[Gambas-user] can't create a new project!

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 02:20, Allen Murphy wrote:
> When I run the IDE in the IDE, I do not get the error.  However, when I
> run it from the prompt (gambas2), I do get the error.
>
> My theory is that the installed version of gambas2 IDE cannot locate the
> template/FMain.class file.  To test this, I opened the IDE in the IDE
> and added the following lines to the beginning of the GetFile() (line
> 93) subroutine:
>
>   IF Exist(sPath) THEN
>     PRINT "GetFile: " & sPath
>   ELSE
>     PRINT "GetFile: Error in path - " & sPath
>   END IF
>
> When I run the project from the IDE, I get this output:
>
> GetFile: template/list
> GetFile: template/_project
> GetFile: template/_project
> ...
> GetFile: template/_directory
> GetFile: template/_directory
> ...
> GetFile: template/FMain.class
> GetFile: template/FMain.class
>
> and then the new project is created.  In other words, no error.
>
> I reinstalled my "edited version" of gambas2 and ran from the command
> prompt and then I get the following:
>
> GetFile: template/list
> GetFile: template/_project
> GetFile: template/_project
> ...
> GetFile: template/_directory
> GetFile: template/_directory
> ...
> GetFile: Error in path - template/FMain.class
>
> The the error dialog is displayed.  Apparently this file does not exist?
> Perhaps the template files are not being installed correctly with "make
> install"??  Hope this helps!
>
> Allen
>

Bingo! I am plain stupid :-)

The archiver (the program that makes executables) don't pack *.class, 
*.module, *.form files. It should do that only when they are at the root of 
the project directory...

Now I see that this design is painful. Source files should be put in their own 
hidden directory in the project. 

Note that with this new design, old projects won't be usable anymore. But I 
think I have to do that now!

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini