Question

Not a programming question as such, but..

..Is there a way from the Delphi IDE to define information that will be applied to newly created Units?

For example, suppose I wanted each new Unit to add some commented information to the top, like so:

I like to add such information to Units so that anyone else who may need access to it has some brief information. Obviously I am not expecting the IDE to fill in the Overview information.

I noticed some OpenSource Components include the License Information at the top of Units, I assume they were just Copy and Pasted in there, but wouldnt it be handy if there was a way to Automate such IDE behaviour?

Additionally, I have a few external Units added to my Library Path, which I add to the Uses Clause of a Form/Unit when needed. There is one paticular Unit I always find myself using, It would also be handy to Automatically include X Unit to the Uses Clause of New Units.

Is there a trick to doing something like this, or should Copy and Paste be enough?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You’ll have to stick to copy/paste. If there was a slick way to do this then every single Delphi programmer on the planet would have used it to turn this

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

into this

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
  end;