I’m using the Outlaw editor and I’m trying to add a folder to my project so that I can organize my images and some HTML files I’ll be using for my project.
How do you add folders to a project and then access the files in them. I’m assuming it would be “folder\filename.ext” instead of just “filename.ext”, correct?
I don’t see any option to create a folder using the Outlaw editor and just copying the folder into the project directory doesn’t work either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
The inability to create a folder inside Outlaw is a flaw that came from a specific design decision in the early days of the app. While I could change it now, the “fix” is so easy I hate to spend time on it.
Fix: Drag a folder from an Explorer or Finder window into your project. Ta-da! 
At that point, yes, you just access the contents of the folder using slashes, althought I think you need forward slashes on Mac and Windows (it’s not an Outlaw thing, it’s a Lua thing, I believe): local ufo = display.newImage(“images/ufo.png”)
I hope that helps.
Jay
Ok… I’ll try that. I actually DID that before - it seems like the intuitive thing to do, but the folder doesn’t show up as a folder and can’t be expanded. It shows up more like a document and the images/subfolders don’t appear in the project folders - even when I tell it to copy it to the project folders - like you would with an image, etc.
John
The inability to create a folder inside Outlaw is a flaw that came from a specific design decision in the early days of the app. While I could change it now, the “fix” is so easy I hate to spend time on it.
Fix: Drag a folder from an Explorer or Finder window into your project. Ta-da!
At that point, yes, you just access the contents of the folder using slashes, althought I think you need forward slashes on Mac and Windows (it’s not an Outlaw thing, it’s a Lua thing, I believe): local ufo = display.newImage(“images/ufo.png”)
I hope that helps.
Jay
Ok… I’ll try that. I actually DID that before - it seems like the intuitive thing to do, but the folder doesn’t show up as a folder and can’t be expanded. It shows up more like a document and the images/subfolders don’t appear in the project folders - even when I tell it to copy it to the project folders - like you would with an image, etc.
John