Sigil-0.9.7 Released

[draknan]

I got this error:



http://imgur.com/fYDrmwO

[KevinH]

It means your system is missing the latest C++ runtime library. There is an official installer for this available directly from Microsoft:

Google for:

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (64-bit)

Or

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (32-bit)

And download only from an official Microsoft website.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by draknan

I got this error:

Sounds like the VS2015 runtime did not install for you. That should be a part of the normal Sigil install if it's not found on your system. What version of windows are you using?

Also, did you try reinstalling Sigil like the message suggested?

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

@graycyn: I would definitely uninstall the old version first. Even though you could technically have two versions on the same machine, they would share the same preferences. It's possible that a version that old might store its prefs somewhere else--I just don't know. I'm not even certain the old preferences would be compatible with the newer version. I'd be tempted to delete the old preferences and start from scratch, myself.

But for now, I say just uninstall the old version and install the new. If there's issues, we can deal with them then.

Where should I be looking for the old preferences to delete them? I think starting from scratch is probably best. Even if I have a new learning curve, I suppose it'll keep the old brain active!

Edited: One more thing, I downloaded a Flight Crew plugin for the new Sigil, how do I install that?

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[Nando Sandiego]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I've had that happen before (even with earlier versions of Sigil) with various plugins, but it never stayed that way. I'm not experiencing the problem right now, though. The Smarten Punctuation gui is coming up normal for me with v0.9.7 on Windows and Linux.

Maybe it is a OS X related issue? I'm using SmartenPunctuation v0.3.2 and OS X 10.12.0. I did not have the issue with Sigil v0.9.6.

The other changed behavior I noted is that command-A (⌘-A) to select all to smarten quotes for all html-type files no longer works.

[draknan]

I reinstalled Visual C++ runtimes, and it worked, thanks KevinH and DiapDealer.

Now the icons seems bigger and blurish:



Up the new, down the old ones.

¿Is there a way to get the old ones back?

Thank you.

[DiapDealer]

They may be a little bigger, but they're certainly not blurry at all. And no, there's no way to get the old ones back.

You can tweak the size, though. Create an environment variable called SIGIL_ICON_SCALE_FACTOR and set it to about 1.8, or so (values from 1.0 to 3.0).

[alecE]

Running Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Uninstalled 0.9.5, began installation of 0.9.7. All went well, then got a 100% progress bar plus the message saying "Checking for VS 2015 Runtime...", followed by a second window saying "MS Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) - 14.0.24210", also with a 100% progress bar.

At this point there was no evidence of any activity; decided the install was going nowhere after two and a half hours and hit Cancel. Whereupon the install appeared to finish normally. Trying to run Sigil failed because a dll was missing. Reinstallation took approx 10 seconds, running Sigil failed again with the same message.

Both times, Sigil was started from its icon, not from within Calibre.

Uninstalled Sigil 0.9.7 and re-installed 0.9.5, which appears to be running perfectly.

Problem with Sigil or problem with Microsoft?

EDIT
Definitely one of those days where the thought of a life without Microsoft seems attractive.

Following info in other posts, I tried to install Visual C++ redistributable 2015 after downloading it from MS. First attempt failed 'cos the previous attempt via Sigil was still in evidence. Uninstalled both versions (14.0.24210 & 14.0.24215) and tried again. The installation hung. Uninstalled the failed install and decided I can live without it pro tem.

[JustinThought]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Sounds like the VS2015 runtime did not install for you. That should be a part of the normal Sigil install if it's not found on your system. What version of windows are you using?

Also, did you try reinstalling Sigil like the message suggested?

It appears that Visual Studio runtime is a very jealous program--it doesn't want to install on top of previous versions. I'm not sure if that is exactly the problem, though. I did uninstall the 6 or so previous versions that were hanging around on my laptop, but still got an error while installing the vc_redist.x64.exe file. I finally solved all the problems by downloading and installing SP-1, then reinstalling the update, and now have a running Sigil 0.9.7.

I'm just posting my personal experience in case it might help others.

Thank you for this update!

edit: So I went to install the update on my desktop, where I do all my significant work, and found I had a couple of MS C++ runtimes for 2005, same for 2008, also -10, and three dated 2013, so while I was uninstalling my previous version of Sigil, I killed those as well. Rebooted just for the sake of form, then went to install the Sigil update, and it said it was installing the runtime, but when I ran Sigil, I received the same message shown above. Went to install the vc update package, and got the same "Unspecified error" I received here. So, I'm installing the SP-1 for Windows 7, same as I did on this laptop, and expect to get the same success.

So I can absolutely, positively say that maybe you need at least SP-1 installed to make this update work.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JustinThought

It appears that Visual Studio runtime is a very jealous program--it doesn't want to install on top of previous versions.

That's as it should be, actually (well sort of). The 2015 vc++ runtime will not overwrite a newer version of itself if present. It will (or should) install over previous versions. At least that's the way Microsoft says it supposed to work.

The Sigil installer tests to to see if the version of the 2015 runtime included is already installed. If it is, no attempt to install the 2015 vc++ runtime will be made. If a newer version of the 2015 vc++ runtime is already installed, the installer included with Sigil will launch, but should silently fail.

If that's not what's happening, I'll have to do some investigation.

Originally Posted by JustinThought

I did uninstall the 6 or so previous versions that were hanging around on my laptop,

Since there hasn't been more than 3 or so versions of the 2015 vc++ runtime released (version 14.xxx). I'm going to assume you uninstalled earlier editions of MS's runtime (v12, 11, etc...). That's not a good idea. You may have programs installed which rely on those others. It's common for the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 runtimes to be Installed on the same machine, in fact, it's quite necessary depending on the applications installed.

[JustinThought]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Since there hasn't been more than 3 or so versions of the 2015 vc++ runtime released (version 14.xxx). I'm going to assume you uninstalled earlier editions of MS's runtime (v12, 11, etc...). That's not a good idea. You may have programs installed which rely on those others. It's common for the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 runtimes to be Installed on the same machine, in fact, it's quite necessary depending on the applications installed.

Oops. Well, I guess I'll just deal with any problems that come up as they occur.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by graycyn

Where should I be looking for the old preferences to delete them? I think starting from scratch is probably best. Even if I have a new learning curve, I suppose it'll keep the old brain active!

The preferences are in your user's AppData/Local/sigil-ebook/sigil folder. But the AppData folder is often hidden from users. The easiest way to remove the older preferences would probably be:

1) Launch Sigil
2) From the menu, go to Edit->Preferences
3) On the Preferences dialog there will be a "Open Preferences Location" button. Click it.
4) Now that you have the folder open in a Windows file browser, close the Preferences dialog and close Sigil. You should be left with the Preferences folder open (if you don't see a "sigil.ini" file you're in the wrong place)
5) Once you verify you're looking at the right folder (contains "sigil.ini") Delete the files/subfolders you see in that "sigil" folder.
6) Relaunch Sigil.

Originally Posted by graycyn

Edited: One more thing, I downloaded a Flight Crew plugin for the new Sigil, how do I install that?

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From Sigil's menu,
1) go to Plugins->Manage Plugins
2) make sure the "Use Bundled Python" checkbox is checked
3) click the "Add Plugin" button on the left and browse to the FlightCrew plugin's zip-file you downloaded, highlight it, and click open

When you want to run Flight Crew, you can click Plugins->Validation->Flightcrew. You can also assign the plugin to one of the three plugin shortcut buttons on the main menu via the Manage Plugins dialog.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JustinThought

Oops. Well, I guess I'll just deal with any problems that come up as they occur.

Yes. You should be able to download the older runtimes pretty easily, should you find you still need them (and I'm guessing you will at some point).

Originally Posted by JustinThought

So I can absolutely, positively say that maybe you need at least SP-1 installed to make this update work.

That could be. My development environment is Windows 7 SP1. I guess it just never occurred to me that people would still be running Windows 7 without SP1. It's been out forever.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by alecE

Running Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Uninstalled 0.9.5, began installation of 0.9.7. All went well, then got a 100% progress bar plus the message saying "Checking for VS 2015 Runtime...", followed by a second window saying "MS Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) - 14.0.24210", also with a 100% progress bar.

At this point there was no evidence of any activity; decided the install was going nowhere after two and a half hours and hit Cancel. Whereupon the install appeared to finish normally. Trying to run Sigil failed because a dll was missing. Reinstallation took approx 10 seconds, running Sigil failed again with the same message.

Both times, Sigil was started from its icon, not from within Calibre.

Uninstalled Sigil 0.9.7 and re-installed 0.9.5, which appears to be running perfectly.

Problem with Sigil or problem with Microsoft?

EDIT
Definitely one of those days where the thought of a life without Microsoft seems attractive.

Following info in other posts, I tried to install Visual C++ redistributable 2015 after downloading it from MS. First attempt failed 'cos the previous attempt via Sigil was still in evidence. Uninstalled both versions (14.0.24210 & 14.0.24215) and tried again. The installation hung. Uninstalled the failed install and decided I can live without it pro tem.

I recommend looking for "MS Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) - 14.0.24210" in Add/Remove programs and removing it, if found. Then download and install the official one from Microsoft:

Google for:

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (64-bit)

Or

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (32-bit)

And download only from an official Microsoft website.

Evidence is pointing toward needing SP1 for Windows 7 to install the latest MS Visual C++ 2015 Redistributables (and thus this version of Sigil that includes it).

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Nando Sandiego

Maybe it is a OS X related issue? I'm using SmartenPunctuation v0.3.2 and OS X 10.12.0. I did not have the issue with Sigil v0.9.6.

The other changed behavior I noted is that command-A (⌘-A) to select all to smarten quotes for all html-type files no longer works.

I did hear someone else mention that some plugin Tk dialogs popped up under everything else. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac machine to test/debug on. Perhaps another Mac user can chime in.

The Select All keyboard-command not working with the Tk widget sounds like possibly a Tk quirk to me (Sigil 0.9.7 moved to a newer version of Python and Tk). There's probably not much to be done from our end, but I'll look into it. Is there no way on a Mac to highlight the first entry in the list widget, then hold a specific key while clicking the last entry to highlight them all?