MSP430FR2633: Captivate Design Center, how to Switch Workspace on macOS

Hi Gustavo

Do you want to open a exist project? 

What' the GUI likes like on your side?

Hi Gary
I want to move the workspace to a dropbox location, to be able to use the files from different computers.
The GUI looks like in the descriptions, but the menu item "Switch Workspace" is not there and if I, for instance, try to save a new project into dropbox, it does not work.
Also not, if I create a folder called "CapTIvateDesignCenter_1_83_00_08"
I guess it must be some file where I can change the standard location from this workspace, but I cannot find it.
Any hints?

Best regards,

Gustavo

You can change the workspace when you open click the "Project open" or "Project save as".

You can change it by click the "Change" button

Hi Gary,

this ist not working by me. Very strange.
"Save as" works to save for instance on the desktop:
It creates a folder with the project, but then, later, the program is unable to reopen the project. It does not see the folder again.
It only sees till "desktop", but not more.
The same occurs, when I try to save to the dropbox folder.

Please, tell me that there is somewhere a configurations file I can change. The interface does not seems to work properly on Mac.

I cannot test it on Windows right now.

Best regards,

Gustavo

gustavo zarba said:

the program is unable to reopen the project. It does not see the folder again.

It seems this software do not have right to write data into your PC, maybe you should running it with admin or choose a folder with write permission. 

Hi Gary,

this also does not work.

It seems that the macOS version has problems to do this.

By the new macOS-Version from Dropbox I have to save to the dropbox folder inside the library, which it works.

But the program cannot see inside this folder. So it saves a new project into the rooth of dropbox.

When I try to open it again, the program cannot find any file inside the dropbox folder. The option is simply blank. Nor even the folder it just created!

Things work fine in a Win10 PC, I just checked.

Again the question: Is there a file, where the captivate design center stores this information, that I can change?

Best regards,

Gustavo

Hi Gustavo,

Could you help to check if your mac meet the requirement below?

• Apple OS X 10.10.1+ with Java version 1.7+

Hi Gary,

My Mac is working with OS X 12.6.3 with Java 8- Update 361

As I said, all the permissions are granted, the program writes to the hard disk, but it cannot see the folder again, when I try to reopen the project.

regards,

Gustavo

Hi Gustavo,

Unfortunately, there are no configuration files for the GUI.  There may be something different about the Mac or some setting.

Try uninstalling, then re-installing the GUI.  Then can you sucessfully open any of the example projects?  If so make some change and save project, exit GUI, then launch GUI and see if you can open the modified example project.

You should find the examples in:

C:\ti\msp\CapTIvateDesignCenter_1.83.00.08\CapTIvateDesignCenter\example_projects\CaptivateDesignCenterWorkspace\TI_Examples

HiDennis,

thanks for taking care of this. What you are suggesting I tryed already without success.

As I statted, I can open the Ti.-Projects and I also can save my own project to a folder outside of the Workspace.

What I am unable to do is to reopen this new project, because the GUI cannot find the folder again. It does not matter where I save it. (Outside of the default workspace)

For a strange reason, I guess the GUI has trouble to go deeper into nested folders and remains in the first or second level. So it can save deep into the folders system, but it cannot see more than the first layer.

By mac are, indeed, many things different... But I have given the GUI all permissions and I am working as admin.

Am I really the only one having this problem?

Anyway, thanks for taking care.

Best regards,

Gustavo

Hi Gustavo,

You you say you tried same on Windows PC and no problem - correct?

This is the first I have heard this issue.  I know the GUI has been released since 2016 and I know many customers successfully using it.

Hi Dennis,

Yes, on a PC is no problem.

And no, I have performed an uninstall, downloaded a new install file, made a fresh install, opened a project, saved as in another folder, closed the GUI. The new folder exists (on the "home" directory, also the files inside, the GUI finds it, but I cannot reopen it. I get a blank screen on the GUI.

If, however I try to save to the library/cloudstorage/dropbox, as dropbox wants for the newer versions of mac, the GUI succeeds on saving the project, but cannot find it again. Too deep on the folder structure ?

2016 is a long time ago for macOS. Many things changed. I guess, the programmer needs to take a closer look using some newer OS. (I am not using the newest, Ventura, but the one before, Monterey.

By the way, I have the same experience on 2 different Macs.

I suppose, I will be forced to continue development on a PC.

But I would be glad to serve you as a test location, if you need some "victims" outside ;)

Thanks for the help!

Gustavo

gustavo zarba said:

Too deep on the folder structure ?

Here is the what we do in windows, if I save a project in a folder named A and named the project named as B. The GUI will create a B folder in A automatically. When you want to open it just open A and select B is enough, remember do not open B.

Hi Gary,

Yes, this works on Win and also on the root of my home directory on the Mac.

It does not work for dropbox on the library directory. And this is the only place where dropbox for Mac can be.

The GUI creates a folder on the dropboxfolder, saves the project, but it cannot see it again. It cannot see inside of the dropbox folder.

Apple recently changed the way to handle file structures. This could be the problem.