#1661 templates not working properly after 13855

[OktayO]

Hi everyone,
On windows 10 or 11.
Last working release was SVN 13855, since then the issue persists.

I'm having an issue with custom project templates in Code::Blocks. This happens with language types (C, C++, and ASM).
When creating a new project from a saved user template, Code::Blocks creates folders instead of the actual source files (e.g., a folder named main.cpp or main.asm).
Because of this, it throws an error message saying that not all files could be copied.
I have attached two screenshots showing the issue and the error message.
Is this a known bug, and how can I fix this so templates save and extract files correctly?

I have postet this in the forum but no reply yet:
https://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,26379.15.html

Thanks for your help!

[OktayO]

correcting link

[Terry Pascar]

Can confirm this. Happened while trying to save a user template created on 25.03 on a nightly rev 14050 (launched via CBLauncher).
Don't know why this happens but i can confirm it.

[Miguel Gimenez]

This is due to _T() removal, adding a char to a const char* does not concatenate them and wxFILE_SEP_PATH is a char. This affects other parts of the program still undetected.

All instances should be fixed in [r14057].

[Terry Pascar]

Thanks!
One question: Does this mean that we should add wxString to every string and not leave it as "" anymore? i thought via work logged in commits that _T() was removed and only "" was left

[OktayO]

thank you very much.
When will we be able to download the latest compiled nightly version?

[Miguel Gimenez]

The removal was mostly valid, but expression like 'X'+"text" will not evaluate as "Xtest", they need to be changed to 'X'+_T("test") or 'X'+wxString("test").

[OktayO]

Issue seems still to be there, if I did not do much mistakes while compiling 14057:

[OktayO]

update: meanwhile I figured out where the real problem is:

file sdk/templatemanager.cpp

line 180. Same requires to be done for the Saveusertemplate:

replace this

 if (!CreateDirRecursively(dst))
            Manager::Get()->GetLogManager()->DebugLog("Failed creating directory for " + dst);

with

wxFileName dstName(dst);

if (!CreateDirRecursively(dstName.GetPath()))
{
Manager::Get()->GetLogManager()->DebugLog(
    _T("Failed creating directory for ") + dstName.GetPath());
}

as I am not really familiar with SVN & Co, would be greate if someone could check my findings and implement permanently please?

Thanks
OktayO

[Terry Pascar]

I invite you to create a ticket here, assign the ticket to type "Patch" and submit the diff file from https://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,26405.msg179277/topicseen.html#msg179277

[OktayO]

Alright, thanks, this has been done and can be found here:
ticket #1663