Safeguarding your work

Applies to:
Working with BrowserBob

 

During your work on a project, you add different graphics and files to your project, which you choose from a standard file dialog. The BrowserBob project file (*.BB) does only save the path information to your original files and does not copy them to a project folder.

 

TIP: to obtain full path information on the used graphic, click on the thumbnail graphic once (to select it) and hold your mouse pointer over the filename (dropdownlist). This will display the full path to the actually used graphic in the mouse pointer hint.

 

The files are copied to a temporary directory each time you test your project, They are copied and included in your program as soon as you build (finish) the program.

 

Finished programs however can't be reversed to project files anymore, they can't be opened in project mode at all.

Save your source files of any type in a special place:

As BrowserBob does only store path information during the project phase (in the *.BB) file, moving your source graphics or additional files to a different location causes project trouble. BrowserBob can't find your sources anymore. That's why you should create a special folder for your project sources and copy your files there before you select them as part of a BrowserBob project. Do not move used resources to other places during your project. If you do that, you will have to re-assign them in your project.

 

Export your project from time to time:
Another way of keeping your project work in a safe place is to export your project (File->Export). The export process compiles all files that are used by your project, including graphics, sounds, and additional files to a single compressed yourproject.BEX file, which can be imported into any BrowserBob authoring environment again.

 

TIP: the import process creates a folder in your BrowserBob installation directory under /Imports/ and copies all the files into a subfolderstructure there. Exporting and importing your project can be a way of copying all your project files into a single place.