From 35172900c6770ea50eec58ff97d061c85bb03e26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: InternetAstronaut <87543901+InternetAstronaut@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:46:57 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make `Wick.Button` and `Wick.Path` objects exportable as
 `.wickobj` files

---
 src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx b/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
index 73c0a5e46..4269d3779 100644
--- a/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
+++ b/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
@@ -2055,10 +2055,10 @@ class EditorCore extends Component {
     exportSelectedClip = () => {
         var clip = this.project.selection.getSelectedObject();
         if (!clip) return;
-        if (!(clip instanceof window.Wick.Clip)) return;
+        if (!([window.Wick.Clip, window.Wick.Button, window.Wick.Path].some((o) => clip instanceof o))) return;
 
         window.Wick.WickObjectFile.toWickObjectFile(clip, 'blob', file => {
-            window.saveFileFromWick(file, (clip.identifier || 'object'), '.wickobj');
+            window.saveFileFromWick(file, (clip.identifier || /*Clip::f87f8b7d-62c3-4576-a5bb-61ce87768ce9*/ `${clip.classname}::${clip.uuid}`), '.wickobj');
         });
     }
 

From 600cf2fb9b89e4471dfac80d755748f8a55d9487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: InternetAstronaut <87543901+InternetAstronaut@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:09:21 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] changed naming of clips, allow for any non-temporary,
 non-asset Wick object

---
 engine/src/base/Path.js   |  2 +-
 src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx | 16 ++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/engine/src/base/Path.js b/engine/src/base/Path.js
index 5bcdde4d3..9cb49abd3 100644
--- a/engine/src/base/Path.js
+++ b/engine/src/base/Path.js
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Wick.Path = class extends Wick.Base {
 
     /**
      * The type of path that this path is. Can be 'path', 'text', or 'image'
-     * @returns {string}
+     * @returns {'text' | 'image' | 'path'}
      */
     get pathType() {
         if (this.view.item instanceof paper.TextItem) {
diff --git a/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx b/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
index 4269d3779..a99b93d50 100644
--- a/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
+++ b/src/Editor/EditorCore.jsx
@@ -2053,12 +2053,20 @@ class EditorCore extends Component {
     }
 
     exportSelectedClip = () => {
-        var clip = this.project.selection.getSelectedObject();
-        if (!clip) return;
-        if (!([window.Wick.Clip, window.Wick.Button, window.Wick.Path].some((o) => clip instanceof o))) return;
+        var object = this.project.selection.getSelectedObject();
+        if (!object) return;
+        if (!object instanceof Wick.Base || !(object instanceof Wick.Asset))) return;
+        if (object._temporary) return;
+
+        var cname = object.classname;
+        if(cname === 'Path') {
+            var pt = object.path;
+            if(pt === 'path') return; // no need to export paths
+            cname = `Path::${}`; // could be: (some real Rust/C++ codebase has this), Path::image, or Path::text
+        }
 
         window.Wick.WickObjectFile.toWickObjectFile(clip, 'blob', file => {
-            window.saveFileFromWick(file, (clip.identifier || /*Clip::f87f8b7d-62c3-4576-a5bb-61ce87768ce9*/ `${clip.classname}::${clip.uuid}`), '.wickobj');
+            window.saveFileFromWick(file, (clip.identifier || object.identifier !== null ? object.identifier : cname), '.wickobj');
         });
     }