TuiDesigner - unable to drag elements

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Can’t design anything in the tui designer. I’ve noticed this behavior on multiple machines over the last few months, had hoped it was a configuration issue. I’ve spent some time today and yesterday trying to make it work and have not had luck.
I’m running it in pwsh 7.2.6, as well as powershell 5.1

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without editing anything, i save the layout, and i get the below… note the “$” variables, seems like
$.Text=“”
should be $somevariablename

# This file was generated at 10/26/2022 3:58:52 PM

# Manually editing this file may result in issues with the designer

$Window = [Terminal.Gui.FrameView]::new()

$Window.Id = 'Window'

$Window.Title = 'Window'

$Window.X = 0

$Window.Y = 0

$Window.Width = [Terminal.Gui.Dim]::Fill()

$Window.Height = [Terminal.Gui.Dim]::Fill()

$ = [Terminal.Gui.Button]::new()

$.Text = ''

$.IsDefault = $False

$.HotKey = 'Null'

$.AutoSize = $False

$.Shortcut = 'Null'

$.TabIndex = 0

$.TabStop = $True

$.CanFocus = $True

$.Id = ''

$.WantMousePositionReports = $False

$.WantContinuousButtonPressed = $False

$.LayoutStyle = 'Computed'

$.X = [Terminal.Gui.Pos]::At(0)

$.Y = [Terminal.Gui.Pos]::At(0)

$.Width = [Terminal.Gui.Dim]::Sized(4)

$.Height = [Terminal.Gui.Dim]::Sized(1)

$.TextAlignment = 'Centered'

$.VerticalTextAlignment = 'Top'

$.TextDirection = 'LeftRight_TopBottom'

$.IsInitialized = $True

$.Enabled = $True

$.Visible = $False

$Window.Add($)

$Window
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I’ve opened an issue for this to see if we can reproduce and track down what’s happened.

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@CaelFrost and @adam, issue 1654 was raised on the tracker for this at Show-TUIDesigner should initialize the [Terminal.Gui.Application] · Issue #1654 · ironmansoftware/issues · GitHub. The workaround is to initialize the class before launching Show-TuiDesigner