Just discovered Trelby

[poto...@gmail.com]

Some how or other I stumbled across Trelby and so far I really like it. It's the first screenwriting app I've come across that is both intuitive and stable. I have tried every screenwriting application, free and commercial, that's available (most more then once) and I've had trouble with all of them except Movie Draft, which is still too "young", and now Trelby. (I like Scrivener too as a writing tool but it's only does screenwriting as a "hobby".)

 

I kinda like Final Draft, but

 

Granted, like all OS projects, Trelby is lacking a few things, but I was able to start working right away without being frustrated by bizzare menus and non-intuitive commands. And didn't crash in the first few minutes. And I didn't have to pay $250 for it.

 

Most apps are Mac ports, and they just don't do a good job of working the way Windows users work. I've been working with computers and writing software for about 25 years. Certain command/key-strokes are encoded in my DNA. I can just suddenly start using Ctrl-4 when I want to do a search. And I shouldn't have too. I want the tool to get out of my way so I can write my story. I don't want to have to rethink how to use my computer.

 

So far, Trelby seems to be doing that for me. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

[fayelo...@yahoo.com]

I just downloaded it but can not get it to come on to my screen can you help. I have windows 8

[Anil Gulecha]

We have not yet tested thsi with windows 8, as we dont have access to it. I would recommend right click > properties > Compatibility options, and set it to an earlier version of windows, to see if that helps.

~Anil

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[Osku Salerma]

Actually I do have access to Windows 8, and I've just tested downloading and installing Trelby using our official installer, and everything went fine. I've thus closed the ticket we had about win8 not working since it's false.

If some people do have problems, they need to give more detailed information, because it works fine on my system.

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[Anil Gulecha]

Good to hear it works fine.

~Anil

[foco...@gmail.com]

The app itself seems to work fine on win8, but the install hung and then crashed. After a restart, it turned out that it had installed fine. Don't know what's up there.

[oisin....@gmail.com]

Hey, I'm a huge fan of Trelby, it's the simplest and most compatible screenwriting app I've come across. Just got a new laptop (with windows 8) and the first thing I did was install Trelby. It installed fine but it won't open, telling me to see the logfile trelby.exe.log for details. In that, the error reads as follows:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 12: invalid continuation byte

Any help would be hugely appreciated. I really don't want to have to learn a whole new and less compatible app... I just my my trelby back...

p.s. I tried troubleshooting the compatibility mode, but changing it to xp/vista/7 only resulted in the very same error.

[Osku Salerma]

It's a bug already fixed a long time ago, happening for users with non-ascii characters in their windows usernames. We really should get around to doing a new release with that fix in it.

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[Oisín Mistéil]

Thanks for getting back to me so fast, set up a new account on the laptop with plain old ascii characters and it worked a treat. Really appreciate your help!

Oisín

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