Valve has reworked the Steam visible editor so builders can edit and replace their retailer pages in actual time.
The brand new ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) editor gives a real-time preview of the ‘About This Sport’ part, letting customers visualize how textual content, photographs, and different formatting choices seem on-page with out counting on ‘beta’ mode previews (although that is nonetheless a viable possibility).
Valve has additionally made it simpler to stick content material into the brand new editor from Microsoft Phrase, Google Docs, and different writing instruments without having to reformat—however there are a couple of caveats.
“You may simply paste that content material into the brand new editor and protect all of the supported formatting. bulleted record, headlines, italics, and extra,” reads a Steamworks weblog.
“Be aware that there are some limitations to how Steam can work together with the Home windows clipboard. Copying a mixture of photographs and textual content from net sources (web-based Phrase docs or Google Docs) ought to work nicely, however different sources will not all the time have the ability to protect the photographs. Copying and pasting a picture individually appears to work simply high quality.”
Drag and Drop is now an possibility
It is now additionally attainable to drag-and-drop photographs straight into the visible editor. As talked about above, they may also be pasted in from a phrase doc.
“Any uploaded picture can even be saved within the ‘Customized Photos’ part, which itself has additionally acquired an replace to extra clearly current the uploaded photographs. And naturally you’ll be able to nonetheless work the earlier manner by particularly deciding on and importing information within the ‘Add Customized Photos’ part after which insert them into your description,” continues the weblog.
Swapping out photographs is a straightforward as hitting the ‘edit’ icon within the nook of any picture that is already within the editor and selecting a distinct file. Different useful WYSIWYG additions embody s spellcheck performance, keyboard shortcuts, undo/redo buttons, and automated formatting.
The editor may even be used to tweak ‘Awards’ and ‘Particular Bulletins’ sections.’ Valve famous that anyone who prefers utilizing the bbcode editor can swap between to new editor and the previous one, however mentioned the pivot “will not be fairly.”
“The brand new editor does proceed to put in writing bbcode, however shouldn’t be optimized for human-readable presentation,” reads the weblog. “Good luck.”