SlickEdit User Guide

CODE TEMPLATES
[ConfigDir]/templates/ItemTemplates/
TIP You can locate your Configuration Directory from the main menu by clicking Help > About
SlickEdit.
All files will be created relative to the folder you choose. For more information about how templates
are organized, see Organizing Templates.
2. Create or edit a code file (e.g. *.cpp, *.java, etc.). Replace occurrences of substitutable text with
substitution parameter names. For example, you might want to make the name of a C++ or Java
class into a substitution parameter, in which case you could use the $safeitemname$ substitution
parameter. For more information on substitution parameters, see Substitution Parameters.
3. Create an XML file and give it an extension of .setemplate.
4. Insert template metadata into the .setemplate file. See the example below. For more information
on template metadata elements, see Code Template Metadata File Reference.
5. Create a new project or open an existing one.
6. From the main menu, click Project > Add New Item.
7. Verify that your new template item appears in the Templates list on the Add New Item dialog box.
Example
The following example illustrates the metadata for an item template for a custom Java class, along with the
content of the Java source code file.
From the Add New Item dialog box, if the user entered Foo.java for the item name, then $fileinputname$
would be replaced with “Foo” in the file name of the file created, and $safeitemname$ would be replaced
with “Foo” in the Java source code file.
MyClass.setemplate:
My Java Class
My custom Java class
MyClass.java
MyClass.java
MyClass.java:
class $safeitemname$ {
};
Creating a Multi-file Template
A multi-file template is a template item that creates more than one file.
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