No new passage created when I use " [[ " and " ]] ". Instead, a red cross appears.

Question

Hi everyone

I used to write stories using Twine a few years ago and then I stopped.
This week-end, I decide to start writing new stories with Twine.

Download and install the latest version (V 2.1.3 - 64 bits), start a new story, edit the first passage, write two choices using the double brackets, but no new passages are created.
Instead, a red cross seems to indicate an error (screenshots below).

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Did I miss something ? Is there a new way to do this ?

I looked at the wiki, the "How to", the latest tutorials I could find...
Didn't find anything to help me.

Could you tell me what's wrong ?
Thank you.

Sincerely yours.
Pierre

Answer 1

Did you use the black X in the Passage Editor's top (right) corner to exit from that editor? or did you just click outside that editor's dialog frame?

The Twine 2 application assumes you will use the first option to close an editor (like you would do with most desktop applications) and therefor the functionality that automatically creates missing Passages only triggers if you close the editor dialog that way.

If you are already using that method to close the editor dialog then which operating system (brand and version) are you running the Twine 2 application on?

Comments

You're right about cross working and clicking the overlay not working and everything, but I don't know that this is intentional. I'm pretty sure it's a bug in 2.1.3. There's in issue in the repository about it and its apparently been fixed, so I don't think it'll persist into the next release.

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It's less a bug and more of an unwanted side effect of end-users not following standard behaviours used with desktop based GUI software.

** I can't think of any other modal dialog based Single Document Interface (SDI) application that doesn't require people to use either an action button or the operating system level close-window button to close an open dialog.

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You're right. I just clicked outside the editor's dialog frame to close it.
I will be careful and use the black X in the Passage Editor's top corner, now.

Thank you (both of you) for your advices.

Pierre