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The copied project is missing in T3D toolbox.

by Alfred Chang · in Torque 3D Beginner · 10/09/2012 (1:24 pm) · 6 replies

I just copy a project from other machine to the folder of My Projects. And I restart the t3d toolbox, but there is no project I copying. Any suggestion? And btw, could you guys in GG have any plan to open source of the toolbox? Cheers.

#1
10/09/2012 (2:37 pm)
Make sure that Toolbox is actually closed and not just hanging out in your system tray. If you right-click it in the systray and close it, then re-open it, the project should show up. At least it did in the test that I ran for the GitHub release 1.1 version of it.

EDIT:
If we can port it to the open source version of QT rather than the commercial version that it uses, we will release the source code to it as well.
#2
10/09/2012 (5:00 pm)
I'm pretty sure that I have closed the toolbox and restarted it. Could you tell me how the toolbox identify that there is a valid project in My Projects? Does it just go through the folders in My Projects and list them in the Project Snapshot View? Cheers.
#3
10/10/2012 (10:35 am)
It checks to see if there is a game directory and then pulls the EXE name from the directory to populate the list. The list name is the directory name under My Projects, and the Project Builds drop-down includes the EXE name.

I created a folder (AwesomeGameLOL), added a "game" folder, and then created a text file (AwesomeGame!!!.txt) and renamed it with a .exe extension. It shows up correctly, albeit sans the preview pic since that is all that is in the directory.
#4
10/10/2012 (5:04 pm)
If you close the Toolbox by clicking the Windows close button (x) then you haven't actually closed it. It is still running in your system tray. To actually exit the Toolbox, use quit from the file menu or right-click the system tray icon and select close.

That has annoyed me for some time - I hope someone gets rid of that "feature" soon....
#5
10/10/2012 (6:15 pm)
That's definitely in the plans, Richard!
#6
10/11/2012 (7:19 am)
Cheers, David. Your explanation about how the toolbox works is very helpful. The game folder was there, but the executable was missing on the clean repo for my project. So I think that was the problem. After I built the project, and restart toolbox, my project appeared. Thanks, again.