[Gambas-user] directory structure development environment

[Steven Lobbezoo]

Great, that solves it for me.

Thanks,
Steven

Le mercredi 16 avril 2008 à 14:11 +0200, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> On mercredi 16 avril 2008, Steven Lobbezoo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Probably a stupid question ;-) , but anyway :
> >
> > In my application i have more and more sub programs that do some tasks
> > in the back-ground. These programs are developed each in it's own
> > directory (as I understood it, it's not possible otherwise). All of them
> > have some common routines like opening and accessing a database,
> > printing, accessing openoffice files, etc.
> >
> > Now, I can, of course, put those routines in a class or module, and each
> > time copie these to the current directory. However, thats a lot of work,
> > since each time i change something in them, i have to apply these
> > changes to all directories.
> >
> > Is there now way (apart from making a component) to have some 'central'
> > derectory where one could puut these modules/classes and them include
> > them into a program (like with javascript include statement).
> >
> > That would really be a lot of help in the development. Or maybe to make
> > a component that does NOT integrate into the gambas source tree ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Steven
> >
> 
> You can use symbolic links: when you add a new form, a new class and so on, 
> you have a check box in the dialog that allows you to specify that you want 
> to make a symbolic link instead of copying the file. 
> 
> You can do that by hand too.
> 
> This is rudimentary, but useful anyway.
> 
> You could share code by using a component too, but it is a little complex, and 
> the packager don't correctly deal with dependencies on user components at the 
> moment. I will try to fix that...
> 
> Regards,
>