Is there a way to change the demos and carts folder location? I would prefer it in my home folder. It's much easier to access the users home folder than the support folder.
Something like this...
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/Carts/"
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/Demos/"
"/Users/jbaker/PICO-8/HTML/" <--For exported html projects.
That's two clicks compared to the current five, in order to get to that folder.
I'm new to PICO-8, so if I've missed something about this, I apologize. ;)
Don't forget about the "folder" command in pico-8, which opens up the carts folder in Finder. You could also just make an alias to the pico-8 folder. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19065?locale=en_US
Just create a symlink. Not totally familiar with how the pico-8 directory structure works for the Mac version, but with Linux I open a terminal, navigate to my home directory and run:
ln -s .lexaloffe/pico-8/carts/ pico8_carts |
(The same command works on Mac)
And now you have a directory called "pico8_carts" in your home directory that links to the contents of the real carts directory. If you delete it from your home directory it won't affect the real carts directory; it's just a link. But while it's there you can treat it like that's actually where it is in your file system.
There's a direct solution to changing the cart directory, no symlink required. Open ~/Library/Application Support/pico-8/config.txt in a text editor, and look for "root_path". The "Library" is hidden in Finder by default, but you can use Finder's Go > Go to Folder... menu option to get there.
Be sure that Pico-8 is not running when you edit config.txt. Pico-8 writes this file based on its in-memory settings when it quits, so it'll undo changes made while it is running.
Thanks for all the feedback!
@dddaaannn, Thanks man, that works great! :D
I also noticed an FPS setting but the text is too small to read on OS X. Not sure what it's like on Windows or Linux?
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