introducing template sketch with empty setup and loop functions. see #1138

app/src/processing/app/Base.java

@@ -652,7 +652,10 @@ public class Base {
 
     // Make an empty pde file
     File newbieFile = new File(newbieDir, newbieName + ".ino");
-    new FileOutputStream(newbieFile);  // create the file
+    if (!newbieFile.createNewFile()) {
+      throw new IOException();
+    }
+    FileUtils.copyFile(new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"), "TemplateSketch.ino"), newbieFile);
     return newbieFile.getAbsolutePath();
   }
 

app/src/processing/app/helpers/FileUtils.java

@@ -35,20 +35,12 @@ public class FileUtils {
     return false;
   }
 
-  public static void copy(File sourceFolder, File destFolder) throws IOException {
+  public static void copyFile(File source, File dest) throws IOException {
-    for (File file : sourceFolder.listFiles()) {
-      File destFile = new File(destFolder, file.getName());
-      if (file.isDirectory()) {
-        if (!destFile.mkdir()) {
-          throw new IOException("Unable to create folder: " + destFile);
-        }
-        copy(file, destFile);
-      } else {
     FileInputStream fis = null;
     FileOutputStream fos = null;
     try {
-          fis = new FileInputStream(file);
+      fis = new FileInputStream(source);
-          fos = new FileOutputStream(destFile);
+      fos = new FileOutputStream(dest);
       byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
       int readBytes = -1;
       while ((readBytes = fis.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) != -1) {
@@ -63,6 +55,18 @@ public class FileUtils {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  public static void copy(File sourceFolder, File destFolder) throws IOException {
+    for (File file : sourceFolder.listFiles()) {
+      File destFile = new File(destFolder, file.getName());
+      if (file.isDirectory()) {
+        if (!destFile.mkdir()) {
+          throw new IOException("Unable to create folder: " + destFile);
+        }
+        copy(file, destFile);
+      } else {
+        copyFile(file, destFile);
+      }
     }
   }
 

build/build.xml

@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
       <fileset dir="shared/examples" />
     </copy>
     
+    <!-- copy shared template -->
+    <copy file="shared/TemplateSketch.ino" todir="${target.path}/" />
+    
     <!-- Unzip documentation -->
     <unzip dest="${target.path}" src="shared/reference.zip" overwrite="false"/>
     

build/shared/TemplateSketch.ino

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+void setup() {
+  // put your setup code here, to run once:
+
+}
+
+void loop() {
+  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: 
+  
+}