Coming from GINA
Nag can copy your GINA triggers, so you do not start from zero. This page shows how, what comes across and what does not.
Before you start
- GINA must be installed on this same PC. Nag finds GINA’s data on its own.
- Add your character in Nag first. See Add your character.
- Nag does not change anything in GINA.
Import your triggers
- Click the Triggers tab.
- Click the three dots at the top right, then Import from GINA. You can also use Settings, then Import from GINA, then Import.
- A window called GINA Import opens. If you see Could not load GINA data. or Could not find the GINA data directory, Nag cannot find GINA on this PC.
- In GINA Components on the left, tick the folders and triggers you want. To bring over a spoken-word fix, click it under Phonetic Transforms and click Import.
- Click Generate Models.
- If some triggers listen for the same words, Duplicate Triggers appears. Use Merge to combine two triggers or Ignore to leave them as they are. Then click Continue.
- Map Gina Folders shows your GINA folders. New folders show in green. Click a name to use one of your Nag folders instead. Then click Continue.
- Restrict by Zone is optional. Type a zone name to make a trigger work only there. Use a bar to type more than one, like
Zone One|Zone Two. - Click Import Triggers, then Yes.
Nag picks the overlays for you from your default overlays. An overlay is the on-screen box where text and timers show up.
You will see your GINA triggers in the Triggers tab, in their folders.
Items that are already imported are hidden from the list. Click the round check button above the list to show them again.
What comes across
| GINA | In Nag |
|---|---|
| Trigger group | Trigger folder |
| Trigger | Trigger |
| Search text | Capture Phrase |
| Use Regular Expressions | RegEx box on the phrase |
| Display text | Display Text action, shown for 6 seconds |
| Copy to clipboard | Clipboard action |
| Text to voice | Speak action |
| Play media file | Play Audio action. Nag copies the sound file in. |
| Timer | Countdown action |
| Repeating timer | Countdown action that repeats |
| Stopwatch | Stopwatch action |
| Timer start behavior | Restart behavior on the timer |
| Early enders | End Early phrases |
| Timer ending and ended alerts | The Timer Ending and Timer Ended tabs of the timer |
| Counter reset timer | Counter action |
| Phonetic transforms | Phonetic Transforms in Settings |
GINA’s timer start choices become these Nag choices:
| GINA | Nag Restart behavior |
|---|---|
| Start a new timer | Always start new timer |
| Restart timer, by timer name | Restart only if the name matches |
| Restart timer | Restart timer regardless of the name |
| Ignore if running | Do nothing and ignore trigger |
What does not come across
- GINA’s overlay look: fonts, colors and window positions. Nag gives each trigger one of your own overlays.
- GINA’s “enable by default” setting. Imported triggers start turned on.
- Timer visible duration, Fast Check and the modified date.
- GINA’s Category names. Nag does not use them to pick overlays.
Things to check afterwards
Test each imported trigger with Simulate Log before you rely on it. Imported phrases are copied exactly as they were in GINA, so some may behave a little differently in Nag. The Documentation explains the differences.