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This code is a part way point in the development of a tool to perform some directory and file management. At this stage it captures information required for the management from the user. The information gathered to controlled by a configuration file. This seems a generally usefull task so the code is offered here for other monks to make what use they wish of it.

The configuration files is comprised of lines containing a parameter name, and optional default value, and a label. For example:

_version_ "1_0" Version as it should appear in the project path (e.g. 1_0)

If the default string contains names of other parameters, the default value for the parameter will be generated at run time as the other parameters are updated.

The work of the task goes in sub CreateProject (which is an appropriate name for my initial task :).

use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

=head

Parse a configuration text file (TemplateValues.txt) to gather configu
+ration
parameters, defaults and labels required to perform some task then pre
+sent a
user interface built from the information in the configuration file to
+ capture
user values for the parameters.

=cut

my $main = MainWindow->new ();

if (! open configIn, "< TemplateValues.txt")
  {
  my $text = $main->Text ();
  $text->Insert ("Unable to open configuration file: $!");
  $text->pack ();
  $main->Button (-text => "Quit", -command => sub {$main->destroy ()})
+->pack ();
  MainLoop ();
  exit (-1);
  }

my %Parameters;

while (<configIn>)
  {
  next if /^#/; #Skip comment lines
  chomp;
  next if ! length $_;
  my ($key, $default, $comment) = /^(\w+)\s(?:"(.*?)")?(.*)/;
  my $label = $main->Label (-text => $comment)->pack ();
  $Parameters {$key} =
    [
    $main->Entry
      (
      -validate => 'focusout',
      -validatecommand => sub {touch ($key);}
      )->pack (),
    $default
    ];
  }
touch ("");

$main->Button (-text => "Cancel", -command => sub {$main->destroy ()})
+->pack ();
$main->Button
  (
  -text => "Create Project",
  -command => sub {tidyParams (); CreateProject (); $main->destroy ();
+}
  )->pack ();
MainLoop;


sub CreateProject
{
#Note that %Parameters's values are now the user supplied strings

print join "\n", map {$_ . " => " . $Parameters{$_}} keys %Parameters;
}


sub touch
{
my $key = shift;

Entry: for (keys %Parameters)
  {
  next if defined $key and $key eq $_;

  my $repKey = $_;
  my $default = ${$Parameters {$repKey}}[1];
  next if ! defined $default or ! length $default; #Don't edit

  while ($default =~ /(_[a-zA-Z0-9]+_)/)
    {
    next Entry if ! defined $Parameters {$1};

    my $subStr = ${$Parameters {$1}}[0]->get ();
    $default =~ s/$1/$subStr/eg;
    }

  ${$Parameters{$repKey}}[0]->delete (0, 'end');
  ${$Parameters{$repKey}}[0]->insert (0, $default) if length $default;
  }
  
${$Parameters{$key}}[1] = undef if defined $key and length $key; #Prev
+ent auto default updates
return 1;
}


sub tidyParams
{
touch ();
for my $key (keys %Parameters)
  {
  next if ! length $key;
  next if ! defined $Parameters{$key};
  $Parameters{$key} = ${$Parameters {$key}}[0]->get ();
  }
}
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_ExtensionFile_ File name for extension (excluding file extension)
_ExtensionNameUI_ "_ExtensionFile_" Extension name as shown in UI
_ExtensionPath_ "Extensions/_ExtensionFile_" Path from PCDevelop\Main 
+to folder containing project
_MinVersion_ Minimum version required
_ExtensionSlnFile_ "_ExtensionFile_" Name of solution file (excluding 
+file extension)
_ExtensionType_ "Extension" Extension or Module
_author_ Email name of primary extension author
_version_ "1_0" Version as it should appear in the project path (e.g. 
+1_0)

_ExtensionPath_ => Extensions/Telegraph
_author_ => GrandFather@erewhon
_ExtensionSlnFile_ => Telegraph
_ExtensionType_ => Extension
_version_ => 1_0
_ExtensionFile_ => Telegraph
_MinVersion_ => 2.7
_ExtensionNameUI_ => Telegraph
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In reply to Utility to capture parameters and perform a task by GrandFather

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