Web Designer is not showing anymore

See screenshot:

It used to work with Beta, when I was looking at it last. Then recently I saw that it was showing blank, like now, so I went back to v.2.5.4 and now I have uninstalled that and installed the new 2.6.1.0.

Did the old 2.5.4 have to be uninstalled in some specific way?

Or is this a known issue?

What can I try next?

Always first uninstall old versions via the Windows control panel.

What Windows OS is this?
What Edge Chromium version do you have on your machine?
When you enable 'show dev tools', do you see the browser console launched from your IDE?

Sure, I have done that. I did keep the old folder in place, though.

W11, with the latest updates, including Edge v130. Which just updated too, when I looked.

Yes, but then a minute later it pops up this error:

This is Athens, BTW. The original v12 with Patch 1.

Just uninstalled WebCore through Control Panel (both entries), deleted the folders and re-installed it. Delphi was of course restarted too. Same issue. It opens the debug window and then reports the same error.

That was an older project with some stuff already on the form, I've tried a few of similar ones I was testing before. And now I've also tried creating a brand new WebCore Bootstrap project under 2.6.1.0, same result: blank form, no choices in the Palette.

Found the designer HTML file in the installation folders, but trying to open it in the browser produces an "Out of memory" error.

I've rebooted this VM too, BTW.

Interestingly, the same happens in Delphi:

It actually does run out of memory...

And it reports these errors along the way, although in this case it could be missing paths, because I opened the file manually:

If you have used FNC, please make sure to recompile your FNC WEB packages with the latest version

Just removed everything FNC, but still the same issue

Re-installed 2.6.1.0 without anything FNC, same result.

I also have BIZ here, does that need to be reinstalled?

In case this could be related to the Edgeview 130 update, can you replace the TMS WEB Core DLLs with these specifically for v130:
DLLs_v130.zip (143.9 KB)

Nope, same result. I replaced both WebCore's & VCL UI Pack's copies, just in case.

Also replaced Windows's own copy, same result.

I saw this issue with the Beta too, recently, as I mentioned. So there must have been some relatively recent change that caused this...

Yes, it should use the one included in Windows, but just in case...
So, there are no more old .twcl files around in your system?
Check the folder
\WebDesigner\webformdesigner\core that it only has webcore.twcl

I had some under users\public, plus some FNC BPL's that somehow did not uninstall with the rest of FNC, so I removed all of them. - same result, though.

And my copy of webcore.twcl is dated 18th, while the rest - 25th. Is this significant?

No others.

Ok, yes, thanks, that was it! - I had some FNC ones there.

I guess you should change FNC uninstallers to clean it up better.

I'll try installing FNC back and see if it's all still good...

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Something is broken again:

It gives me that message for all FNC components on the old forms too.

Uninstalled all FNC, WebCore, re-installed WebCore (rebooted too for good measure), installed FNC 1) Core, 2) UI Pack & 3) Chart - start Delphi, open that Project, same thing: same error and no FNC controls on the Palette.

They all are showing in the TMS WEB -> Options in Delphi Options.

Does it need to be additionally enabled somehow?

PS: With WebDesigner OFF, it all shows and works as normal
PPS: When it crashes, it now displays this new Sentry report prompt, so you would be seeing a barrage of messages from me ;-)

The TXData* components are not yet ready for being used with the web form designer. We are working on this and we will inform when this is ready.