Including a Lib inside a Lib

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Gareth Murfin

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Aug 2, 2016, 12:27:14 PM8/2/16
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Is it possible to have a lib inside another lib? The option for freshing libs seems to be ghosted out.

Steve Hannah

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Aug 2, 2016, 12:33:57 PM8/2/16
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If you want to develop a lib that depends on another lib, just add the "build/classes" of the "depended upon" library project to the classpath of the project's lib.

E.g.  If project A depends on project B, add B/build/classes to the classpath of A.

Steve

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Is it possible to have a lib inside another lib? The option for freshing libs seems to be ghosted out.

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Gareth Murfin

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Aug 2, 2016, 12:39:53 PM8/2/16
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Thanks a lot. Also since there is no statemachine in a cn1lib, how do you do things like createContainer? Can you actually have a lib with a theme in it, and gui forms etc? I want to bundle up my chat functionality into a lib, including screens etc. The it would be an extremely easy way for any app to add a chat room.


On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 12:33:57 AM UTC+8, Steve Hannah wrote:
If you want to develop a lib that depends on another lib, just add the "build/classes" of the "depended upon" library project to the classpath of the project's lib.

E.g.  If project A depends on project B, add B/build/classes to the classpath of A.

Steve
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Gareth Murfin <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to have a lib inside another lib? The option for freshing libs seems to be ghosted out.

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Steve Hannah

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Aug 2, 2016, 12:59:03 PM8/2/16
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The old GUIBuilder is not amenable to splitting things into modules - it uses a monolithic app structure.  Themes, however, can be packaged into cn1libs quite nicely, and the new GUI builder can also work in a modular way, since the generated form classes take a Resources object as a parameter.

However, my in my personal experience, many of these IDE features aren't easily available inside library projects.  Usually if I want to do something creative, I just use a regular application project, and then create a custom ANT script for packaging what I need into a cn1lib.  The format of a cn1lib is pretty straight forward, so it's pretty easy to just wrap whatever I want into it.

Steve

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Gareth Murfin <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot. Also since there is no statemachine in a cn1lib, how do you do things like createContainer? Can you actually have a lib with a theme in it, and gui forms etc? I want to bundle up my chat functionality into a lib, including screens etc. The it would be an extremely easy way for any app to add a chat room.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 12:33:57 AM UTC+8, Steve Hannah wrote:
If you want to develop a lib that depends on another lib, just add the "build/classes" of the "depended upon" library project to the classpath of the project's lib.

E.g.  If project A depends on project B, add B/build/classes to the classpath of A.

Steve
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Gareth Murfin <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to have a lib inside another lib? The option for freshing libs seems to be ghosted out.

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Gareth Murfin

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So  you or cant do createContainer? i just want to load up some stuff from my theme.res inside a lib.


On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 12:59:03 AM UTC+8, Steve Hannah wrote:
The old GUIBuilder is not amenable to splitting things into modules - it uses a monolithic app structure.  Themes, however, can be packaged into cn1libs quite nicely, and the new GUI builder can also work in a modular way, since the generated form classes take a Resources object as a parameter.

However, my in my personal experience, many of these IDE features aren't easily available inside library projects.  Usually if I want to do something creative, I just use a regular application project, and then create a custom ANT script for packaging what I need into a cn1lib.  The format of a cn1lib is pretty straight forward, so it's pretty easy to just wrap whatever I want into it.

Steve
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Gareth Murfin <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot. Also since there is no statemachine in a cn1lib, how do you do things like createContainer? Can you actually have a lib with a theme in it, and gui forms etc? I want to bundle up my chat functionality into a lib, including screens etc. The it would be an extremely easy way for any app to add a chat room.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 12:33:57 AM UTC+8, Steve Hannah wrote:
If you want to develop a lib that depends on another lib, just add the "build/classes" of the "depended upon" library project to the classpath of the project's lib.

E.g.  If project A depends on project B, add B/build/classes to the classpath of A.

Steve
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Gareth Murfin <gareth...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to have a lib inside another lib? The option for freshing libs seems to be ghosted out.

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Shai Almog

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Aug 5, 2016, 2:13:18 AM8/5/16
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No.

Gareth Murfin

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Aug 5, 2016, 8:46:43 AM8/5/16
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Im assuming if I move to the new gui builder I can do this? Otherwise it should be implemented.

On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 2:13:18 PM UTC+8, Shai Almog wrote:
No.

Shai Almog

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Aug 6, 2016, 1:23:31 AM8/6/16
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This can't be fixed in the old GUI builder conceptually. The new GUI builder might work, it's not something we tested but it doesn't have architectural limits.
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