STM32CubeIDE Startup Issues - There is no active editor that provides an outline

[stretchy195]

Hello, I installed STM32CubeIDE and attempted to set up my first project as you can see in the three attachments.

Based on YouTube videos, I expected to see the MCU outline so I can assign functions to the pins.  As you can see in one of the screenshots, I'm getting a message stating that "There is no active editor that provides an outline"

I did the following to try and address this, with no luck...

   *  Uninstalled and Reinstalled STM32CubeIDE, including manually deleting folders that were not removed by the automated removal process.  To be safe, I used a different project folder name but this didn't help.

  *  Installed STM32 on a second Windows 11 laptop but saw the exact same problem

I didn't bother trying older versions of STM32CubeIDE because I read in a different post that this did not solve the problem for the other user.

Any help is appreciated.

[TDK · Accepted solution]

Use standalone STM32CubeMX to generate a project. You can't do so in STM32CubeIDE anymore.

STM32CubeIDE 2.0.0 released - STMicroelectronics Community

STM32CubeIDE 2.0 release - early heads-up! - STMicroelectronics Community

[stretchy195]

Thanks TDK!!!

[stretchy195]

If you have any sway with the ST SW dev folks, I suggest that they improve the error messages that are displayed when someone makes this mistake.