Collection of Community Contributed B4X Templates

[aeric]

Before we have something new in the IDE, can we have a sub-forum or section for Collection of Community Contributed B4X Templates?

As per one of the topic being discussed during the Members Online Meeting on last Monday.

Suggestion to improve B4X IDE: User friendly templates for beginners to quick start a project.

[B4X] Projects Templates

This is a new feature. It is included in B4J v8.50 and B4i v6.80 (betas) and will be included in the next versions of B4A and B4R. This is a very simple and useful feature. When you create a new project, the project is created based on the chosen template. It is especially important for cross...

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Custom class templates in B4X

I always prefer to create libraries entirely in B4A without using Java. so I ask myself a question: It is possible to create Custom Class Templates without using Java, but creating a library entirely in B4A?

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p/s: I can't remember who, I have read a member have proposed this idea before.

 

[William Lancee]

I had never used project templates, but after the watching the meeting, I investigated.
It is so simply, it is almost counter-intuitive.

1. Make a bare-bones app that works (in any way you want).
2. Rename the files .b4j b4a b4i b4j.meta b4a.meta b4i.meta to $APPNAME$.and all the suffixes
3. Zip the project and rename as projectName.B4XTemplate
4. Add to additional libraries (B4X)

It will show up in the Open New dialogue

If you have something you automatically do every time, make it a template

 

[aeric]

Yes, by the way I usually don't add the meta files or remove them when I make the templates as the meta files only store the last accessed sub routines which shows on top of the IDE as shortcuts.

 

[William Lancee]

@aeric You're right about that. It isn't needed.

Kudos for your meeting initiative - I have done a few in my career, and I know that was hard work.

 

[mcqueccu]

Tutorial by Erel and Video by me on this thread

[B4X] Projects Templates

This is a new feature. It is included in B4J v8.50 and B4i v6.80 (betas) and will be included in the next versions of B4A and B4R. This is a very simple and useful feature. When you create a new project, the project is created based on the chosen template. It is especially important for cross...

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[Cableguy]

This is giving me an idea....

Some time ago.... wait, let me rephrase that....
"In an era long gone, when computers were still the size of a small family's car...."
Wait, not THAT long ago... lets say, about 10 years ago...
I managed a thread that listed all the B4A (it was the only IDE that existed at the time) user created libraries.
I was thinking, we could do something similar, and create a list for each IDE's User Created Templates, with a short description, and of course, credits to the author and link to the original thread.

What do you guys think?

 

[Erel]

Lets start with the libraries forum. You can add a thread prefix [project template]. If we see that it becomes a real thing then we can add a subforum.

 

[aeric]

a member have proposed this idea

I think is @ilan

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