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jchas5
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15 years ago

"welcome to loadUI" pop-up error

While using loadUI_1.5.1_SNAPSHOT (released 21/06/2011) upon initial execution, a "Welcome to loadUI" pop-up appears. It has helpful things like, 'view a demo movie', 'read the getting started tutorial', etc. At the bottom, the user can elect to 'not show this dialog again' by the checking the box next to the text. Even when the box is selected, when the user restart loadUI the dialog appears again. I have seen this behavior in previous versions.

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  • Hi,

    The setting to show this dialog is stored in the workspace file. How are you closing loadUI? It occurs to me that the reason for this setting not being stored may be that the workspace isn't saving, and that may be due to killing the loadUI process instead of doing a "clean" shutdown by closing the window. Are other changes saved to the workspace, such as adding Projects or Agents?

    Regards,
    Dain
    eviware.com
  • I close it a few different ways. Lately, I have been forced to 'force close" using the MAC OS X feature because the application seems to hang when I get a polling response error in one of my scripts:

    viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7789

    However if that does not occur, I will go to the loadUI menu and close loadUI that way. When I open the same version of loadUI again, I get the "Welcome" pop-up.

    To close the pop-up, I select "Don't show this dialog again" and click the "X" in the upper right corner. This does not appear to save the setting, neither does closing the dialog by selecting one of the other selections, i.e "View a demo movie", "Open a sample project", etc.

    What steps do you recommend to take to enable the "Don't show this dialog again" feature?

    -J
  • Hmm, not sure why this isn't working as it should. Can you check the workspace.xml file which is located in your .loadui directory (in the user home directory), and either check for the followign element:
    <con:property key="gui.getting_started_wizard">false</con:property>
    (you can do a search for getting_started_wizard to find it) and see if it exists, and if so, if the value is true or false. Manually setting this to false should prevent this popup from appearing.

    Regards,
    Dain
    eviware.com
  • I manually set the flag to false. The pop-up does not appear now. Not sure why that is not getting flagged when the check box is selected.