Adds the IDE's Starting and Troubleshooting chapters, its Reference pass and tour, and a Friend page, and stops tool IDEs saving settings or reporting errors. by KubaO · Pull Request #260 · twinbasic/documentation

BUGS-TO-REPORT: thirteen defects from the Starting a project trials on BETA 1034, among them the next project opened taking an earlier project's whole Settings (a silent loss once saved), Save over…

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IDE: the Starting a project chapter (five pages under /tB/IDE/Starting/, New Project and Splash Screen absorbed with their URLs redirected), nine callouts on its queued defects, 14 SHOT markers; co…

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WIP.Harness: --no-save-ide-settings is read after the first-run questions, so a test or shot that makes a first run blocks every SaveIDESetting in a proxy in front of the defaults hook

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IDE Starting chapter: its 14 pictures in both themes and as SVG (two native boxes in one), setups starting, starting-first-run, starting-new and starting-boxes, a guard for the first-run dialogs th…

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BUGS-TO-REPORT: Cancel in New Project Options of an import leaves the next box drawn as an import, and its Continue makes a project with no WinNativeCommonCtls reference and the template's title (t…

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WIP: nothing writes outside the cloned repository and the temp folder (owner); tbbroker's install is the one exception, and the C:/probe examples become temp paths

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shoot_docs: a picture whose two themes show different text fails (themeTextDifference, read at capture from the DOM), which found IDE.light missing its panels, retaken; its projects move from C:\tb…

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Starting a project: a shorter See Also line, so the landing page's last bullet no longer takes a page of the book to itself

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No error report leaves a tool's IDE: with the machine's agreement, a native exception such as a crash reproducer's posted one to twinbasic.com/notify; the defaults hook now answers ALLOWERRORREPORT…

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BUGS-TO-REPORT: ten defects from the Troubleshooting trials on BETA 1034, among them a failed Save As still moving the project, Start in Safe Mode never ending and a linked package's missing file g…

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IDE: the When something goes wrong chapter (four pages under /tB/IDE/Troubleshooting/), eleven callouts, 8 SHOT markers; the Status Bar and the Help menu's other entries written, Running's compile …

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Two See Also lines that each took a page of the book to themselves go; the book is 3,628 pages, with the Starting and When something goes wrong chapters checked in it

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IDE: the When something goes wrong chapter's 8 pictures, in both themes and as SVG with one native box, setups troubleshooting and troubleshooting-box, a closing hook for what only a setup's page c…

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IDE: the Reference pass and the tour; every IDE page is in the book, 3,674 pages. A keyboard shortcut table generated by ide_js.mjs keymap replaces the JSON dump, Toolbar's list of labels and the A…

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IDE: the tour opens on a labelled picture of the window with a project open, in both themes and as SVG, setup tour; the empty window moves to First Launch

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Screenshots retaken on BETA 1034: 59 pictures changed, 1 taken by review, 2 kept at HEAD by review; 50 SVGs written (1 by review)

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IDE: Samples says what each of the 26 samples shows, from its source, and what it needs before it runs; Running and Project Settings correct what Start does with no startup object on BETA 1034

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BUGS-TO-REPORT: four defects found checking the Samples page on BETA 1034, among them the completion row with lazy index 0, never asked for, which is what failed the e2a65dfe shot; shoot_docs now a…

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IDE: NOTEs for Start with no Main and for a DLL that names no startup object on Running, and for the completion row that never gets its type on IntelliSense; the book is 3,677 pages

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The private scratch folder is .claude/scratch, no longer .claude/tooling-review-scratch: the notes and two filed reports follow it

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Adds the IDE's Starting and Troubleshooting chapters, its Reference pass and tour, and a Friend page, and stops tool IDEs saving settings or reporting errors. - #260

Adds the IDE's Starting and Troubleshooting chapters, its Reference pass and tour, and a Friend page, and stops tool IDEs saving settings or reporting errors.#260
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Commits on Nov 3, 2026

Every tool's IDE drops its saves of the keys the defaults hook answers: BETA 1034 tests --no-save-ide-settings before neither OBJECT_BROWSER's nor NEWFRONTPAGE's, so a lane that closed the New / Op…

Commits on Nov 4, 2026

BUGS-TO-REPORT: thirteen defects from the Starting a project trials on BETA 1034, among them the next project opened taking an earlier project's whole Settings (a silent loss once saved), Save over…

IDE: the Starting a project chapter (five pages under /tB/IDE/Starting/, New Project and Splash Screen absorbed with their URLs redirected), nine callouts on its queued defects, 14 SHOT markers; co…

WIP.Harness: --no-save-ide-settings is read after the first-run questions, so a test or shot that makes a first run blocks every SaveIDESetting in a proxy in front of the defaults hook

IDE Starting chapter: its 14 pictures in both themes and as SVG (two native boxes in one), setups starting, starting-first-run, starting-new and starting-boxes, a guard for the first-run dialogs th…

BUGS-TO-REPORT: Cancel in New Project Options of an import leaves the next box drawn as an import, and its Continue makes a project with no WinNativeCommonCtls reference and the template's title (t…

WIP: nothing writes outside the cloned repository and the temp folder (owner); tbbroker's install is the one exception, and the C:/probe examples become temp paths

shoot_docs: a picture whose two themes show different text fails (themeTextDifference, read at capture from the DOM), which found IDE.light missing its panels, retaken; its projects move from C:\tb…

Starting a project: a shorter See Also line, so the landing page's last bullet no longer takes a page of the book to itself

No error report leaves a tool's IDE: with the machine's agreement, a native exception such as a crash reproducer's posted one to twinbasic.com/notify; the defaults hook now answers ALLOWERRORREPORT…

BUGS-TO-REPORT: ten defects from the Troubleshooting trials on BETA 1034, among them a failed Save As still moving the project, Start in Safe Mode never ending and a linked package's missing file g…

IDE: the When something goes wrong chapter (four pages under /tB/IDE/Troubleshooting/), eleven callouts, 8 SHOT markers; the Status Bar and the Help menu's other entries written, Running's compile …

Two See Also lines that each took a page of the book to themselves go; the book is 3,628 pages, with the Starting and When something goes wrong chapters checked in it

IDE: the When something goes wrong chapter's 8 pictures, in both themes and as SVG with one native box, setups troubleshooting and troubleshooting-box, a closing hook for what only a setup's page c…

IDE: the Reference pass and the tour; every IDE page is in the book, 3,674 pages. A keyboard shortcut table generated by ide_js.mjs keymap replaces the JSON dump, Toolbar's list of labels and the A…

IDE: the tour opens on a labelled picture of the window with a project open, in both themes and as SVG, setup tour; the empty window moves to First Launch

Screenshots retaken on BETA 1034: 59 pictures changed, 1 taken by review, 2 kept at HEAD by review; 50 SVGs written (1 by review)

IDE: Samples says what each of the 26 samples shows, from its source, and what it needs before it runs; Running and Project Settings correct what Start does with no startup object on BETA 1034

BUGS-TO-REPORT: four defects found checking the Samples page on BETA 1034, among them the completion row with lazy index 0, never asked for, which is what failed the e2a65dfe shot; shoot_docs now a…

IDE: NOTEs for Start with no Main and for a DLL that names no startup object on Running, and for the completion row that never gets its type on IntelliSense; the book is 3,677 pages

The private scratch folder is .claude/scratch, no longer .claude/tooling-review-scratch: the notes and two filed reports follow it

Commits on Nov 5, 2026

WIP.Screenshots: an image taken from the files under ide/ counts as reached the way the IDE reaches it; what the DOM holds must be captured

Friend gets a page of its own: where it is allowed, what it hides and what it does not, checked against VB6; the Sub, Function and Property pages no longer say it cannot be late bound; BUGS-TO-REPO…

BUGS-TO-REPORT: the Delegate entry is captured in existing #2001, its report and reproducer now under bugs/filed/

Wisdom: export now reaches #releases, threads under text channels and forum posts nobody answered; extract reads text channels month by month; a thread read with no findings is recorded and is not …

Wisdom: an agent has Bash, so it is read-only by its instructions alone, and the workflow's comment says so; WIP.Wisdom says how to run a batch and to read git status after it

Wisdom: staging.md takes 299 additions from 322 threads and months: 269 new sections, 30 replaced

Type and UDTs: a Type_Conversion of an array element ends as a member call on it does, Type_Initialize does not run for elements or UDT members though Type_Terminate does, and two conversions with …