| Game Editor: Making help files |
Making Help Files
| These help files are really HTML files. They're all stored in the "help" folder. If you want to include the level editor with your game, you might want to include some information about your game and how to edit it. I recommend putting all these files into a new folder within the "help" folder. ç They'll appear in this list!
Size & Format
| The html files will be displayed at 284 pixels wide. I deliberately made the help window small because narrow columns of text are easier to read. (Like a newspaper) The game editor uses an Internet Explorer component to display these HTML files. So when testing, make sure they look correct in that browser. Since it's using Internet Explorer, I don't recommend going online with it. But if you really want to, then set your link targets to _blank so they'll open in a new browser window instead of this narrow help window. If you're using Dreamweaver, there's a template file stored in help/Templates. "Templates" is an invisible folder. The file is named help system.dwt If you use it, your help files will have the same header, footer, and fonts as this help document.
| Last updated: February 19, 2010 |