The Project Explorer

The Project Explorer is the left-side panel that shows the files and folders in your currently open Klive project. It lets you navigate, open, create, rename, and delete project files, and it automatically picks the right viewer or editor for each file type.

Opening the Project Explorer

Click the Explorer icon (the stacked pages icon) in the activity bar on the far left of the IDE, or use the View | Project Explorer menu command. If no project is open, the panel will be empty. Open or create a project first via File | Open Folder or File | New Project.

The Explorer Tree

The tree shows your project root and all subfolders beneath it. Folders can be expanded and collapsed by clicking their arrow. Clicking a file opens it in the document area on the right, using the viewer or editor that matches its file type.

The file icon next to each entry indicates both the file type and the viewer that will be used to open it.

Context Menu Actions

Right-clicking a folder or file in the Explorer shows a context menu with the following actions:

• New File — Creates an empty file inside the selected folder.
• New Folder — Creates a new subfolder.
• Rename — Renames the selected file or folder in place.
• Delete — Permanently removes the file or folder from disk.
• Set as Build Root — (Source files only) Marks the selected file as the entry point for the build system.

File Type Binding

Klive automatically selects an editor or viewer based on the file extension when you open a file. The rules are checked in order; the first match wins.

Source Code Editor

The following extensions open in the Code Editor (Monaco-based), with the corresponding language mode activated:

Text Editor

Files with the .txt extension open in a plain Text Editor.

Files with no registered extension are probed when first opened. If the content is valid UTF-8 text, Klive opens them in the Text Editor and remembers that choice for the rest of the session.

Binary Dump Viewer

The Binary Dump Viewer shows the raw hexadecimal content of a file alongside its ASCII character representation. It supports a two-column layout, decimal or hexadecimal address and value display, a Go To address box, and drag-to-pan scrolling.

The following extensions open in the Binary Dump Viewer:

Files with no registered extension that are not detected as text are also opened in the Binary Dump Viewer automatically.

Image Viewer

The Image Viewer displays images in read-only mode. It supports multiple view modes selectable from a dropdown in the header:

• Original size — Displays the image at its natural pixel dimensions, scaled by the current zoom factor.
• Fit Width — Stretches the image horizontally to fill the panel width.
• Fit Page — Scales the image proportionally so it fits entirely within the visible area.

Zoom controls (zoom in/out buttons and a clickable zoom label that resets to 100%) are active in Original size mode. The image can be panned by clicking and dragging when it is larger than the visible area.

The following extensions open in the Image Viewer:

Specialised Binary Viewers

Klive includes dedicated read-only viewers for a number of well-known binary formats:

Unknown Files

If a file’s extension does not match any registered type, Klive probes the file content when it is first opened:

• If the content is valid UTF-8 text, the file is opened in the Text Editor.
• Otherwise, it is treated as binary and opened in the Binary Dump Viewer.

The detected type is remembered for the rest of the session and is reflected in the icon shown in the Explorer tree.