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Dialogue Buttons

The Dialogue Buttons panel is a set of buttons that add items to the Dialogue: Conversations, Blocks, Lines of any Command, and Presets. Which buttons each panel displays is chosen in its Buttons dialog. The default layout has one panel with the most used buttons, and a row of tabs containing one panel per kind of Command.

The Buttons The buttons act on the selection of the Dialogue Navigator used last.

Button	What it does
Conversation	Asks for a name, then adds a Conversation.
Block	Asks for a name, then adds a Block to the selected Conversation.
A Command, such as Spoken Line	Adds a Line of that Command.
A Preset	Inserts a copy of the Preset's Lines.

Insertion Position

• Click: after the selected Line, or at the end of the selected Block.
• Ctrl+click: before the selected Line, or at the top of the selected Block.

With several Lines selected, a Line is added at each of them. With a Conversation selected, the Line is added to its last Block, or its first with Ctrl. The new Line is selected, so it opens in the Dialogue Editor at once. Button Selection Right-click the panel and choose Buttons.

• Displayed, on the left, lists the panel's buttons in their order.
• Available, on the right, lists everything else: the Conversation and Block buttons, every Command sorted by category, then your Presets sorted by category.

To	Do this
Add buttons	Select them in Available and press ← Add.
Remove buttons	Select them in Displayed and press Remove →.
Reorder buttons	Drag them in Displayed.
Start a new row	Select a button in Displayed and press Add Row: the buttons after it start on a new row.

Select several buttons at once with Ctrl and Shift. Changes are applied to the panel at once. A Preset's button follows its Preset: it's renamed with it, and disappears when the Preset is deleted. The tooltip of a category's heading in Available, when it has one, explains what its Commands are for. Text Event Commands The Text Events category contains Write Speed, Write Pause and Line Portrait. They only work inside a Text Event, made in the Text Event Editor: added to a Dialogue as Lines of their own, they have no effect when the Dialogue runs. So don't display buttons for them: the Text Event Editor's + Command menu lists them anyway. Options Right-click the panel and choose Options.

Option	Description
Layout	Columns: a fixed number of columns, where buttons stretch to fill the width. Flow: buttons sit side by side at their own width and wrap to the next row.
Columns	The number of columns, for the Columns layout.
Minimum button width	For the Flow layout. A button with a longer label is wider.
Alignment	For the Flow layout: each row of buttons sits Left, Centered or Right.
Scroll when the buttons don't fit	When off, the panel can't shrink below its buttons.
Fill the panel's height	For the Columns layout: the buttons grow taller to fill the panel, every row the same height. In a panel smaller than its buttons, they return to their normal height.
Minimum Size, Maximum Size	The minimum and maximum size of the panel's Area.

Keyboard Every Command and every Preset can be assigned a keyboard shortcut, in Settings > Shortcuts > Commands and Presets. None has a key until one is assigned. A shortcut adds its Line after the selection, like a click on the button.