Project Problems

[Cat]

I'm attempting to figure out how having "Projects" is helping me...

Today's question: I have The Big Project that has 15 or so executable builds under it and 1 installation to wrap all those up. I was coding up a tool that I wasn't sure if I was going to include in The Big Project installation, so I wrote and built it in a different project. Now I've decided that putting it into The Big Project installation would make it easier for my users. Is there some way to copy the build parameters for the tool executable from its project over to The Big Project, so the tool build can easily be added to The Big Project installation? Or do I just need to make sure all the right files get put in the right place manually?

Cat

[jgcode]

I'm attempting to figure out how having "Projects" is helping me...

Today's question: I have The Big Project that has 15 or so executable builds under it and 1 installation to wrap all those up. I was coding up a tool that I wasn't sure if I was going to include in The Big Project installation, so I wrote and built it in a different project. Now I've decided that putting it into The Big Project installation would make it easier for my users. Is there some way to copy the build parameters for the tool executable from its project over to The Big Project, so the tool build can easily be added to The Big Project installation? Or do I just need to make sure all the right files get put in the right place manually?

Cat

The .lvproj file is xml, so it might be the easiest to cut and paste in a text editor.

Otherwise I am sure there must be a way you could read it out programmatically using property nodes and add it to your project. I would be interested to see your example if you go that way.

[Cat]

The .lvproj file is xml, so it might be the easiest to cut and paste in a text editor.

I can't seem to cut and paste without corrupting the file. I think I've copied the right chunk and put it in the right place, but it's not happy.

Otherwise I am sure there must be a way you could read it out programmatically using property nodes and add it to your project. I would be interested to see your example if you go that way.

If I had more than a couple hours to get all this code cleaned up and packaged, I'd definitely try it. At this point I'm adding files manually, but still hoping for something more elegant -- and hoping that doing it manually works. (Is there a "keeping my fingers crossed" emoticon?)