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Currently trying and checking out Levure. So far I am really impressed,
this seems to be a remarkable and very valuable piece of work.
The problem I have on Mac OS is whenever I try to load the sample application
into the IDE an error dialog pops up telling me that an error occurred while
initialising the application “[unable to load external preferences]”.
This is with the latest release (DP8) of LC 9.0.0. Tried DP5 and initialising worked as expected.
So, can anybody confirm that the preferences external is currently not compatible with LC 9.0.0 DP8?

I can confirm the external does not load in LC 9 DP8. This would be a bug in LC 9. I've filed a bug report:

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20291

Trevor, thanks for taking the time.

It turns out that the external won't load in LC 9 DP-8 because the IDE runs in 64-bit mode and the external is 32-bit. I dug up the source code. Anybody up for compiling the preferences external with 32/64 bit support?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0brqz101zq00 ... 2.zip?dl=0

@trevordevore: Attached is a rebuild of the source supplied against the 10.9 SDK and Universal Arch (intel 32 and 64 bit). It seems to load fine into a 64-bit version of LiveCode... And the 'Exists' function seems to return false for a random pref name so hopefully it works!

Thanks Mark! I can confirm that the external loads with the default Levure app in LC 8.1.6 and LC 9.0 DP 8.

Ralf - you can replace the external in ./levure/framework/helpers/preferences with the one Mark uploaded and your project should load. The next release will include the new external.

That was quick. Big thanks to all involved.