Folders

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Folder Pane

On the left side of the ADRIFT developer window is the folder display pane:

Folders.jpg

The "Standard Library" folder contains 12 sub-folders which contain all of the built-in commands and functions that you can use in your game.

You can display the folders in it by double-clicking the name or clicking on the + box next to it. Clicking the - box or double-clicking again will collapse the folder list again.

FoldersShowingLib.jpg

The other 10 top-level folders are for you to store the Locations, Objects, Tasks etc. that you create for this particular game.

When you first open ADRIFT developer, the first 5 of these folders (Locations, Objects, Tasks, Characters and Events) will be open at the bottom of the window, all of them empty except the Characters folder which contains the "Player" character.

FoldersWindow.jpg

To open another folder, just double-click on its name in the folder list.

Double-click the "Properties" folder at the bottom. It will open on top of the other folder windows and can be seen to contain 3 properties.

Click on the "Characters" folder in the folders pane. Note that it's window comes in front of the properties window and its caption becomes boldface to indicate that it is the currently selected folder. This is a good way to find a folder that has become hidden behind other windows.

The folder windows can be closed by clicking the red X, then re-opened by double clicking them in the folder pane.

If a folder contains other folders, such as the standard library, then you can't open it by double-clicking. If it only contains other folders then there is no need to open it, but if you ever put both items and folders into the same folder then the only way to open it is to right-click on it to open the context menu.

FolderContextMenu.jpg

  • "Collapse" or "Expand" will do the same as double-clicking the folder.
  • "Open in new window" is the option to use to access items in a folder that contains both subfolders and items.
  • "Copy" can be used to duplicate an entire folder.
  • "Delete" will delete the folder and everything in it!
  • "Rename" lets you call the folder something else (only do this to folders you created, not the standard ones)
  • "New" opens a menu of items that you can create in the folder. This is mostly used to create new sub-folders inside a folder, but this does allow you to create any of the 10 Adrift item types in a folder without opening it first.