He's talking about the Resource Tree on the right hand side of the IDE where your rooms, objects, sprites etc are.
... good lord ...
It does make you wonder why so much basic functionality is missing from the IDE.
That's great to know, thank you for pointing that out gnysek. Like rIKmAN mentioned, it's a basic functionality that is surely missed by many.I saw a feature request about this on YYG Bugtracker, and have a high priority, so this should come at some point: http://bugs.yoyogames.com/view.php?id=21227 . Those which aren't planning in next few months have a comment "not before 2.1", so there is a chance this will come before end of year
When I started using GMS2, I stumbled around for a while with this, wondering if something was wrong with my right-click menu, or maybe the feature had been re-named to something obscure... so I re-read all the options on the right-click menu carefully... but nope, no "Sort" of any kind.
I saw a feature request about this on YYG Bugtracker, and have a high priority, so this should come at some point: http://bugs.yoyogames.com/view.php?id=21227 . Those which aren't planning in next few months have a comment "not before 2.1", so there is a chance this will come before end of year
There' a lot of more things more important to add I think - check http://bugs.yoyogames.com/ and see how many great features are suggested there!
It's not ideal, but the bug that makes the resource jump to the root only happens when you drop the dragged item onto the top half of another item. If you drag it onto the bottom half it works as it should.
Personally I don't understand why you wouldn't structure your resources in a way that makes sense to you... This is no different from putting files in folders in your operating system.
1) You wouldn't be expanding the resource tree, you would just be expanding folders instead. It's exactly the same deal - see GMS2's Asset Explorer below.
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but have you tried using Project Views? You can setup multiple resource tree views, each in their own panel, customised to only show resources of a certain type (sprites, objects etc...)
Oh, I do and my OS has the ability to sort by name and it's something from GMS1 I would like to see carried over. That being said, let's take a look at structuring our resources in this gif I have provided. Even using the 'wait' technique it doesn't always work and it's very hit or miss. Here is moving a simple script around and imagine doing this with a project that has 100's of resource objects and trying not to spend more time than needed simply organizing things.
Yeah the resource tree bug is annoying, but should be fixed in the next update.Oh, I do and my OS has the ability to sort by name and it's something from GMS1 I would like to see carried over. That being said, let's take a look at structuring our resources in this gif I have provided. Even using the 'wait' technique it doesn't always work and it's very hit or miss. Here is moving a simple script around and imagine doing this with a project that has 100's of resource objects and trying not to spend more time than needed simply organizing things.
It's not the end of the world but a simple underline/overline + highlight combo (which most resource trees use) is an intuitive and common way to show where the thing is about to drop. Bugs excluded of course.
Thanks Bones! I forgot to watch this thread and have been trying to figure out work-arounds for the various source control issues we're finding.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I've used 4 engines extensively in my career (Call of Duty Radiant, Frostbite, Unreal, Unity) and several projects on proprietary engines - and Unreal by far has the easiest content management system of the lot. There are issues and they're constantly resolving them - through community feedback and a fairly open minded approach. Your engine, your call. You do you.
This message has been in march 2017. More than one years later, we still do NOT have this functionnality. What the hell ?
Bugs first, features later.
Almost 3 years. The bug was submitted 2016-04-21
This feature does not automatically sort the entire resource tree. This is just an option (RMB menu) to sort the selected group. For example, how about 1.5 thousand scripts (and just couple objects)? Of course, they are placed in many different groups. But even within one group, it's easier to find the script when names are sorted.
Only if you remember the name (or part of it). For example, if someone uses the asset I made.
