Project Manager Options Tab

This tab on the Project Manager Dialog shows the values of several options to projects:

• Name: A name for the entire project. This should be a symbol not naming any other project. This symbol is used to name the .exe, .dxl, and certain other files that are created by the File | Build Project Distribution and File | Build Project Exe commands. The name also appears in the title-bar of the IDE, and may be passed to find-project to find the project if it has been loaded with load-project or open-project. Using a keyword for the name is recommended.
• Package: Names the default package for source code that is auto-generated for the forms of the project. This value should be a keyword symbol that names an existing package, and this widget will coerce a value that is entered here to a keyword symbol naming an existing package, if any. If the value entered does not name a package, it is rejected and the former package will still be shown. A custom package may be defined in a source code file of the project and then entered here; the file that officially defines the package may then also use that package, because the .lpr project definition file will be written to define a minimal version of the project's package before any other files of the project are loaded. See project-package-name and form-package-name for more information.
• Init Function: The function that is run when the Run | Run Project command is invoked, or when the standalone application that is generated from the project is started up. The value must be a symbol naming a function that takes no arguments. The function should perform whatever initialization is needed, including creating any windows that should be displayed initially. If it returns a window, the application will run until that window is closed; otherwise the application will exit when the init function returns. The default init function simply creates the running window of the project's main form and returns it. See on-initialization, default-init-function, finder-function, and maker-function for more information.
• Main Form: The form that is run by the default initialization function when the Run | Run Project command is invoked or the standalone application that is generated from the project is started up. This form is also indicated on the General tab by a special "moving window" icon.

See the general description of the Project Manager Dialog for details of the toolbar buttons.

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Documentation for Allegro CL version 6.1 update # 1. This page was not revised.
Created 2001.12.15.