Hi,

How a package (first-time installed) could know its physical location? Specifically the physical location of .lpk file.

The path is needed for a package that depends on external configuration/template files.
It would be nice, if the package could find the external files automatically, rather than asking the user to point to the package directory.

Having these initial configuration/template files as constants in the code is undesirable from maintenance point of view.

thanks,
Dmitry
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Do you mean, how can a package installed in the IDE find its lpk?

Mattias

I don't know if this applies to you, but, If you package depends of some packages that is distributed together with your package, Lazarus has a way to store the path of your package dependency.

The best regards,

Fabio

2016-07-28 4:53 GMT-03:00 Mattias Gaertner :

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Mattias Gaertner <

Lets say I've a package

packagedir/
./package.lpk
./package.sh
./package.pas
.
Package is introducing a button into IDE, that does something. On the press of the button I need to execute the script (package.sh). However, I cannot do that, unless I know the path to it. I need to know this path in run-time:

  pth := GetPackageDir('package'); // do the search by package name
  pth := IncludePathDelimiter(pth)+ 'package.sh';
  RunCommand('bash', pth);

thanks,
Dmitry
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[...] pth := GetPackageDir('package'); // do the search by package name

See here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Extending_the_IDE#Get_lpk_filename_of_an_installed_package

Mattias

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Mattias Gaertner <

Thank you! I couldn't ask for more!
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