The graphical editor lets you create JDR-Bot scenarios without writing YAML by hand.

• Web: the Editor button in the site header.
• Desktop: the Editor button in the application.

The scenario stays on your machine until you export it.

The editor is split into several areas:

• Graph (centre) - a visual map of every room and their connections
• Inspector (right panel) - detailed editing of the selected room
• Globals panel (⚙️ icon) - variables, global events, permanent timers, aliases
• Toolbar (top) - Test, Linter, Export, Undo/Redo and Save buttons

Two windows open on demand from the View menu:

• Text formatting (Ctrl+M) - inserts the text syntaxes into the field you are editing
• Quick search (Ctrl+K) - reaches a room, an event, an object, or runs an action

The button in the top right corner decides what the inspector shows:

• Simplified - hides the advanced fields, ideal to start with
• Essential - the common features, without the rare settings
• Expert - every field visible, for complex scenarios
• Custom - you pick the families to display
• Discord and Terminal - only keep what these platforms can really display

The two platform profiles hide, for instance, videos and image buttons on Terminal, or video on Discord. Changing profile never modifies the scenario: incompatible features already written are kept, and the profile window lists them with their location.

It gathers every text syntax of the engine, sorted into five groups: formatting, variables and style, media, interactive elements and story blocks. Each button shows the name of the feature and a preview of what will be inserted.

Its behaviour depends on your selection:

• Selected text is wrapped by the syntax. Select a word, click Variable, you get v_word_v. Paste an address, click Image, it is wrapped.
• With no selection, the syntax appears around a sample word, itself selected so you can replace it right away.
• When you supplied the text yourself, the remaining parameter is preselected instead: the identifier of an event, the slicing of a tile.

Spaces sitting at the edge of a rough selection stay outside the syntax, and a story block always starts on a clean line. The window stays open while you write: it follows the active field.

The editor works with the .jdrproj format (internal JSON). It can:

• Import an existing .yaml file (File → Import YAML)
• Export to .yaml (File → Export YAML)
• Export to standalone HTML5 or to a PDF gamebook

Fifty undo levels. Shortcuts: Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y).

Autosave is enabled by default, every 30 seconds.

The game interface and the editor come with palettes (colours) and styles (layout), freely combinable.

Palettes carry the colours, styles carry the layout: they combine freely.

Groups organise the rooms visually inside the graph, with no effect on the exported YAML.

• View menu → Manage groups… lists every group with its number of rooms
• Renaming a group to an existing name offers to merge the two
• Groups are purely visual: no impact on gameplay or on the export

• The room list shows the exported number next to the identifier (1 - start, 2 - corridor…)
• Drag and drop in the list changes the YAML export order
• Typing a number in the Position field moves the room and renumbers the others consistently

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