Using a finished project as a template

[pcs800]

I finished my first plugin and want to build two more that are nearly the same, just different images and samples.
Am I ok to use Save xml as... and give it the new plugins name?
Will this destroy anything I;'ve done on the first one?
Or should i grab all relevant files that need to be part of the installer, when I build it, and put them somewhere else so they don't get overwritten?

[d.healey]

@pcs800 A HISE project is the entire folder, so you need to duplicate the folder. You should only have one xml per project.

[pcs800]

@d-healey But can I not save xml as... to a different folder?

[d.healey]

@pcs800 The xml lives in the xml backups folder. You can save it somewhere else but it won't do any good.

[pcs800]

@d-healey Ok, so then duplicate the folder, and rename the xml file in the new one?

[d.healey]

@pcs800 There's more to it than that.

Duplicate the folder
Rename the XML
Open the XML in a text editor and replace every instance of the old name with the new one.
Open the UIData folder that is in the xml backups folder, in there you will find the UI xml, rename that one too.

[pcs800]

@d-healey Ok thanks

[d.healey]

I just remembered you'll also need to rename the default script folder.

Scripts >> ScriptProcessors rename the folder you find in here.

[pcs800]

@d-healey said in Using a finished project as a template:

Open the UIData folder that is in the xml backups folder, in there you will find the UI xml, rename that one too.

In this folder, this is what I see

Is this the file I need to rename?

[d.healey]

@pcs800 Yes

[bendurso]

@pcs800 said in Using a finished project as a template:

I finished my first plugin and want to build two more that are nearly the same, just different images and samples.

You might want to consider using expansions in the future. I recently decided to use them because many of my instruments shared a similar GUI, and it made more sense to use the expansions system

[pcs800]

@d-healey I renamed it Bassassin 4.xml and I get an error when opening the project.

[pcs800]

@pcs800 I also tried Bassassin 4Desktop.xml

[pcs800]

@pcs800 I will look into expansions, and many other aspects of Hise, once I get these three finished.
Most of the owrk was with the first one. if I can get the other two based off making a copy of the first one, then it's just a matter of importing samples.

[d.healey]

@pcs800 said in Using a finished project as a template:

@d-healey I renamed it Bassassin 4.xml and I get an error when opening the project.

Did you rename the folder in the Scripts folder with the new project name?

[pcs800]

@d-healey Yes I did

[d.healey]

@pcs800 Did you open the project XMLs and replace any references to the previous project name?

[pcs800]

@d-healey Yes,I did

[pcs800]

@d-healey Would you like to see the project?

[d.healey]

@pcs800 Yeah can do