Designing Games with Game Maker - YoYo Games

• Show the origin and bounding box in the sprite image. If checked, in the sprite
properties form, in the sprite image, the origin and bounding box for the sprite are
indicated.
• In object properties, show hints for actions. If checked, in the object properties
form, when you hold your mouse over one of the actions, a description is shown.
• When closing, remove instances outside the room. If checked, the program
warns you when there are instances or tiles outside a room and lets you remove them.
• Remember room settings when closing the form. If checked, a number of room
settings, like whether to show the grid, whether to delete underlying objects, etc. are
remembered when you edit the same room later.
• Scripts and code and colors. See the chapter on scripts for more information about
these preferences.
• Image editor. Default Game Maker uses a built-in editor for images. If you favor a
different image editing program you can specify here to use that different program for
editing the images.
• External sound editors. You can indicate here which external editors to use for the
different sound types. (Note that Game Maker does not have a built-in sound editor so
if you don't specify editors here you cannot edit the sounds.)
Edit menu
In the edit menu you can find the following additional commands:
• Add group. Resources can be grouped together. This is very useful when you make
large games. For example, you can put all sounds related to a certain object in a
group, or you can group all objects that are used in a particular level. This command
creates a new group in the currently selected resource type. You will be asked for a
name. Groups can again contain groups, etc. As indicated below you can drag
resources into the groups.
• Find Resource. With this command you type in the name of a resource and open the
corresponding property form.
• Expand Resource Tree. Fully expands the resource tree, showing all resources.
• Collapse Resource Tree. Fully collapses the resource tree, hiding all resources.
• Show Object Information. Using this command you can get an overview of all
objects in the game.