Workshop report March 2019

Hello my patrons. Thank you for still sticking with us, although we still haven't been able to deliver release 4.1.0 of Genesis.

Genesis 4.1.0 is - for those of you new here or with a leaky memory :) - our first release after a major change in the applications system requirements and the way it is bundled. You can already download it. But while doing our last testing, we found it to be buggy when it comes to states after closing dialogs, especially the character creation dialog.

The reason for this is how new features found its way into the application, sometimes reinventing wheels, leading to several conflicting ways to close a dialog or leave a page. While trying to fix this, I had to surrender - the code lost it's maintainability.

I had a short discussion among the contributors, weighing the options to either try a quick hack for specifics problems (and by that worsen maintainability) or reimplement central functionality for the sake of less errors and better maintainability. As you can perhaps guess, we decided for the latter.

So, I am currently reworking central graphical user interface (GUI) code. This delays my actual plan, to redesign the Shadowrun generator (and provide an english language version), though I take the chance and combine the necessary code change with a Shadowrun redesign. Perhaps I can post some screenshots in a few days. Stay tuned.

Regards,
 Stefan