Thanks, Pharan!
That sheds some light on the problem.

(nice dA gallery. the Spine team is a talented bunch)

No. I haven't really gotten that far into Spine yet.

I'm only attaching images to bones and moving/rotating the bones.

I can't get my test character's feet to glide smoothly across the ground as he walks - notice the subtle bounce in the feet.

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Anyone else had this issue and solved it?

When I press T or Y to switch to another animation, Spine immediately crashes.
But only if I switch to Animate Mode and it's the first thing I do. If do any editing, THEN switch animations - no crash.

Crash error popup says:
"Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred.
Would you like to submit the error to Esoteric Software?"

Log text:
Spine Launcher 2.2.05
Windows 7 x86 6.1
Java 1.7.0_06 Esoteric Software
32-bit Server VM
Up to date: 2.1.27
Spine 2.1.27 Professional, LWJGL
Licensed to: *****, *****
NVIDIA Corporation
GeForce GTX 780/PCIe/SSE2
4.5.0 NVIDIA 353.62
Started.
An unexpected error has occurred:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Array is empty.
at ha.c(SourceFile:307)
at mH.a(SourceFile:1228)
at pl.a(SourceFile:345)
at me.a(SourceFile:312)
at o.a(SourceFile:72)
at o.a(SourceFile:72)
at av.e(SourceFile:286)
at ah.run(SourceFile:234)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:251)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:104)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:672)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:670)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:681)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:244)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:147)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:139)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:97)

Oops.
Just realized this thread should be in the Bugs forum.

I assume a mod will relocate it.

Aha! Sounds like a good trick. I'll try it.
Thanks!

Looong time lurker, first time poster.
Finally ready; grabbed a Pro license today.
Super excited to finally use the software. It's GO time.

I guess this is more of a suggestion than anything.

While rigging up a new skeleton I find myself changing the draw order quite a bit. Dragging slots up and down in the list until it's just right.

It could be made so much faster/more convenient if the draw order list rows highlighted when they (or a child of) is selected.

A quick scenario:
Looking at the below image, I need to change where "leg-lower_close" falls in the draw order. I've selected it in the viewport, by clicking my character, but . . . now I have to read the names in the draw order list until I find it (pointed to by blue arrow).

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Why not highlight the row, or use some other highlighting ui gimmick (a dot drawn to left of slot icon, etc) to save users time?