ProjectTool: Exports are not taking IDE's resource versioning into consideration and can generate an export which is too new for the IDE to load

[HannulaTero]

Description

After I have made local package, and try build same project, exporting and running fails. Also GameMaker IDE fails to reopen the project, and warns about ProjectTool. IDE must be restarted before project can be reopened. After restarting the IDE, the project opens correctly and building works.

Here are two messages which appear when trying to reopen project without restarting the IDE.

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String not found: Project is later than this GameMaker release. Do you want to downgrade this project with ProjectTool to match this GameMaker release? WARNING: This may lose data!

Failed to load project:
C:\Users\tero_\files\github\GML-Compute-Mergesort\Compute_Mergesort\Compute_Mergesort.yyp
The following 1 x projects failed version-change with ProjectTool:

--- C:\Users\tero_\files\github\GML-Compute-Mergesort\Compute_Mergesort\Compute_Mergesort.yyp ---

Error: The project serialiser could not start ProjectTool.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create local package of the project.
2. Try exporting or running project.

Which version of GameMaker are you reporting this issue for?

IDE v2024.1300.0.743 Runtime v2024.1300.0.753

Which operating system(s) are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 10.0.19045.0

6ff143c4-0e30-4009-a414-a12e800c2d5a

[stuckie]

Ah... from the log it looks like ProjectTool has generated a project which is too new for the IDE to load.
If you need to get on just now, you could probably downgrade ProjectTool slightly ( .23 instead of .24 ) since you've manually installed it from the Package Manager, and that will generate things properly.

We will ensure that all ProjectTool commands are given the correct versions to write to.

[Emc1923]

Verified fixed with PT 24.13.111