Nightly Builds

We're pleased to announce the availability of nightly builds. These are bleeding edge releases that are automatically created. We're providing them to offer you the latest and greatest we have, and occasionally to deliver on-the-spot releases to verify bug fixes and new functionality.


The Builds

StencylWorks Nightly Build (Mac)

StencylWorks Nightly Build (Windows Installer)

StencylWorks Nightly Build (Linux)


Reporting Bugs

REPORT BUGS NORMALLY IN THE BUGS FORUM. DO NOT REPORT THEM IN THIS TOPIC. Please mention the day you downloaded your build if making a report.

The only issues you should report directly here should be things like - the installer doesn't work at all, files are obviously missing, the app doesn't launch and you got it from here, etc.


Disclaimer

Builds are provided for your convenience. Use them at your own risk and be aware that they contain the very latest, bleeding edge functionality and may be buggier than our official releases.

If you're working on any large games, back up your work before using a nightly build.

I assume for the installer build that we do NOT need to uninstall from Program files first. It would just overwrite all the existing files.

After invoking SW and hitting Help->About SW, I am still seeing Nightly Build (b9999). It would be nice if it can be date based so that we we know we are getting the latest version indeed.

That's something for Marck to add. We didn't promise a change to it this soon.

The autobuilt Windows installer should now be working. Let us know if it isn't.

I love this program, but the memory leak thing... it's really becoming an issue. I can't wait till we have the option to auto-update nightly builds, as I've had a few rage moments when stencyl decided that there were no more resources for it to use, much when my computer has said the contrary.

Any ETA on these updates?

You might find this page useful.
http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,5601.0.html

I love this program, but the memory leak thing... it's really becoming an issue. I can't wait till we have the option to auto-update nightly builds, as I've had a few rage moments when stencyl decided that there were no more resources for it to use, much when my computer has said the contrary.

Any ETA on these updates?

Note with the Nightly that closing resources will actually drop memory now (you don't stay in the 90% range anymore).  I haven't changed the 90% message yet.

Also note that the 90% warning can be triggered by a number of things - not necessarily leaks. Big enough games will hit the 90% mark even after opening. This is easy to solve by following my link and grabbing an executable with a higher memory threshold. We'll build this memory threshold setting in for 2.0.

Just a reminder to all that nightlies are very bleeding edge right now due to large code churn. Back up games before using them. You've been warned.

I'm maintaining the stable 1.3.x branch that the nightlies do not reflect - Mike (Legendary Hoamaru) is maintaining the nightlies, which reflect our work towards 2.0.

Events system going into nightly in a few minutes... It's in.

Posting some warnings now, do not update to the latest nightly if you are working on a mobile game.  You won't be able to test on the iOS side, although your game will load in SW correctly.  I'll edit this when iOS events are in.

If you want the latest nightly before the events system, you can grab that here:

Nightly Build Before Event System

You can't downgrade newer event blocks to an older version.  The usual 4 should be able to downgrade, but beware anyway.

Can you write up a few lines what this is about (it's benefit etc.) and how we should go about testing this? Or is there any document on this somewhere?

Is deleting blocks disabled? It seems that once I add a block, I can't delete it even when i delete the condition on the left side of the screen.

You can't delete event blocks, and you won't be able to drag blocks before the event condition is met in future versions.  For now it is a bug.

I guess I am really jumping the gun here, but all the new event blocks come up titled as 'Missing', with no settings shown. That's expected?

Thanks.

Not expected. Is anyone else seeing that?

(On that note, our thanks to those who are trying this out early on sight unseen. We'll provide an official announcement and explanation of events this week!)