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Dialogue Navigator

The Dialogue Navigator lists the Dialogue: each Conversation, the Blocks inside it, and the Lines inside each Block. It is where the Lines to edit are selected, and where the Dialogue is organized. Each kind of row has its own colors, and each Command its own, so the shape of a Dialogue can be read at a glance. The colors are set in Settings > UI > Navigator Colors (see Navigator Colors).

The Toolbar

Control	What it does
The dot	Full when this Navigator is the one used last: the Dialogue Buttons panel and pasting act on its selection. It only matters with several Navigators (see References).
The mode dropdown	What each Line displays: Full, Short, Meta or Custom. See below.
The content button	What the Navigator lists. Click to cycle: D the Dialogue, P the Presets, A all of them.
A- and A+	Shrink or enlarge the text, in steps of 10%.

Line Modes

Mode	Each Line displays
Full	Its Command and a summary of its data.
Short	Only what the Line does: the media a Command plays, the destination of a Jump, a condition's Description.
Meta	Its Command and its Meta Reference (see Meta Data).
Custom	One of the three above for each Command, as chosen in Settings > UI > Navigator Custom Mode.

Two Commands never display their name:

• A Spoken_Line displays its speaker and its text. In Full mode, it also displays its Disposition, portrait and voice.
• A Comment displays its comment, in the color assigned to it.

In Short mode, a Spoken Line's text leaves out its Text Event markers (‡boom‡), so it reads as the player will read it. Full mode displays them. In Short mode, the Condition commands display their Description field when it isn't empty: plain words for other writers, which the game doesn't read. A condition then reads "If the player has the key" instead of its expression. Selecting

• Click a row to select it. Clicking a Line also opens it in the Dialogue Editor.
• Ctrl+click adds a row to the selection, or removes it from the selection.
• Shift+click selects every row from the last one clicked to this one.
• Click the arrow in front of a Conversation or a Block to fold it.

Among the selected rows, the Line displayed in the Dialogue Editor is drawn differently from the others. Moving Drag the selected rows to move them. An insertion line marks where they will be dropped.

• Lines can be dropped anywhere in a Block, in any Conversation.
• Blocks can be dropped in any Conversation.
• Conversations are reordered among themselves.

Lines can also be moved up and down in their Block with Alt+Up and Alt+Down. The Right-Click Menu

Item	Shortcut	What it does
Test Here	Shift+F6	Tests the Dialogue from this row. See Testing.
Rename	F2	Renames the selected Conversation or Block.
Cut	Ctrl+X	Copies the selection, then deletes it.
Copy	Ctrl+C	Copies the selection.
Paste	Ctrl+V	Pastes what was copied. See below.
Duplicate	Ctrl+D	Inserts a copy of the selection.
Delete	Delete	Deletes the selection.
Options		The Navigator's reference and the minimum and maximum size of its Area.

Paste Positions

• Lines are pasted under each selected Line, or at the top of a selected Block.
• Blocks are pasted under each selected Block, or at the top of a selected Conversation.
• Conversations are pasted under each selected Conversation.

The copied rows are available in every Navigator, so Lines can be copied from the Dialogue into a Preset, and back. Keyboard Click the list first: the keys below work while the Navigator has the focus, and act on its selection.

Keys	What they do
Up, Down	Select the previous or next row.
Shift+Up, Shift+Down	Extend the selection up or down.
Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down	Select the previous or next Block.
Alt+Up, Alt+Down	Move the selected Lines up or down.
Ctrl+A	Select every Line of the selected Blocks.

Two more keys work from anywhere in the window: Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown open the Line before or after the one being edited. All of them can be changed in Settings > Shortcuts > Navigator. Presets in the Navigator With the content button on P or A, the Navigator also lists two special Conversations, USER PRESETS and PROFILE PRESETS, always at the top. Each of their Blocks is a Preset, edited like any Block. See Presets. Several Navigators A layout can contain any number of Navigators. Navigators with the same reference share their selection. To select a second Line and edit it in a Dialogue Editor of its own, assign another reference to one of them, in its Options. See References.