Simple Graphical Window not working

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Hello all, I’m trying to use Emily Short’s Simple Graphical Window extension Version 10/161003 and have run into a bit of a dead end when trying to use it to make a game. I get this error:

*I can't find the right version of the extension requested by 'Include version 1/160919 of Glk Events by Dannii Willis' [![](inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png)](source:C:\Users\15165\Documents\Inform\Extensions\Emily Short\Glulx Entry Points.i7x#line9) - I can only find version 2.0.200807.*

I can’t find version 1/160919 of Glk Events, and manually changing the version number referenced in Glulx Entry Points only produces this error:

*In 'The enable Glulx acceleration rule is not listed in the for starting the virtual machine rules' [![](inform:/doc_images/Reveal.png)](source:C:\Users\15165\Documents\Inform\Extensions\Dannii Willis\Alternative Startup Rules.i7x#line33), you gave 'The enable Glulx acceleration rule' where a rule was required.*

I think the easiest solution might be to find the proper version but I’ve scoured every repository I could find and came up empty. Can anyone advise?

Thanks

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Don’t. Unless you really know what you’re doing. Updates are updates for a reason, and manually changing the version, as you saw, produces a compatibility error.

Usually if something requires too many extensions that I can’t find, I find a different extension that does something similar. But in this case, the GitHub has a lot of extensions, including Simple Graphical Windows, and you can probably find an earlier version there. Otherwise, there are other window-related extensions in that repository—see if any of those are useful.

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By navigating the history of the extensions repository, you can find an old version

Click on the “download raw file” button to get it.
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I feel a little embarrassed I didn’t think to do this, but thank you.

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