Generation Tab

This tab contains information about the available code generation options.

Here is the appearance of the Generation tab with default settings for a Build project:

The options available in this tab are as follows:

Attribute declarations

Local - All attributes (corresponding to widgets and items generated by EiffelBuild) are declared as local variables.
Exported - All attributes are declared in the body of generated classes, and are therefore exported and available to clients.
Export only named - Only those attributes that have been named are exported, while the others are declared as locals. In most situations, those widgets that are not named, have no further use except in the construction of the interface, while those named have been done so, as they will be used again.
Grouped - Should different objects of same type be declared individually, or grouped?

  button1: EV_BUTTON
  button2: EV_BUTTON
  button3: EV_BUTTON
or
   button1, button2, button3: EV_BUTTON

Generate debugging information

If selected, then for every feature connected to an event, code will be generated which outputs to the console, the name of the feature, and the values of all arguments.

Client of windows

If selected, then every generated class representing a window or dialog will use the window as a client. If not selected, the generated classes inherit the window classes directly.

Load constants from file

If selected, a file named "constants.txt" is generated, containing values of all String and Integer constants, with the generated system loading the values of its constants from this file. See constants for more information.