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uliwitness / Stacksmith

An intuitive software erector kit targeted at people new to programming, but with enough potential to stay useful once they've learned, inspired by HyperCard.
http://stacksmith.org
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Can't create a new project #108

Open everythingability opened 3 years ago

everythingability commented 3 years ago

I do "File > New Project" and I get a blank window and nothing happens.

As a long shot I opened the msg window and tried "new stack" :-) no dice.

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uliwitness commented 3 years ago

Apologies for this bug. Are you using a release binary, or building yourself? A build from the development branch should make the "New Project" menu item create a new, empty project. If you're not building yourself, I can see if I can get a new build up.

I've been working on some core changes recently which will make all the UI implemented in Stacksmith itself, so it didn't seem worthwhile to fix the bug in the "new project" panel, particularly as it was less trivial than it looks (basically a change in system API behavior that's hard to work around without redoing the whole window).

uliwitness commented 3 years ago

A quick workaround for you would be to duplicate an existing project and edit it. For example if you right-click Stacksmith in Finder, choose Show Package Contents, then dig down to Stacksmith.app/Contents/Resources/Project Templates/Empty Stacks/Empty Project.xstk, you could duplicate that empty project file and use that as a basis for your own stack.

everythingability commented 3 years ago

I was using the release binary. Thanks!