Hello Ksan,
This is a great place to ask questions, probably the best place right now.
When I click new Project I am asked to select a Project category. Only Samples is available there as an option. Where do I add more category
At this time you cannot add stuff to the project templates. Sorry. It is a planned feature. Generally you just need to start a “Blank project” and that gives you a basic place to start from. If you find yourself using templates just to reuse various utility functions you have then please consider using our project manager “External libraries” feature instead. This will prevent code duplication that occurs when you instantiate a new project template. Remember, a “project” in Glider is just a folder. No special files are required although folder with main.lua are considered executable projects. An external library is also just a folder that is merged into your project.
I then discovered something called a Project Group. I created a new one called CL Samples and asked Glider to add all subfolders under my CL Samples folder. Seems like it worked well and now I have all the CL samples listed in the Projects box on the left but there is no highest level group called CL Samples for me to collapse and hide all the samples in one go. I thought thats what a Project Group would do. Am I wrong?
You generally want to use project groups when you have multiple products and you want to open a particular “perspective.” You can just close all projects and open the right ones for each product manually, or you can create a project group for each one. Switching project groups will just close all projects and open the ones in that respective group.
For instance, things might get very confusing if you have multiple “Icons” folders or “Images” folders all open at the same time. Instead you want to create a project group per product and only have the relevant projects opened.
Regards,
M.Y. Developers
