[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:
>   
>> 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?
>>
>>     
>
> No, I'm talking about the ".project" file. If this file is not found, or not 
> readable, you get the "This project does not exist" error message. Otherwise, 
> you don't get it.
>
>   
where is the .project file supposed to be. I can't find it on either the 
old or new.