Custom File Type in File -> New

Hi Milo,

See https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/using-file-templates.html#creating-new-files-from-template

Also, get familiar with the whole file templates feature: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/file-and-code-templates.html 

Hi Karol,

great, worked fine, thx. I extended and implemented the CreateFileFromTemplateAction:

public class ScpiFileCreateFromTemplate extends CreateFileFromTemplateAction
{
    public ScpiFileCreateFromTemplate()
    {
        super("SCPI File", "Creates new SCPI file", ScpiLangIcons.FILE);
    }

    @Override
    protected void buildDialog(@NotNull Project project, @NotNull PsiDirectory directory,
                               CreateFileFromTemplateDialog.Builder builder)
    {
        builder.setTitle("New SCPI File").
                addKind("SCPI", ScpiLangIcons.FILE, "Empty SCPI File.scpi");
    }

    @Override
    protected String getActionName(PsiDirectory directory,
                                   @NotNull String newName, String templateName) {
        return "Create New SCPI File: " + newName;
    }
}

and placed my template file into the plugin's resources folder:

src\main\resources\Empty SCPI File.scpi.ft

Is there a way to have this template file not directly in the src\main\resources, but in a sub-folder?

Milo

Looking at the documentation, it seems that they can be placed in `resources/fileTemplates` directory. Please review the documentation.

Sorry, you are right, the file must be in the sub-folder, e.g.:

src\main\resources\fileTemplates\Empty SCPI File.scpi.ft

It worked in my setup, because I also added the same template through the File -> New -> Edit File Templates...

I'd suggest to add one example of a template file path like mine above to the description here : https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/providing-file-templates.html#creating-file-templates

The theory description there is nice, but without a concrete example it's much harder to adopt it to a specific case.