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

[Scott Castaline]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> 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?
>
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I had forgotten to mention that both old and new installs appear to be 
the same in the examples subdirs. So then I tried copying from the old 
to the new all files (eamples subdirs recursively and retaining the 
attributes from the old) since the old seems to work, but no change.