Graeme,
If you want to control everything that's created for a new project, you will probably want to create a package that adds your own custom application type to File | New. For an example of a package that does that and illustrates how to change just about everything that's set in a new project, see the 3 extp_proj files included in extp_tk_20090525.zip that's downloadable from here (under Files):
http://groups.google.com/group/extpascal
When you create a new project based on the ExtPascal Application, it has completely different default source code in the program and unit files, as well as turning off all the useless Windows related GUI stuff that you list (useless for a CGI app, that is).
This is based primarily on a great deal of trial and error working with the ProjectIntf and other units. I found them to be very solid and eventually could do everything I needed to do, they're just not documented.
Thanks.
-Phil
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-----Original Message-----
From: Graeme Geldenhuys [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:58 AM
To: Lazarus mailing list
Subject: [Lazarus] New project defaults
Hi,
How can I set new project defaults. When I create a new "Free Pascal
Project", it always generates the *.rc file, 8.manifest and includes a
resource for the icon etc... I don't want any of that even though my
linux project compiles without problems, all those settings are
irrelevant to Linux. I have to constantly go into the Project Options
and tick those options and then afterwards manually delete the leftover
*.rc, *.manifest and *.res files.
I believe Delphi and Kylix had a "Use as default" checkbox in the bottom
left corner of the Project Options dialog, which when ticked means the
current settings will be used for the next new project - as default
settings.
Does Lazarus IDE have something like this? I looked around in the
various menus but couldn't see something obvious.
Regards,
- Graeme -
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