My Components are gone help

[Rosace_Pony]

I'm using HISE 2.0 on Windows 10 (i'm using the version from the .msi installer on github)

i use HISE as a vst inside Studio One

so usually when i work i always do an archive save(CTRL+S) and a save as XML

my problem is i removed HISE from my track and added it back, but all my components and stuff from the canvas is gone (maybe hidden?) i still have my scripts and samplers(the round robin was set back to 1 too instead of 6)

did i messed up with something? any idea if i can get my UI back or i have to redo everything, also what would be a good way to work with HISE?

[d.healey]

HISE 2.0 is ancient. You should use a newer version, I recommend you build this branch - https://github.com/davidhealey/HISE/tree/scriptnode

[Rosace_Pony]

@d-healey Alright i'm gonna build it,'ive seen you've made a tutorial to build it i'm gonna follow it

[d.healey]

@Lorrislehorse The IPP part of the tutorial is out of date, I recommend you build without IPP for the time being.

[Rosace_Pony]

@d-healey It is ok if i have Visual Studio 2019?

[d.healey]

@Lorrislehorse I don't think so, pretty sure 2017 is the newest that will work, but you can try it and see.

[Rosace_Pony]

@d-healey i'm gonna install 2017 to not break anything and be sure it works

[Rosace_Pony]

@d-healey
I've finally build HISE 2.1 and now i'm running the standalone version

i have opened my project but i still can't see the Canvas

i t look like this, like there is no root in the component list

EDIT: i've made a new project and i can see the "root" in the component list

i guess i have broke something by using the project in hise 2.0 inside studi one and it seems importing it in HISE 2.1 didn't fixed it, thats my though might be wrong

[orange]

@Lorrislehorse Have you tried File > Open Recent Archive ?

[Lindon]

@Lorrislehorse - so nothing will show up if it bumps into an error before it renders... look in the console below your code...see all those lines in red - fix them:

It's looking for a component called "name", possibly even "name " given the output, use Find to locate the line where you are asking for this component...then fix it

[d.healey]

The looking for a component with name error is weird because it's not showing the name of the component it's looking for.

Do you remember when you posted that snippet yesterday and I said you have a more interesting error, it couldn't find a component? Well I was loading your HISE 2.0 snippet into HISE 2.1

Now you've upgraded to HISE 2.1 and you're loading a HISE 2.0 project and getting similar errors. This leads me to believe there is a UI data incompatibility between the two HISE versions.

Probably the quickest solution is to rebuild your UI in the new version of HISE, you can reuse your existing script of course.

[Lindon]

@d-healey yeah it looks like its looking for an unnamed component...theres a space there in the error message...

[Rosace_Pony]

@d-healey Yep that's what i did, i've remade my UI in a new 2.1 project using my old script

[ospfeigrp]

i am having this problem just now with 2.1.0 the thing is i created the project in the same version = 2.1.0 the plugin
it's almost like it can't remeber the custom named components for example a ScriptButton renamed to just "button".
this seem to still be a problem any solution. Opening recent archives return the same problem

[d.healey]

@ospfeigrp Did you save your project as XML?

[ospfeigrp]

@d-healey yes i did using the old one not the one that says "not working"

[d.healey]

@ospfeigrp Take your UI data xml and run it through an xml validator, you can also do the same with the project xml.

I use this one:
https://www.xmlvalidation.com/

Here's a video demo (don't forget to subscribe ;) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiVCi4vMZY

[ospfeigrp]

@d-healey no errors found ..hmm
this is obviously going to happen because it has no reference to the renaming in xml,if i leave the components as the default generated names it's saves fine.

[d.healey]

@ospfeigrp Which branch of HISE did you build?

[ospfeigrp]

@d-healey scriptnode this is the plugin version and have removed all older builds, it does actually have the naming convention in the ui xml and that seems to fail with errors

<Component type="ScriptButton" id="presetsbtn" x="889" y="18" width="30"
             height="30" filmstripImage="{PROJECT_FOLDER}presetsbtn.png" 
="Enabled"/>