Hi Ken:
I see the trouble. Dont feel stupid as to the solution, the stupidity is mine. Normally, you cannot select OUTPUT unless you have a gear created, and selected on the projects screen.l I missed the possability that someone migth call it up before any gears are created. Ill kill that in the next version.
TO fix your trouble, hit the "Add Master" button, this actually creates the gear your showing on the screen and adds it to the project. You should be on the project screen when you do an output request. The sequence is..
Go to spur gears, design a gear ( or use the one on the csreen as it is..), select Add Master ( or add slave if you want to use the left hand gear), and that gear will be created and simulatable on the project screen. Select the gear by clicking on it in the project tree, THEN hit output. Youll see the gear is now listed as one of the gears to be output, you can then do any output you select.
The error was that if no gear is yet made, and none selected, the output manager shouldnt open.. I do check it before opening, but the variable that triggers that allowance is not yet set when no gears are yet created. SO when you pressed "output" , it crashes as it tries to do output on a nonexistant gear.
As I say, this will be fixed next release, but you should be OK as long as you use the project screen for your output till then.
Thx
Art