Dev:NIC

New Instance Creator is a project templating system that creates ready-to-build empty projects for varying purposes.

To do: would be nice to explain what the five options mean, what the arguments mean, and why you might want to use those options and those arguments.

= How to use a template =

$THEOS/bin/nic.pl

NIC will list all the available templates present in. Usually, these templates will reside within a second folder named  as most templates are made for the iPhone platform (includes iPhones, iPods and iPads).

NIC will prompt you for all the necessary information before creating a project.

NIC Example
Here is an example of what you will see when using the NIC to create a project (with user input shown in bold):

$ $THEOS/bin/nic.pl NIC 1.0 - New Instance Creator --  [1.] iphone/application [2.] iphone/library [3.] iphone/preference_bundle [4.] iphone/tool [5.] iphone/tweak Choose a Template (required): 1 Project Name (required): iPhoneDevWiki Package Name [com.yourcompany.iphonedevwiki]: net.howett.iphonedevwiki Authour/Maintainer Name [Dustin L. Howett]: Instantiating iphone/application in iphonedevwiki/... Done. $

The above will create a folder ./iphonedevwiki in the current working directory - make sure you have permissions to create a folder.

Alternately,  supports the following arguments:

If a template requires extra variables, they will have to be provided by hand.

= How to create new templates =

Say something about old and new templates, refer to denicify.pl and nicify.pl

= How to set default values =

You can create the file  to set up some default values for NIC to use. Writing the following lines in this file: username = "Dustin L. Howett" package_prefix = "net.howett" will make NIC not ask for username. When prompted for a packagename, Package Name [com.yourcompany.iphonedevwiki]: will be Package Name [net.howett.iphonedevwiki]:

If you add an e-mail address in the username like this: username = "Dustin L. Howett " will make the "Author" cell in the package description in Cydia prompt to create a mail with the To: field already set.

= External links =


 * How nic.pl works