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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Axem on May 04, 2009, 06:19:02 pm

Title: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Axem on May 04, 2009, 06:19:02 pm

Just curious to see how other FREDders deal with this and how the die hard ones organize them.

For the record, I have 8. Vanilla, MediaVPs, plus 4 other FS mini-campaigns, then Diaspora and SoL.

Earlier I wrote a batch script where I would just have to type the folder name and it would run FRED with that mod. But recently I just stick them all in a folder and use a program called Standalone Stack where it organizes the folder into a MacOSX style stack menu.

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: karajorma on May 04, 2009, 06:22:33 pm

I made a folder for shortcuts. I also added shortcuts to the mission folders, FS2 folder, etc as well as for the source code. Made it a useful one stop place for all my modding links. :)

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Droid803 on May 04, 2009, 06:35:23 pm

I have...6+
1 for each of my team projects (3), 1 for mvps, and 1 for each of my personal projects (4-5)
I'm too lazy to edit the shortcut, or to type stuff in to the CMD line.
The problem is, I'm also too lazy to rename my shortcuts, so they're mostly 'Copy of Shortcut to FRED2Open_<bunch of stuff> (2)' and such...

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Axem on May 04, 2009, 07:13:38 pm

Quote from: karajorma on May 04, 2009, 06:22:33 pm

I made a folder for shortcuts. I also added shortcuts to the mission folders, FS2 folder, etc as well as for the source code. Made it a useful one stop place for all my modding links. :)

Heh, if we're gong for any FS2 shortcuts, I've got 3 launchers and a general FS2 Folder shortcut in another stack. Additionally I have the whole FS2 folder bookmarked in Notepad++ for easy access. ;)

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: eliex on May 05, 2009, 03:13:44 am

I just have 3.
Mod projects take 2 and one standard mediavp shortcut.

I name them according to their association . . . Standard, MT etc

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Dilmah G on May 05, 2009, 04:25:36 am

I have 6+

I have commitment issues when it comes to FRED. Way too many failed personal projects :P

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: TopAce on May 05, 2009, 07:15:37 am

I'm somewhere between the first and the second choice. I have one shortcut that I always change when I need to, and I have one shortcut for chief's old standalone FRED build that FotG used for a little while. I no longer use the FotG one, as it doesn't work as standalone at the moment.

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Angelus on May 05, 2009, 11:45:08 am

I have 12, the most important ones are in the taskbar, the others in a folder on the desktop.

BtrL 3.6.9
BtrL 3.6.9 inferno  ( no longer in use but still there  )
BtrL 3.6.10nightly
BtrL Mod folder 3.6.10 dfva
BtrL Mod folder 3.6.10RC2

TBP 3.6.9
TBP 3.6.9 inferno
TBP 3.6.10 RC2
TBP mod folder 3.6.10dfva

FS2 3.6.9
FS2 Mod folder 3.6.10 dfva
FS2 3.6.10 RC2

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: Aardwolf on May 06, 2009, 06:10:39 pm

1 or maybe 2, but I rarely use the 2nd one.

Title: Re: FRED Shortcuts!
Post by: eliex on May 06, 2009, 10:26:41 pm

On the subject of FRED shortcuts, did anyone change the shortcut icons to the nicer versions Axem made (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=60840.0) about 3 months back?  :p