Re: Extending existing Project Types - but not all of them

Hi Geertjan,

That sounds interesting! I`ll try it!

Nico


> Am 25.04.2016 um 12:48 schrieb geertjan wielenga <[email protected]>:
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> You could add a BluePrints panel to the Project Properties dialog of the WebClient project with a checkbox. When that checkbox is checked, the files or nodes or whatever it is, is added to the project -- but not to all other projects. Just to the current project where the checkbox has been checked.
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> Many features work like that, e.g., Groovy support has a checkbox which, when checked, adds content to the build script, adds a Groovy file, etc.
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> Gj
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> On 25-4-2016 12:38, Nico Krebs wrote:
>> hi benno,
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>> Thank you for your quick reply, i would like to have both project types avaiable in the new project wizard: html5 project and my SpecialWebProject. 
>> Already thought about using the layer file but i don`t know yet, how to do this. Though, tediousness is a good thing! 
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>> Is there a sample or some other hints available on the web, what should i read?
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>> greetz, Nico
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>>> Am 25.04.2016 um 08:44 schrieb markiewb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
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>>> Hej Nico,
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>>> How about duplicating the relevant layer.xml configurations for your project type from the original project type? It may be tedious, but a doable. Once you found out all the relevant places to copy from, you can write a unit/integration test to check, whether your configuration is up to date to the platform configuration.
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>>> Or perhaps it is possible to hide the original project type from the “new project” wizard?
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>>> Greetings, Benno
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>>> Från: Nico Krebs <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> Skickat: Sonntag, 24. April 2016 12:45
>>> Till: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> Ämne: [platform-dev] Extending existing Project Types - but not all of them
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I have a folder containing some HTML/CSS/JS-Files.
>>> To treat this folder as a separate project type, I extended existing project types like webclient project which already support everything i want for my new Project Type (refactoring, js unit testing support, etc.)
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>>> When i extend that webclient project type with some nodes or option panels, all webclient projects will have those extensions.
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>>> This is not intended. i would rather take the webclient project and redefine it under another name, looking for a special file i would put into the project folder. 
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>>> I could just copy and modify the webclient project`s code but this seems to be a little too much for the task and i would miss all the updates or would have to merge them into the repo manually.
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>>> Is it possibe to re-use an existing project and not influence the behaviour of the original project type - without making a copy of the webclient project?
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>>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>> Nico
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