Spintax Studio Files

Which file do I download?

spintax-studio-0.2.2.0-win64-portable.zip — the application itself. Unzip it and run spintax-studio.exe: nothing to install, no runtime, no account. Windows 10 version 1809 or later on x64. It is not code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn before it runs.

The recommended install is the Microsoft Store, which signs, installs and updates it for you, and is free.

The other two files are packaging, not downloads: spintax-studio.msix is the unsigned package that the Store signs — downloading it will not install anything — and spintax-studio.msixupload is the Partner Center submission container.

Checksums: SHA256SUMS covers the two MSIX files as the build produced them. The portable archive is 3d36f58f9f7b809ae196e1f562bb4b85bc6c2675e30af8d95dd62969cc5f637e. The spintax-studio.exe inside it was taken out of spintax-studio.msix above, and is byte-identical to the executable the Microsoft Store installs for version 0.2.2.0 — verified against an installed copy, not asserted.

What is in this version

Spintax Studio 0.2.2 is about the moments the window used to stop answering.

• A template whose definitions refer to each other in a circle could leave the diagnostics panel unresponsive for many seconds. It answers at once now, and reports one finding per name rather than one for every path through the circle, so the panel is shorter as well as faster.
• The diagnostics panel is much quicker on documents with many findings.
• Importing a large GSA template no longer freezes the window while it converts.
• Two plural findings used to be wrong: a list of forms supplied by a #def was reported as the wrong number of forms on a template that rendered correctly, and a condition used as the count made the whole block disappear with nothing reported at all. Both are right.
• The variants panel answers promptly on templates whose macros and fragments refer to each other widely, and says when the number it gives is a lower bound.
• Engine updated to v0.8.0.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/investblog/spintax-studio/compare/v0.2.1.0...v0.2.2.0