Project File Format

agcyphers

Problem

Solution file format is binary.

Proposed Solution

Create an (optional?) plain-text file format. The current format is not conducive to work with Git or, I suppose, LLM agents.

Garry

Hello and welcome to the forum! 🙂

Technically the .objo format is not binary, it's a ZIP file containing XML and assets. It's documented thoroughly here:

https://docs.objo.dev/#/solution-file-format

You are correct that the current format is not ideal for Git / version control but it is conducive for newcomers to the field and for convenience / portability of code. I've added a more Git-friendly solution format to the feature list as it's actually not much of a conceptual leap for the existing solution writing code in Objo Studio:

https://feedback.objo.dev/feature/68

agcyphers

Maybe support the Zipped format or a directory-based unzipped structure? I'd expect that's simplest to implement.

agcyphers

Erm, yeah, just clicked that you said it's XML. Don't think that's the route I'd take. Maybe an XML (or JSON) file for views plus a plain-text file for code?

Richard_And_Trisha

I just open the objo project with bbedit and it show the folder of files. So try editing some text in the button and saved it.

Go back the Objo Studio and open the project and it show the changes done on bbedit. That is brilliant!!!!