On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Phil Davis wrote:
> Hi Dennie,
>
> Dennie Hoopingarner wrote:
> >
> > One of the more frequent questions that I get from people to whom I
> > introduce Metacard is: how do you sort cards in a stack? The feature of
> > Powerpoint to show you a birds-eye view of your file, and be able to
> > arrange the slides by dragging and dropping would be a nice feature to have
> > in Metacard. It seems that Metacard does not have feature, so can anyone
> > help me out with a relatively easy way to sort cards?
> >
>
> There's no GUI of the kind you describe, but there's a script interface
> to almost any kind of functionality you can imagine, including sorting
> cards.
There *is* sort of a GUI for this. The "Stack Components" dialog
allows you to rearrange cards by selecting their names from a list and
moving them up or down in the stack. It does this by setting the
layer property of the cards. What's missing are "thumbnail" views of
the cards in a stack. You could create these with "import snapshot"
and sizing the images down, but this might be slow for a large
presentation and you'd have to simulate the drag and drop part with
scripting. But you should also consider that it can also be hard to
use these graphical "slide sorters" because the slides all start to
look the same when reduced to thumbnail size.
Regards,
Scott
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