Selon "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mark Srebnik wrote: > > > 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?? > > Right. Fields in background groups have a property called "sharedText" > which determines whether the text is the same on all cards or varies for > each card. For labels and such, you usually want them shared. For other > things (like the calendar dates) you don't. In this tutorial, you want > to share field text for things like the days of the week, but not for > the calendar days themselves or the name of the month. Regardless, the > field is being shared; the only difference is whether the text varies > card-to-card or not. This allows you to change things like the field > placement, size, color, font, etc. and the changes will appear on every > card that uses the shared group. Only the text will change on each card. > > For this tutorial you just type in all the dates for every month, and > since the sharedtext of that field is false, Rev will keep track of > which card shows what dates. However, there are lots of scripts floating > around that will auto-calculate the dates that should appear in each > month. I think RR decided this would be too much for a beginner tutorial > so they left it out. > > A more advanced tutorial would probably not do a calendar this way. One > method I've used is to have only a single card that auto-calculates and > enters the dates when the user changes months, and any user entries > (like appointments) are stored in a custom property and dynamically > loaded into the field on demand when the month is displayed. That's a > bit much for a basic beginner tutorial though. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >
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