Welcome dialog
The Welcome dialog is the first thing you see when the editor starts without a project open (and whenever you close your last project). It is a quick launch pad for getting into your work: start something new, open an existing project, browse the bundled samples, or jump back into a project you were recently working on.
The window has two panels — actions on the left, your recent projects on the right.
Get Started
The left panel has three actions:
- New Project — create a new, empty project. This opens the project-creation dialog where you choose a name and location.
- Open Project — open an existing project from disk via a file browser.
- Open Samples — open the sample project bundled with the editor, a good starting point for exploring what the editor can do. This action is disabled if the samples project cannot be found next to the editor.
Recent Projects
The right panel lists the projects you opened most recently, newest first. Each row shows the project's file name and the folder it lives in.
- Open a recent project — click a row (or double-click it) to open that project.
- Search / filter — start typing in the Search box at the top of the panel to narrow the list. The filter matches the project's name or any part of its full path, and is case-insensitive. Clear the box to show every recent project again.
- Remove a recent — click the trash icon on the right of a row to remove that project from the list. This only forgets it from the recents list; it does not delete the project from disk. The removal is remembered the next time you open the editor.
Projects that no longer exist
If a project on the list has been moved or deleted on disk, it is still shown but greyed-out and struck-through, and cannot be opened. You can remove such an entry with its trash icon to tidy up the list. Stale entries are also cleaned up automatically when you close the dialog.
The count of projects in the list is shown in the footer at the bottom of the panel.