The lablist.txt file was put up so we could enable/disable some labs
to start off with (because some are not yet updated for J7). However,
I think this list is the right way to indicate which labs are
available anyway. So please add any new labs to this list.


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Tikkanz <[email protected]> wrote:
> The tables/tara addon comes with a lab that is available in J7 addons.
> However it seems that the automatic search for lab files in addon
> folders is currently disabled (probably until all labs have been
> tested under J7?).
> In the meantime I think including the lab file (*.ijt) in your addon's
> folder and then manually adding an entry to the
> ~addons/labs/labs/lablist.txt file should work (untested). (You will
> probably have to release a new version of the labs/labs addon to make
> sure that others have the change to lablist.txt).
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am wondering what is the convention for placing addon labs in the new j7
>> universe.
>>
>> In j6 lab files *.ijt could be placed in an addon's directory and they would
>> be found by the lab browser tool.  In j7 it looks like labs have to be under
>> the addons\labs\labs branch.  I see subdirectories for each lab category in
>> this directory. If I place the JOD labs in the general subdirectory here the
>> j7 lab browser finds and runs them.
>>
>> Should all addon labs go here or should the lab browser scan all the all
>> directories and pick up the *.ijt files like j6?
>>
>> Just looking through the addons subdirectories in j7 I don't see any addons
>> that come with labs. Have I missed something?
>>
>>
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>> John D. Baker
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