Tiles and the editor

Use the editor to change your room's name and look, choose and arrange its tiles, and set what each tile starts. RoomCaddie saves each change as you make it and keeps a snapshot of the room as it was just before the change.

Open and close the editor

1. On the home screen, press the ✎ button in the bottom right corner. The editor opens on the screen you were viewing.
2. When you finish, press Done editing or Esc to return to the home screen.

Change the room's name and look

1. Tap an empty space away from the tiles to see the room's settings in the panel.
2. Type a new name in Room name. RoomCaddie saves the name in capital letters when you press Enter or leave the field.
3. Under Theme, tap a group, then a theme. The whole room changes at once.
4. Under Tile names sit, choose where each tile's name appears.

Save and switch looks

1. Press Looks… at the top of the editor to open the Looks page. To return, press ‹ Back to editing.
2. The Looks page shows Your room now at the top and Your saved looks below. In Your room now, press Save as a new look…, enter a name such as Everyday, then press Save. A saved look includes the theme, the logo, where tile names sit and every tile's picture, including tiles inside folders. What your tiles open never changes.
3. Change your room's look for an occasion, then save that look too, with a name such as Holiday.
4. To return to a saved look, press Switch on the look you want. RoomCaddie asks you to confirm once and tells you how many tiles change. If your current look isn't saved, press Save it first… to keep it, or Switch anyway.
5. After you switch, the editor shows your room, and the status line tells you what changed. Press Undo to put everything back the way it was.

To update a saved look, change your room's appearance and open Looks…. Your room now reads Changed since you saved Everyday. Press Save over Everyday to save your changes to that look. Rename changes a look's name, and Delete… removes the saved look without changing your room.

Add a tile

1. Press ＋ Add tile after the last tile. A tile called NEW TILE appears, but nothing is saved yet.
2. Type the tile's name in Name.
3. Under What does it do?, choose Launches a program or Holds other tiles.
4. Choose a source: Scan this PC, Browse for a program…, A website or A Windows panel.
5. After a scan, find your program under Golf, Store apps, Programs or Steam games, or type part of its name in the box above the list to narrow the results in every section at once. Tap as many programs as you want, then press Add 1 tile or Add 2 tiles. The button shows how many programs you tapped.

Programs lists the programs installed on this PC from A to Z. Each program appears once, with its file name below its name. The list leaves out parts of Windows, installers and uninstallers. If the scan recognizes a golf sim or launch monitor but can't find its program, the row tells you. Tap it to choose the program yourself. If your program isn't listed, use Browse for a program… instead.

You can also choose a shortcut, such as one on your desktop, anywhere you browse for a program: Browse for a program…, Change program… or a sim's Browse row in Scan this PC. One tap opens the same thing as a double-click on the shortcut because the tile keeps the shortcut's program, the instructions after it, and its window size. The tile starts the program in its own folder, not the shortcut's "Start in" folder, and does not use the shortcut's "Run as administrator" box. Words such as %USERPROFILE% in the instructions are passed as written.

To cancel a new tile, press Cancel — remove this tile or Esc. A new folder is never left empty. You choose its first tile right away, and RoomCaddie saves the folder and tile together. When you add a Windows panel on the home screen, it goes into a UTILITIES folder.

Choose what a tile launches

1. Tap the tile to see its Name, its Artwork and What it launches, in order in the panel.
2. Each program appears as a card. One tap on the tile runs the cards from top to bottom.
3. To launch something else as well, press ＋ Add another program and choose a source. Helper programs go first, and the main item goes last.
4. Press ▲ or ▼ on a card to move it earlier or later in the order.
5. On a program's card, under How it opens, choose Normal, Minimized or Maximized. If you chose a shortcut set to open minimized, the card starts on Minimized. The setting you choose on the card takes priority.
6. Under If it's already open, choose Leave it — carry on, Start it again or Close it and start fresh. Close it and start fresh closes the program if it is still running, then starts it again. If the same program is also installed somewhere else, that copy stays open.
7. If the tile has a main program, the other programs' cards show When GSPro closes, with your main program's name in the label. Choose Leave it running or Close it too. With Close it too, RoomCaddie asks that program to close when the main program closes, then ends it if it's still open 10 seconds later. It closes only a copy started by this tap. A copy that was already open, or that another running tile still uses, stays open.
8. Choose how long to wait before the next card or after the last one: until the program is running (programs only), Wait a set time of 1 to 120 seconds, or not at all.
9. Press Change program… to choose a different program for a card, or Remove step… to remove the card.

Arrange tiles

1. Press ◀ or ▶ on a tile to move it one place, or drag it by its ⁙ handle.
2. To move a tile into a folder or out to the home screen, tap it and press Move to…. Choose where it goes. It appears last in that location.

Work inside a folder

1. Tap a folder to see its tiles, then tap a tile to edit it.
2. To go back up, press ‹ Back, or tap a name in the path above the tiles, such as HOME SCREEN.

Turn a tile into a folder

1. Tap the tile and press Convert to folder and add tiles →.
2. The tile moves inside a new folder with the same name. Press Keep the name, or type a new name and press Save.
3. RoomCaddie opens the new folder and starts a new tile inside it.

Delete a tile

1. Tap the tile and press Delete tile…, or Delete folder… for a folder.
2. Press Delete tile to confirm. This removes only the tile and leaves the program itself unchanged.

For a folder, the button is Delete it and everything inside. When you delete the last tile inside a folder, RoomCaddie asks you to choose: delete the tile and folder together, or delete neither.

Setting	Where	What it does	Default
Room name	The editor, with no tile selected	The name on the home screen and the idle screen, up to 40 characters.	Set by the setup wizard
Theme	The editor, with no tile selected	The look of the whole room.	Set by the setup wizard
Tile names sit	The editor, with no tile selected	Where each tile's name appears: Bottom left, Bottom center, Centered, Top center or Under the card.	Bottom left
Name	The editor, on a tile	The name on the tile, up to 60 characters.	The name you typed or the program's name
If it's already open	A program's card	Whether RoomCaddie starts the program again when it is already open.	Start it again, for a program added in the editor

• RoomCaddie saves each change separately with one snapshot, so Backups can restore the room to how it was before that change.
• A tile's Tested line says "Untested" after any change to what it launches or how it ends.
• Folders can go up to three levels deep.
• You cannot delete the last tile on the home screen, so the room is never an empty wall. Add another tile first.
• Shows league standings adds a tile for a league's standings, and Sends a smart-home signal appears once Settings has a smart-home connection.
• On a program's card, you also choose which screen it opens on and which program is the main program. You can read about these settings in the Screens and Golf and the main program chapters.
• You can read about Room logo and each tile's Artwork in Pictures and the room logo.
• Your room holds up to 25 saved looks. Tiles you add after saving a look keep their own look when you switch to that saved look. The look's card shows how many tiles were added until you press Save over. Deleting a tile removes it from every saved look. Moving a tile, renaming it or changing its program keeps its saved picture.
• To add another program, such as your launch monitor's connector, press ＋ Add another program on the Infinite Tees tile. Under When Infinite Tees closes, choose Close it too. The connector then closes when you close Infinite Tees.

What you see	What to do
"One moment — the previous change is still saving."	Wait a moment, then try again.
"A tile needs a name — nothing was changed."	Type a name in Name.
"This program can't be found on this PC right now"	The program has moved or been uninstalled. Press Change program… and choose it in its current location.
"The scan couldn't finish — nothing was changed."	Press ↻ Try again, or go back to the other sources and browse for the program.
"Nothing in this scan matches your search."	Clear the search box, or go back to the other sources and browse for the program.
"Not removed — that's the only step"	The tile would have nothing to launch. Delete the tile instead.
"Folders can nest up to three levels"	First, use Move to… to move the tile to a screen closer to the home screen.
"Not saved — your saved setup couldn't be loaded"	Restart RoomCaddie, or restore a snapshot from Backups.
"You have 25 saved looks, the most a room can hold. Delete one first."	Press Delete… on a look you no longer need, then save again.