IDE, compiler problems

[DinyaZ]

Describe the bug
A tried to document a problem, which I ment before. See attached screenshots

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. I opened the IPAddress demo project, and try to add a form to it. It starts on 32bit.
2. On the first screenshot there are "rectangles" again
3. I add th Windows Form Contol, but it is not enough to start a form, error message comes (screenshot 2.). Is it possible to add theese necessary packages to the project, without messages?
4. Then I add the CustomControlsPackage also. (screenshot 3.) Below on the left side comes an yellow labeled short error message about a misterious connection which not works. I have got an automatic question about 64bit, to create something, ok lets go to 64, and it switched automatically to "win64"
5. The explorer page starts to do something, the little circle goes and goes around, it takes ca a minute. (screenshot 4)
6. And finally (screenshot 5) the IPAdress project disappeared, no form, no module. When I tried to push the File / Open file(?) Open folder(?) menuitem, then below and now on the right side come new and misterious error messages again, now "about file system".
   (I cant reproduce it again, because I have lost this demo project.)

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows7
• twinBASIC compiler version 0.14.1
  
  
  
  
  
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[WaynePhillipsEA]

1. I opened the IPAddress demo project, and try to add a form to it. It starts on 32bit.

At the moment it is usually easier to start with the Sample 1a as it already has the forms package referenced. We will be adding the forms package to all of the samples in time... but it is still in early stages development so please bear with us.

2. On the first screenshot there are "rectangles" again

I will get them fixed. It is due to the font you have selected in VS Code not supporting the fancy unicode characters used in some places.

3. I add th Windows Form Contol, but it is not enough to start a form, error message comes (screenshot 2.). Is it possible to add theese necessary packages to the project, without messages?

It is enough to just add the Windows Forms Control package, but you must close the Settings file and restart the compiler before you try to add forms.

4. Then I add the CustomControlsPackage also. (screenshot 3.) Below on the left side comes an yellow labeled short error message about a misterious connection which not works.

I have experience this also. It seems to only happen occasionally, and I haven't yet been able to debug it. Pressing the 'Compiler restart' button (shift + escape) corrects this problem for now.

4. I have got an automatic question about 64bit, to create something, ok lets go to 64, and it switched automatically to "win64"

I will ensure all of the samples have the Win64 configuration already created in them, for the next release.

6. And finally (screenshot 5) the IPAdress project disappeared, no form, no module.

In this screenshot you can see that the twinBASIC panel has not appeared. The twinBASIC extension has not been loaded by VS Code. This is a different problem that occurs sometimes when opening VS Code, and I haven't been able to repro whilst debugging yet.

Thanks for your report. These issues are being worked on :)

[WaynePhillipsEA]

In v0.14.18, the unicode arrows have now been replaced, fixing point 2.

[DinyaZ]

Thank you, Wayne!

[WaynePhillipsEA]

I think all the issues discussed here have since been fixed, so I'm going to close this now. Thanks for reporting.