[Gambas-user] Gambas2-2.5.0 can't find the example projects

[Scott Castaline]

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On samedi 19 avril 2008, Scott Castaline wrote:
>   
>> I have tried everything that I can think of, but I still cannot open any
>> of the example projects in gambas2-2.5.0. I started with rpm files from
>> LDRWEB.net for Fedora 8 (gambas2-2.5.0-1.FC8.ldrweb.i386.tgz). As I am
>> not fluent in Spanish I cannot find out anything about it. I found the
>> site while searching for answers to my problems in installing the
>> earlier version on Fedora 7, which I did get going using the files from
>> this site.
>>
>> I can operate all other features from the starting screen, but will get
>> an error when I click on any of the example projects:
>>
>> This project does not exist.
>> /usr/share/gambas2/examples/category of list/name of project.
>>
>> OK
>>
>> The projects do exist as I can find them where they should be. I
>> duplicated my Fedora 7/Gambas2-2.4.1 setup when I went to Fedora
>> 8/Gambas2-2.5.0. On both I created a group "gambas" putting myself as a
>> member of the group. I then had changed the group ownership of
>> /usr/share/gambas2 from root to gambas using the recursive option so all
>> subdirs would reflect the change. This setup works fine in the Fedora
>> 7/Gambas2-2.4.1 setup. Does anyone know why it doesn't in the Fedora
>> 8/Gambas2-2.5.0?
>>
>> I hate to be a PITA about this but I'm learning basic from scratch and
>> want to use these examples in the process.
>>
>> TIA
>> (PITA) Scott
>>
>>     
>
> The "this project does not exist" message is printer when the IDE cannot read 
> the file ".project" inside the project directory. So check first that 
> the ".project" files of the examples are correctly installed from the RPMs.
>
> Regards,
>
>   
In each project directory there is a projectname.gambas file, should it 
be projectname.project?