OSX download - won't run for me in Mavericks

Hi, searched all over the place before bothering you all with my question. One lady has experienced the exact same problem, but some time ago (with no working solution) so I'll just explain again. My steps...

• Using the very latest version of osx 10.9.2, only this morning updated everything I could software update wise.
• Downloaded the osx version of Stencyl, Zip auto unzipped to my desktop
• Open folder, run Stencyl, loading screen comes and goes then I'm left with only 1 menu item "Stencyl"
• I click on preferences under Stencyl, then immediately I see the other menu items, File, View, Run etc. But they're all greyed out and unclickable. That's in, I can't do anything else.
• No errors in console

Looks like the program is booting fine, just something upsetting the final bit of launch or something. Any help appreciated. I've just come off the back of a big disappointment using GS for a few days only to realise the limitations with exporting to html5, so was relieved to find Stencyl, which looks to have the potential to be even better. But I can't even get this to load 

Where is the nightly build I keep seeing mentioned, is this worth a try?

Thanks!

Hello FiveForty,

Welcome to the forum.

* Nightly built is only available to paying customers!
* HTML5 export currently is not official possible
* Make sure that the installation path does not contain special characters (Even spaces could give problems)
* Please make sure you have the right requirements, 10.9 should be fine running natively not in virtual machine
 (java -version
java version "1.6.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)
)
 Also make sure that you don't have Haxe somewhere installed in your path.

Hope this helps!

Best regards from
M.E.

Thanks for the quick response.

Becoming a paying member is not a problem. In fact I had my sights set on the Indie membership as it claims to deliver the exact end goal I need, "Web & Desktop". But trying the application is obviously a must before I part with any money.

Your second point makes me nervous, as it's the exact same reason I had to abandon GS. Basically I need to create a single game that will run on mac/pc/ipad. So just a non flash game that I can host on a website so all 3 can access it.

Is this something I can achieve with Stencyl?

Thanks again.

The behavior you described looks like more an Mavericks / Java related problem. The IDE simply doesn't load properly.
Can you have a look at the Mac console (use spotlight to open "Console")  and watch what happens if you open Stencyl?

When it comes to your platform question, unfortunately HTML5 seems to me the only option to be, if you really don't want to support native applications.

Hi dripple, so I take it exporting to web html5 is not possible, on any level?  It's slightly possible in GS, but only in small dimensions and no sound in some browsers.

Thanks

Hi dripple, so I take it exporting to web html5 is not possible, on any level?  It's slightly possible in GS, but only in small dimensions and no sound in some browsers.

It IS possible, but depends on the game you're doing. You have to enable HTML5 on your own and you won't get support here

Have a look here, a rough comparison:
PowerPanic Technical Demo HTML5 | PowerPanic Technical Demo Flash

Sounds like the app isn't launching at all. My guess is that you have Java 7 or 8 installed, which are both incompatible with Stencyl.

To figure out what's wrong, you need to run Stencyl from the command line (Terminal). Open Terminal, cd to the Stencyl directory, then run java -jar sw.jar. Then show us what appears in Terminal.

It'd also be helpful to know what java -version says to confirm my suspicions.

Just to be extremely clear, HTML5 is a not an official target, and we do not support it at this time. Dripple is an advanced customer who understands its unofficial status and knows the limitations.

Is it possible that there's no Java at all?  The launcher starts, but that's it.
(I never tried to launch without Java installed, I assume there should be an error saying that you need Java Version X?)

OS X auto downloads and installs the JRE if it's not installed on any new Mac.

Although we never heard back from you and got the details, a customer reported something similar today, and we fixed the issue for 3.1.