Using Gold Edit
- When you start Gold Edit (use cmd-E when GoldPusher is paused) it will
look for a file called 'Rooms' in the current folder. Otherwise you have
to navigate yourself with the standard file dialog to a room-file.
- When a room file is opened you see a scroll-list of the rooms. Each
row in the list shows five items: room-number, pattern-ID, room-bonus,
solution size and room-name. The pattern-ID is the resource-ID of a 'ppat'-resource
that is used for the background-pattern of this room. The solution size
is merely there to see if a room has a solution. If not, the size is zero.
When you edit a room the solution is automatically cleared.
- When you double-click on a room in the list, an autoscrolling-window
is opened and shows the room as you see it in the game. You can add/remove
things by just clicking in this window.
- The monster-menu and the stones-menu can be teared of the menu bar
and used as floating palettes when you edit a room-window.
- The room-menu allows you to create new rooms, to change the name and
sequence number of a room and to change the background pattern. You can
also change the order of the rooms by select-and-drag in the room-list
on the screen.
- The background of a room can be changed in a dialog-window that appears
when the menu-item 'Background & Bonus' is selected. In this dialog
window you can also specify the room bonus as a number from 1-1000.
- In the scroll-list of the rooms you can make a multiple selection (shift-clicking
or shift-dragging with the mouse or using shift+arrow-key). You can delete
this selection using the backspace key or the menu item 'delete room'.
Or you can move the selection by clicking inside the selected area and
dragging to where you want the first room to go.
- The menu item "Append" in the file menu allows you to append
another room-file to the current room-file being edited.
- The editor makes sure that a room has one and only one GoldPusher.
If you had more it deletes them, if you have none it adds one.
- You cannot make a new empty room-file with a single menu command. The
easiest way to make a new empty room file is to duplicate an existing room
file in the Finder and to delete all rooms in this file. To do this you
open the duplicate file with Gold Edit, select the first room, shift-select
the last room (all rooms are now highlighted) and press the backspace key.
- You can protect your rooms with a password. Nobody can alter your magnificent
puzzles without knowing the password. Rooms protected by a password can
only be played by registered users.
Puzzles: Erich Friedman
Artwork and 50 puzzles: Daniel Vree
Programming: Willem Vree
Mail comments to: wimvr@tbm.tudelft.nl