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Jack Perkins Junior Member Offline Posts: 99	Auto open template Apr 26th, 2009, 10:47am   A lot of programs that give you a blank window when you select 'new' are actually opening from a template file somewhere. I'd really like be able to autoload a lot of things (draw and setup anyone?) everytime I make a sketch. Is there a file that I can modify for this?

gcolefla YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 25	Re: Auto open template Reply #1 - Apr 28th, 2009, 1:29pm   thats a really good idea, maybe you could just always have a save file on your desktop and use that as your starting point, and then you can just save as for you new file name.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Auto open template Reply #2 - Apr 28th, 2009, 1:43pm   Note that on Windows at least, you can define a template file to use in the Windows Explorer's context menu (New... > Folder / Text document, etc. you can add Processing sketch for example).

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Auto open template Reply #3 - Apr 28th, 2009, 8:49pm   but how does that give you the chance to start with a predefined sketch?
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Auto open template Reply #4 - Apr 29th, 2009, 8:19am   Windows Explorer > New > Processing Sketch => You get a typical NewSketch.pde => Double-click it, you open Processing's PDE with this template sketch. You might need to use Save As to generate the sketch folder as well. (All this is untested! )