sorting by mixed fields

[Timothy Miller]

Thanks Jacque and Jim,

One tiny little final detail... As far as I know, I can turn on  
"Behave like a background" for this group, so I don't have to place  
it again every time I make a new card. But I'm not certain.

I'm wondering about possible problems if I have two or more "behave  
like a background" groups on the same card. Are there any gotchas?

Oops. Another detail. If I'm placing the group on cards of various  
size, is it possible that the group will get placed outside of the  
card rect on some cards? If so, what's the correct procedure in that  
situation?


Cheers,


Tim



On Jan 4, 2007, at 9:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>> I've never tried to place a group on multiple cards, which may or  
>> may not contain other backgrounds, but it's probably not very hard.
>
> No, it's easy. But remember to "place" the group rather than copy/ 
> pasting it onto every card. What you want to do is share a single  
> group, not make multiple independent copies of it.
>
> Revolution lets you place a group onto a card by choosing Place  
> Group from the Object menu. You'd have to do this on every card  
> which can be tedious on large stacks.
>
> Or you can use a repeat loop in a handler to automate the process.  
> This assumes the group has been created already:
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds
>   place bg "myGroup" onto cd x
> end repeat
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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