How do we run Spiner

almost 8 years ago by John Blommers

I've downloaded Spiner from the GitHub repository but have no idea how to proceed from there. Could you offer some worked examples please?

almost 8 years ago by Mike RomboutAdmin

Unfortunately there hasn't been an official release yet. That means that there is no executable that you can run out of the box.

If you like I could try create an early executable that you can just double-click and run. What operating system are you using?

If you are a developer you can start the SpinerApplication class in the FrontEnd project.

almost 8 years ago by John Blommers

After exploring the file structure and attempting to install Spiner on Mac OS El Capitan the command line JAR file failed to build. But during the build, for all of maybe two seconds, a small Finder window appeared with a red icon in it. It was repeatable so I took a screencast and it was Spiner.app! So I ran the build again and deftly dragged Spiner.app out of that temporary Finder window. Now I have a working GUI. So for now I am good to go.

Now that you mentioned the FrontEnd project, LOL there in the distributions folder sit Frontend.app, FrontEnd-0.0.1.dmg and FrontEnd-0.0.1.pkg. I never looked there because of all the failure messages by the installer.

I'm not looking at Spiner as a developer, just as a guy interested in creating Interactive Fiction in ePub format. Keep up the good work!

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