The
Ribbon is the name given to the tabbed toolbar at the top of the editor window, similar to the design used in Office 2007 and newer.
By default the ribbon is hidden until you click one of the ribbon tabs. You can toggle permanently showing the ribbon by clicking the
Pin ribbon button in the top right.
Keyboard shortcuts can be identified either by hovering a button on the ribbon, or pressing
Alt which will show keyboard shortcuts on-screen.
The Home tab
The Home tab has the standard functions common to most software:
Cut,
Copy,
Paste,
Undo and
Redo.
The
Delete,
Select All and
Select None buttons affect the current selection in either the Event Sheet View or Layout View.
Configurations allow you to set up different versions of your project without having to save multiple projects to disk.
Active configurations sets which configurations are currently being edited. Since only one configuration can be displayed in the editor at a time, this is chosen with the
Display configuration, which must also be an active configuration.
The
Online section contains some web links you may find useful.
The
Preview section has buttons to preview the project and export a HTML5 game ready for distribution.
The View tab
The
Bars section allows you to show or hide the various user interface bars in the Construct 2 editor by clicking the checkboxes.
The
Zoom section can be used to zoom both the Layout View and Event Sheet View.
The
Layout Grid section only applies to the
Layout View. By enabling
Snap to Grid, moving and placing objects will snap them to an invisible grid with the given cell sizes.
The
Theme allows you to choose different visual styles for the Construct 2 user interface. This is purely cosmetic and does not affect any functionality of the editor.
The Events tab
The Events tab only applies to the
Event Sheet View. If a Layout view is open all its buttons will be disabled.
The
Add buttons in the
Events section provide quick ways to add a new event, condition, action, sub-event, event group, global or local variable, event include or comment. If you have something in the event sheet selected, the new item will be added next to the selection.
Disable allows you to toggle conditions, actions or entire events on and off. A disabled event appears crossed out, and is effectively deleted - it will not run or affect the game in any way. However, you can bring it back at any time by clicking Disable again. This can be useful for testing.
The
Search section allows you to filter all the events in the current event sheet by a phrase. If an event contains the search text anywhere inside it, the event remains in the view, otherwise it is removed. This can be very useful to locate events related to a particular object, or to find something in a long event sheet. The
Clear Search button (or pressing Escape) shows all events again.
The
Show 'Add action' links can be used to hide or show the
Add action link in every event. These provide a quick way to add new actions. However, they can significantly increase the vertical height of the event sheet making it a little harder to read or find events. If you want to review an event sheet you might find it useful to turn these links off. Actions can still be added to events even when the links are hidden by the
Add action button in the ribbon or right-click menu.