Twine 2.0.8 not working on OS X 10.10.4 (Yosemite)--blank window

kevinwc1969

Greetings!

I just downloaded Twine 2.0.8, and it doesn't seem to be working at all. When I run the app, I get a blank window--just the title bar and an empty white window, no buttons, no stories, no text, nothing. I ran 2.0.6 earlier this evening, and it seemed to be working fine (though I didn't open a story).

I'm on a MacBook Air running OS X 10.10.4. I've tried deleting and redownloading the app; rebooting the computer; deleting not just the app, but the Application Support, Preferences, and Saved Application State files in ~/Library... No luck. Each time I download and run the app, I get the same blank window.

As I write this, it just occurred to me to try dragging a Twine HTML file onto the blank window to see what happens. Result: the story plays in the window (as it would in a browser), but there's no way to edit it.

On the menu bar, I'm seeing Twine | Edit | Window; of course, now I can't remember whether that's the usual full set of menus or whether something is missing.

I guessing I've done something dumb, but I don't know what the issue is, so for the moment I can't use Twine at all...

Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks!

HerrAshmoo

I currently run OSX 10.10.4 on a 2010 MacBook Pro, and Twine 2.0.8 runs fine for me. Have you tried removing 2.0.6 completely? There's might be something residual hanging around somewhere?

kevinwc1969

As far as I can tell, I've completely removed 2.0.6. I'm glad to hear that it should be working; now I just have to figure out what's herky on my system that's causing it not to work...

klembot

Try pressing control-option-shift-D -- it ought to open a debug console that may have more info.

kevinwc1969

Chris, thank you! The debug window shows the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of undefined

There's a link to twine.js:6.

Please let me know if I can provide any other information that would be helpful--thanks!

klembot

I think you're hitting this bug: https://bitbucket.org/klembot/twinejs/issues/165/imports-of-story-archives-from-versions

It's been fixed, but I haven't done a release since yet. Try this in the meantime:

• Make a copy of your Twine folder in your user folder (in Documents or My Documents) and move it to a safe place. If this doesn't work, this will give you a backup you can work from.
• Look in the Stories folder of your Twine folder and open each file in a text editor.
• Do a find for:

  <tw-storydata
  

  Replace with:

  <tw-storydata ifid="xxxx"
  

• Save the resulting file in place.

This should work, but there may be easier ways of working around the problem that I'm not thinking of.

kevinwc1969

That fixed it! I was able to open Twine 2.0.8; I saw the welcome sequence, and now I'm able to use Twine as before-I can open and edit my existing stories, and I can create new ones.

Thanks!