Project Saving

How to save the project without losing resources

To save a project created in the EV Toolbox without losing resources, follow these steps:

  1. Select Project > Delete Unused Resources from the main menu.

If there are resources in your project that are unused for some reason, it is better to delete them before you export the project so that they do not increase the weight of the exported file.

Important

When exporting a project, all resources including the ones that are unused will be packed into the final built file (application), which will increase its weight. It is not optimal, especially for mobile apps. Thus it is better to get rid of resources that are not used in the project, but take up space.

  1. In the main menu, select File > Save Project or use the hotkey combination <CTRL> + S.

Note

Save Project or Save Project As?

Both menu options Save Project and Save Project As save the project.

Selecting the Save project option allows you to immediately save the project file under its current name and into the same folder where it was opened.

If the project file has not been saved before, and a new project has been created, then the command Save project will work similar to Save project as.

Save project as in its turn, always displays a dialog box with save options, where you can specify the name of the project file, project file format and the path to save it.

  1. Select Project > Create Local File (All) from the main menu.

Local file – is a file created from a source file in EV Toolbox. For local files EV Toolbox automatically creates a project resource folder at the moment when the project is saved for the first time.

The Create Local Files option allows you to create local files of all project resources by copying them from the source files.

Source files are resource files, such as an image or a model, that can be located in different places on the PC’s file system.

Local files will automatically be collected in one folder, which will be located next to the project file.

Note

If the local resource files have already been created, the program will offer to overwrite the local files.

  1. Select Project > Disonnect Source File (All) from the main menu.

This option allows the program to forget all the paths to source files located in different places of the file system and switch to using only local files that have been copied to the project’s resources folder. In this case, the project can be easily transferred to another PC without losing resources.

  1. In the main menu, select File > Save Project or use the hotkey combination <CTRL> + S.
  2. Close EV Toolbox.

In Windows OS many processes are constantly going on. In order to save the intermediate result of these processes, all running applications create temporary data files and use them actively.

In the process of developing the project all loaded resources (such as images, 3D models, etc.) are stored in the tmp. folder. After the project is saved and the program is closed, all the local resourced will be moved to the local files folder.