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In this video, we'll go over the steps necessary to create our own custom project template.

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The idea here is that we can create our own project templates, and when we create our projects, we

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can use this template as the starting point.

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That way we'll have a proper main CPP file.

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We'll have all our switches set.

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We'll have our environment set.

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All right, so let's get started.

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First thing you need to do is open up a workspace.

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I've got a workspace already open, already created, I should say.

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I'm going to open it now.

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I'm going to say open workspace.

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If you don't have a workspace at all, you could just say file new workspace.

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So I'll open the workspace that I've got.

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It's on my desktop and it's called CP workspace.

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So I'll open that.

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And the first thing you want to do is you want to add a project.

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So you want to right click on your workspace and say New, new project.

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Now here you've got the new project Wizard and you've got different examples.

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You can create gooey applications, console applications, you can have user templates and so forth.

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What we want to do is we want to use the simple executable plus plus template that comes with code light,

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and we want to tweak that our own way.

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And then what we want to do is we want to create our own template and here that we can choose and we

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could put it in console or we can put it here in user templates, we could put it wherever we'd like.

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Okay.

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But before we do that, we need to create a project.

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So let's do that.

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I'm going to select console and let's use the G plus plus simple executable console template press next.

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The project name.

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It doesn't really matter.

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I'll just say sample since we're going to save it as a template anyway and I'll select next.

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We want to make sure our compilers are set up correctly.

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Here I'm using min gw and the GDB debugger select finish.

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And that creates our project.

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You can see here's the source file and here's the CP file, which is really C code and not C++ code.

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But we'll fix all this in a minute.

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So first thing we want to do is we want to get rid of this and let's write a simple C++ program, same

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one we've been writing all along.

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So we'll say include IO stream, we'll include IO streams since we're going to probably use it in most

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of the projects that we write, then we have our main function.

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And again it's int main open closed friends and then an open curly which will be automatically closed

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by code.

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Like here we can indent in by just pressing tab and we could say STD two colons see out and then the

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insertion operator followed by the string hello world and you can type anything you like here for hello

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world and we'll do also an STD two colons and del.

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This prints a new line that way when we display hello world the cursor will go to the next line on the

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console and then finally we'll just return zero like we always do.

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That's it.

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I'm going to save this so that press control is here.

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So I've just done that and saved it.

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Now we'll set some compiler settings.

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We'll do this the one time, then we'll save it as a project template.

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So let's go to the sample project, the actual project name, and we'll right click go down to settings.

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Global settings and we want to make sure we've got those two compiler options set.

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So we're going to right click on those three little dots here on the button.

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You want to select that button and click, and we want to make sure that we've got our all warnings

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enabled on and our C++ 14 standard on.

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Press.

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Okay.

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Then you want to come to us as code completion and select that and select enable C++ 14 Standard Apply.

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And that's it.

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Now, what we can do is we can come to the project again, right click and say Save as template.

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So I'll select that.

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And what's the project name?

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This could be anything we want.

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We could just say frank template or template for course or any name you like rather than that.

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I'm just going to say Frank, let's see G plus.

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Plus.

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Console.

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Template.

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I think it's pretty picky about spaces, so I'm just going to use those dashes and it is a console application.

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If you leave it as console, it'll be in the console group.

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I'm actually going to change that to user template.

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And then you can give any description you want.

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I'll just say Frank's console template.

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That's it.

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I'll select.

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Okay.

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And now we've got a new template that's stored.

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So if I go back to my workspace and I want to create a new project now, we close all this up, I'm

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going to right click and say New project.

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And now you can go down to your templates and go down to your user templates right here.

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And you should see that one we just created right here.

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So we can just select that.

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Next, I'll just say project one, select next, keep the defaults for the compilers and finish.

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At this point you can double click here to make that project, the active project and we'll look at

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the main CP.

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You can see it's the main CP that we just typed.

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Also, if you right click on the project and you go down to the settings, you can see a code completion

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is C++ 14 and the global settings have the appropriate compiler flags that we need.

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That's it.

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We'll test this real quick.

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That's run, build and execute.

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And Hello World.

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That's it.

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So now you've got a project, you're all set up.

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You can create as many of these as you like.

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Tweak the settings as far as you like.

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It's really up to you to decide what you want to do with the project templates.

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But for this course include IO stream.

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Give yourself a main.

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You may or may not want this line right here since you know you're probably going to get rid of it anyway

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when we start writing other code.

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But at a minimum do something like that.

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When you create a new project, you'll be ready to start coding.