Dialogger is a simple dialogue graph editor. It saves your dialogue graph in two file formats:
- .dl - JSON file including all visual layout information
- .json - (when using "Export..." dialog) Optimized JSON, easier to parse in other systems.
Read more about the rationale here.
Navigate to the project folder install the dependencies with NodeJS + NPM using:
npm install
After all the dependencies are installed (Electron is an included dependency), just run it:
npm start
Click and drag the grid to navigate around.
Right click on the grid to select the type of node to create:
- Text - Create a simple node for a string of text.
- Choice - Branch from a text node with multiple options.
- Branch - A switch/case list for previously set variables. Click the
+to add more cases and the-to remove (from the bottom). - Set - Name and set a variable.
- Node - Does nothing but behaves like Text. Best to just ignore it.
After creating a node, click and drag from the green semicircle of the node to another node's red semicircle to connect them. You can change which node an arrow is attached to by clicking and dragging the appropriate end of the arrow.
Click the X anywhere you see it to delete the attached thing.
You can build executable files for all major operating systems using:
npm run build
The files are output to releases when it's done.
You can also install to individual operating systems using the following:
npm run build-win
npm run build-lin
npm run build-mac
NOTE: This uses pretty old versions of everything, and for some reason [email protected]
refuses to work with NodeJS versions in the double digits. Use a Node Version Manager
and use Node v8.x with this project.
ALSO: If you're using MacOS to build Windows releases, reconsider. If you still want to do it, you'll need to install Wine and check out this comment for how to get the icon editor to work since MacOS Catalina and up don't have 32-bit capability.
Because this project was originally just a fork of the original project to get it working in Electron and nothing more. At this point, trying to update all the dependencies and get everything working again with the new versions would simply not be worth the effort.
If you feel called to upgrade everything, feel free to fork and send a pull request my way. I'll merge it as soon as I can if it works!
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