needed file on your (IDE) desktop, have the desktop saved and disable the option for automatically saving the desktop state when exiting the program. That way the IDE always starts with the same windows open, etc. Third, you might simply start the IDE without anything open by default and open files or create them based on the existing or newly created template (File -> New from template).

In order to switch from assumptions to facts, we should preferably know / understand:

1) Which host platform is this (MS Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.)?

2) Is the question related to a new installation, or an existing installation provided and maintained by someone else (e.g. in the University lab)?

Tomas

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