Settings

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To change the major settings of the ADRIFT developer, open the main menu by clicking the round button in the top-left corner of the screen and click "Settings...". This will open the Settings dialog box, which currently contains two pages, one for general settings and one for listing all of the library files that will used in new ADRIFT games that you create.

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General Settings

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The "Forms theme" allows you to customise how adrift developer will look.

Each item (object, character, task etc) has a unique identifier within ADRIFT, known as a key. Certain functions use these keys to reference the item unambiguously. "Show keys on edit forms" displays this key in the title bar of the form when editing the item. You only need this if you are making extensive use of functions which require keys as parameters.

"Show all open windows in taskbar" should normally be selected as it prevents confusion from losing dialog windows behind other windows.

Next are the settings for the dictionary that ADRIFT uses for automatic spelling correction.

Copy reciprocal links/restrictions indicates whether, when you add a link to another location on the Directions page of a location, ADRIFT should automatically create a link back in the opposite direction from that location. If you always use simple bidirectional links between locations then set these to "Always". If you often use one-way links or twisty passages then set this to "Never".

Library Settings

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This page lists all of the library files that you wish to use with your game, and where they are located on your hard disk. The ADRIFT installer should have automatically placed the location of StandardLibrary.amf on this list. As of Sep 2011 this is the only library file that exists, but in the future there may be special libraries that can be added to extend the capabilities of ADRIFT for particular types of games. You can also select that only specific libraries are to be used with the next game created, using the checkbox next to each entry.

The "Hide Library Items" checkbox removes the Standard Library from the "Folders" list in the main window.