Naracea 1.5.4

Now this is embarrassing. While finalizing updates to Twee plugin I did lot of testing to check whether everything is OK. However I forgot to test one important thing: malformed story!

There was a bug in the code which causes Twee plugin v1.5.3 to crash when Story view is open and you enter some incomplete or malformed links and passages.

It is fixed in 1.5.4.

Naracea 1.5.3

Yet another minor update.

Because I use Naracea mainly as a tool for writing interactive stories these days, I decided to include Twee plugin in .exe installation. Main reason is that Windows has problem with putting downloaded .dll files in Program files folder — it prevents execution by default, which is hard to explain and resolve. Having plugin in installer package solves this issue nicely.

While on it, I added simple diagram representation for Twine/Twee stories (using nice diagramming component from this series) and better handling of settings changes (now they mark branch/document as dirty).

Enjoy!

Release candidate for v1.0.0 almost ready

This is where we are with v1.0.0 release after recent bug hunt:

I’m quite sure there will be some more errors found as public RC will be released once I finish help, but I’m quite optimistic about finishing v1.0.0 in August, and releasing naracea in early September.

Good thing is that my original estimate of amount of work and time needed to productize the naracea was pretty accurate. This is one of the scary things about software development: polishing the product to make it ready for real world takes almost as much time as writing the code. It almost seems that program is 90% done for 90% of the time.

Well, hopefully there won’t be any major roadblocks and the work will proceed as smoothly as it did so far!