In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, PJMonty wrote:

John,

[quote="John R."]Your looking from a viewpoint of what they "are", and how _you_ use them. I'm looking at what they "could" be, as _I_ could see using them. Nothing wrong with either viewpoint. Ultimately, Jon and the Parallax team will determine what they "should" be, and what way(s) they can or can't be used.[/quote]

Let me respectfully explain it this way - I am the programmer who has been maintaining and upgrading the SxKey IDE for the last 4 years, and I wrote the template support to provide exactly the functionality it has.  Ergo, while you may feel that there are multiple definitions of templates, [b]within the context of the SxKey IDE[/b] the definition I gave is currently "the" definition.  The definition of a template [b]in the SxKey IDE[/b] is a [i]piece of boilerplate code that applies to [b]all[/b] programs[/i].  It is not a program that has a specfic functionality.  A program with specific functionality is no longer considered a template - it's a program for a specific task.  If it helps clarify the intent of templates in the IDE, imagine that the word "generic" is applied in front of "template".

[list]Thanks,
PeterM[/list]

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