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The Translator’s Project Pane, located on the left-hand side, enables you to quickly navigate between projects and create, edit, and manage files within your projects.

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title1) Navigation Tools

On the top left corner of the Translator there are two quick navigation tools:

Component Selector:

Quickly navigate to different component Translator projects using the dropdown.

Go to Component Card:

Navigates you back to the Dashboard to the Component Card for the component.

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title2) Import a Library

When working on a project, you can use Libraries to store common interfacing tasks you want to reuse in future projects. Here you can import iNTERFACEWARE or custom libraries into your project.

The Libraries available in the Import a Library screen are stored in Git Collections.

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title3) Project Tree

The Project Tree shows the project structure including all of the files in a component’s Translator project.

Every project starts with a Main.lua and config.json file by default. All other files are added according to the interface requirements as you develop.

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title4) Add files or folders to your project

It is best practice to use, separation of concerns, to split up your interface tasks into separate files for better organization, readability, and maintenance.

Add Files to create a new or upload an existing file to your project.

Create Folders to store the different files, further organizing your project. You can drag files in and out of folders to organize them within your Project Tree.

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title5) File menu operations

Every file in a Translator project hasFile Menus which can be used to perform various management operations for the files.

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title6) Project Search and Replace

Use Project Search and Replace to quickly search a file or the global project for specified values. This enables you to quickly locate a specific function or update code, variables, or values across multiple scripts within your project.