Hi Mark,
Looks like you're having a ball.
Once you have created the first card for January, leaving all of the
"contents" of the individual fields "empty" at this time, all
subsequently created cards should have all of those fields and any
other things that you may have included in the original grouping.
There is no need to do any copying.
The grouping behaves the same as if you had created all of these
"elements" in the background mode on HC, though there should be some
attention given to the "shared" property the same as you would have to
do with HC. Those items marked as "shared" should appear on all
subsequently created cards. Those that "exist" but have different
content should not be marked as shared. Since I am still far from
being a Rev expert, I trust that what I have said is totally
applicable. With me, it is still trial and error. I try it. If it
works, great; if not, back to the drawing board. Often, literally.
(smile)
HTH,
Joe Wilkins
On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Mark Srebnik wrote:
Since my recent post about learning Rev, I've been busy trying to
get up to speed by doing the following:
A. Reading
Got a few HyperCard books, but some real good ones. "Applied
HyperCard" by Jerry Daniels and Mary Jane Mara and "The Complete
HyperCard Handbook 2.2", Danny Goodman. Both are excellent and have
given me a much better picture of what this is all about....almost
makes me want to go get a copy of HyperCard, it sounds like so much
fun to use!
B. Tutorials
Have been trying to go through several tutorials, but have hit a few
snags here and there....trying to get old HC files off of old floppy
disk, tutorials are outdated, and other issues...but wading through
it all....
Meanwhile, trying to get through calendar tutorial that comes with
Rev and have some questions please....
1. Right Way to Copy Background Group to Other Cards
I made first the calendar background using January to start with,
grouped the items, after that made new card for February, then
subsequent months.. After I did that I noticed that some appears to
be missing from the cards that I copied from January. For example, I
used the table field to make the grid across the top of the calendar
that shows the days of the week. However, on the February on months
cards, the days of the week are missing, just see the grid.
Shouldn't the info (days of the week) that I put into the grid in
January show up in the subsequent copies?
Or do I have to enter the info again on each card?
Or is there a better way to do this?
* Please excuse any errors in Rev terminology....
2. Good Way to Edit Background Group Across Multiple Cards
Found myself editing February card and then realizing that this was
probably a mistake, as I'd need to make the same corrections to
about 9-10 more cards...one for each month....
Seems to me know that it would make more sense to have design that
carries over month to month so that you don't have to change each
month individually if you have changes. However, maybe that's not
possible with this tutorial as each month has different days in it??
Hope someone can make sense out of the above....or maybe even look
at the tutorial and advise....
Trying to get off to a good start and not learn too many bad habits
that I'll need to unlearn later.... ;-)
Thanks,
Mark
Silicone Valley Digerati & Rev Noob
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