[VS 2005] Auto generated skeleton code

[cboard_member]

Is there any way to change it? Typically I change this:

int _tmain (int argc, TCHAR* argv[])
{
        return 0;
}

To this:

int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
        return 0;  // and I replace the tab in front of this with spaces
}

I just wondered if there's any way to specify what the skeleton code is?

EDIT: While I'm asking questions about 2005: Does anybody else get this weird problem where you type something and it takes like 3 seconds to appear in the editor? It only seems to happen after I've compiled and to get it back to normal I have to re-start VS.

[jwenting]

First: I never use generators, if I want some skeleton I just copy in one I created myself.
The skeleton you show has hidden code underneath which you don't see.
VC will use a launcher that's actually just wrapping the _tmain() in main() and converting the char* to a wchar_t*.

Second: Let it sit for a good while. Most likely it's generating the Intellisense database (and you should then get a message to that effect in the statusbar). Depending on project size and complexity this can take up to several hours. Small design fault in VC2005, in earlier versions it was lightning fast...

[cboard_member]

Yeah ok - thanks

[bithub]

It's actually a good idea to learn how to work with _tmain and TCHARs. This allows your program to be unicode compliant which will allow you to support multiple languages. It can take a little while to get used to, but in the end it's worth it. (Obviously this only works if your application is Windows only).

[cboard_member]

It's actually a good idea to learn how to work with _tmain and TCHARs. This allows your program to be unicode compliant which will allow you to support multiple languages. It can take a little while to get used to, but in the end it's worth it. (Obviously this only works if your application is Windows only).

Yeah I thought that might be the case but I often port projects to Linux / GCC.