I gave Copilot the following prompt:
"reate a layout that has 3 side by side areas. The first is an area to display text from a file. The second is an area to show a list of text “Codes’ or labels that the user can add, rename, or delete from. The third area is where a list of “References” will be recorded, where a “Reference” is a “Code”, the file the code was applied to, and the position of selected text in that file (from the first area).”
to a new project. It generated the layout (nice job) with a browser widget, and two list widgets with buttons for add, renaming, and deleting.
However, it FROZE after generating the layout.I was unable to type any follow up revisions to copolit to revise or enhance the generated layout.
Thanks for your feedback. I was able to create a layout with that prompt and it hasn’t crashed so far. Will continue to try to reproduce. Unfortunately the AI is a bit more like a human and is non-deterministic so the layout I’ve got back may not be the same as yours. What platform were you on and were you using Native or Web?
I was using Create on the web (https://preview.livecode.com/) from latest Firefox (145.0.2) for Windows 11 (latest patches). It could be a fluke. I tried only twice and the problem was slightly different. I will try again after a fresh reboot, relaunch, and reload of the browsed and Create. I will add that I am very impressed with what it generated before it froze on me. Wow! Truly game-changing.
Really pleased to hear that you’re impressed by it! We want to make it a really central, strong and reliable feature.
Thanks for taking the time to dig into it further. If it crashes again can you go into your developer tools and send us a screenshot and/or exported log from the browser console (depending on what is available in your browser).
Now, withe the same prompt, it is working without freezing, so perhaps it was a local issue. I’ll get more debugging data if it happens again. I find it amazing that you almost get a different layout each time from the same prompt, but all are “correct”. This makes me want to create multiple projects from the same Copilot prompt to see which AI generated interface I like best!
Yeah its very more-ish isn’t it! Hopefully you can get to where you want to be reasonably fast.