How to make a Grid Set for distribution

There are a few features in The Grid that are particularly useful to people designing grid sets:

Choosing grid names and pictures

Giving the grids intelligent names and pictures makes it much easier for users to modify the grid set to link in their own vocabulary. When a cell is edited to jump to a grid, the name of that grid becomes the cell text, so it makes sense to use names that can appear unmodified - try to avoid abbreviations or punctuation that might trip up speech synthesisers.

Similarly, if a grid has a picture assigned to it then this picture will appear for all jumps to that grid, helping consistency and speeding up creation of new jumps. Assign a picture when you create the grid, and you can always change it later if you need to!

Action pictures

You can specify the action pictures (speak, erase, print, etc) to give consistency across the grid set. It is good to supply any pictures you have created for the grid set so that people can maintain consistence when expanding the grid set.

Grid set colours

(Applies to The Grid 1.1.0, WordWall 2.1.0 and later versions)
You can assign default colours for a grid set. When a user changes to that grid set, their action colours and user assigned colours (the bottom row of the palette) are overwritten with those that are defined for the grid set.

The user can then change these colours and the user's new colours will be saved for that user. The grid set default colours overwrite the user's colours only when the grid set is selected via the User Settings > Grid Set menu item.

There is no way to assign the grid set default colours from within the software. The colours are stored in the file initial.grd, in the root of the grid set. You will need to load this into a text editor, such as notepad. Below is an example of an initial.grd file containing colour information:

The colours are in heidecimal. The easiest way to specify them is to choose all the colours you want for your current user, and then copy the appropriate lines from your user.ini file (where your current settings are stored). You do not need to specify every colour - only the colours you specify will be loaded.