Barren Realms Builder
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Using the Interface
To navigate between panes in the program, simply click the tab representing the pane you wish to see.
The panes are:
- Area - General Area Information
- Rooms - Room Creation/Editing
- Mobs - Mob Creation/Editing
- Objects - Object Creation/Editing
- Resets - Mob/Object Placement
- Helps - Help Creation/Editing
- Mini Map - Small Map View
- Overview - Full Area Map
- Sim - Simulation to mimic the area online
- Warnings - Detected problems with the area
In each of the the Rooms, Mobs, and Objects Panes, there are a series of buttons. Each button performs the same function in all of these panes.
- Button 1 - "New Record" - Creates a new instance of a room, mob, or object respectively.
- Button 2 - "Copy Record" - Copies everything in the window into a new version of the window. Will not copy exits in the room pane. Will copy a shop in the mob pane.
- Button 3 - "Save Record" - Saves the current new information for the pane.
This DOES NOT save the file. You must use File->Save to do that.
- Button 4 - "Revert Changes" - Reverts last change made to the current window. Changes may not be reverted once you've saved them (Remeber that changes are saved every time you change panes!). Does not revert a full screen clear.
- Button 5 - "Clear Record" - Clears all entries in the window. Sets everything to the default (ignores Master Template).
- Button 6 - "Delete Record" - Permanently removes current instance, deleting resets and exits if applicable.
Additionally there are left and right arrows on the far right side of the
window. Either these or the drop down menu can be used to navigate through
the entries.
Using the View And Tools Menus
Special actions not available in the main window are also located on the top bar under "View" or "Tools".
View:
- View Source - This displays the actual source file for the area. You cannot edit this window, only look at it.
- External Items - Use "External Items" to allow connections to rooms that are not in your area, objects that are not in your area, and mobs that are not in your area.
The most common use of this command is to create the connection to the area in the mud your area connects to.
- Area Room Flags - Anything you click in here will affect all of your current rooms. Anything flag marked "ON" will set all already-made rooms checked with that flag.
Checking the "OFF" flag will remove that check from any existing room that has it checked. See Master Templates for affecting future rooms.
Tools:
- Strings to Clipboard - Copies all of the descriptions for rooms, mobs, and objects to the clipboard. You can then open a text editor
and paste them into it. This is used to facilitate spell checking. There is no spellchecker built-in to the builder. Because of the required line wrap in areas, carriage returns are copied as well.
Do not attempt to use this method to check grammar.
- Word Count - Brings up a separate window that lists all the words that you've used, and the number of times you've used each one.
- Redo Line Wrapping - Causes all the long strings to have their hard endlines removed. This is especially useful when opening files that were not wrapped appropriately.
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