Learning Rev3 - Calendar Tutorial Questions

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Selon Mark Srebnik <msrebnik at earthlink.net>:

> THANKS, Jacqueline, for this and your previous reply. It really helps make
> things clearer for me....
>
> Onward and upward.... ;-)
>
> Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> >Sent: Oct 20, 2008 12:49 PM
> >To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> >Subject: Re: Learning Rev3 - Calendar Tutorial Questions
> >
> >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         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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