Project templates — problem with subfolders

[bibsi]

Hi :-)
I’m working on a BasicApp, basically an application that provides the basics for a database
application.
Now I’d like to turn the current state into a template.
What I’ve done so far:
In Lazarus > Tools > Project Templates Settings, I created the default path:

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1. /home/lcb/bin/lazarus_fixes/config_lazarus/templates

I then saved my project using Project > Publish Project into this folder:

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1. /home/lcb/bin/lazarus_fixes/config_lazarus/tem plates/basicapp

After that, I created a text file in that folder called project.ini with the following content:

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1. [Variables]
2. [Project]
3. name=BasicApp
4. Recurse=1

After restarting Lazarus, I found a new entry under File called New Project from Template, and
my template was indeed listed there.
But I was a bit too early to celebrate.
The Recurse=1 entry does not do what I expected.
As I understand it, it should create the subfolders of my template and copy the files contained
in them.
Instead, I get the following error from Lazarus:

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1. Cannot find com ponent class "TFrame1".
2. It is not registered with RegisterClass and no .lfm file was found.
3. It is required by unit:
4. /home/lcb/lzProject/003.test/mainunit.pas

This happens because the subfolders are not created and the required files are missing.

Do you have any advice on how I can solve this?

Best regards,
Bibsi

I don't speak English, it's a translation. Sorry.

[n7800]

Thanks for reporting this. It turned out to be a bug in the package code, and I've already proposed a fix, which might be included in Lazarus 5.0.

[n7800]

If you'd like, you can also make a fix to your IDE's code. In the "components\projecttemplates\projecttemplates.pp" file, there are two "if Recurse then" checks, and below them, a call to FindFirstUTF8:
* Replace the second argument from "0" with "faDirectory".
* In the second case, replace the comparison "<>0" with "=0".

After that, rebuild the IDE using "Menu > Tools > Build Lazarus".

Or simply apply the patch, if that's more convenient for you.

[bibsi]

Thanks for your help, it worked.