A project explorer and opening projects from the menu bar

[britzl]

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@amel

When you have opened a project but you wish to start a new project or open a recent project, you need to restart the Defold engine. It would be nice if there was an option to create a new project or open a recent project from the menu bar.

This has been reported here: Add possibility to change project from the editor. · Issue #76 · defold/editor2-issues · GitHub

@amel

The only similar post I have found was this one: Open project/create new project without quiting which dates from Aug 2017. Has there been any progress on this feature?

No, afraid not. It’s not been prioritised over other more critical things.

@amel

There are also two buttons to quit Defold.

The Defold menu with the Quit Defold option is the one generated by OSX. The File menu is created by the editor itself. Since the editor is cross platform the Quit option under File is the only one available on Linux and Windows. We could probably make it conditional and not show it on OSX.

@amel

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned earlier but it would be very nice if there was some sort of optional folder explorer where you can look into your projects to find code/files you want to reuse instead of using another editor.

You mean some kind of level “above” the currently opened project? Would it show other previously opened projects?