Re: Print Card Missing Objects?
And while we're on the subject - I am basically filling in a form and then copying the filled in form to a new card. This should be done over 200 times, resulting in over 200 cards. However, by the time I reach 20-25 cards, the stack becomes VERY lethargic and even after the script has finished (for 25 cards it takes about 1.5 minutes), the stack is super super slow. I don't have too many cards and I should be able to have the 200 I want, right? Any ideas on why it's so slow? It's basically just fields and buttons. full post below Quick reply, since I have little time this morning and am not familiar with the printing issues in Rev. Point 1. Design the fields and buttons on a card that you want to use for all 200 cards and group them. Now, while in pointer mode, select the group, go into the inspector and choose Behave like a background. This will mean that if you are in browse mode, looking at this card and choose New Card from the menu, the new card will also have this group. At this point, the fields will be blank, since each card can hold different information. You may have a field that is a set of instructions that you want to appear on every card and when you make a change, it will change on every card. To do this, go into pointer mode, select the group, choose 'edit group', select the field, then in the inspector choose 'share text'. You could already know this, but when you say 'copy the filled form to another card', this sounds like a counter-productive technique. If you want the field contents to be copied to the next card, I would suggest a small utility script such as repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields put field x of the previous card into field x end repeat To make 200 cards try repeat 200 times lock screen new card repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields put field x of the previous card into field x end repeat end repeat By the way, do know Devin Asay at BYU? He is a very accomplished Rev guy and does a lot to help others on this list. Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University Hope this helps Jim Ault Las Vegas On 8/17/06 10:28 PM, Sharon Stamps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my problem - I am setting up a stack and then printing all the cards. I have been testing the printing feature to make sure it looks right before printing over 200 cards at a time. As I have been testing, parts of my card have gone missing - on one printout I have a line in my table field, the next printout I don't; I have an image on the lower right hand corner that prints every time, but the group of buttons to the left of it doesn't print out at all. Between printings I have changed the data I am importing, but nothing in the stack itself. (Although I did try to move the group of buttons to see if I could get them to show up in the printout) I didn't know I would run into this problem and I need a solution ASAP! Can anyone help? And while we're on the subject - I am basically filling in a form and then copying the filled in form to a new card. This should be done over 200 times, resulting in over 200 cards. However, by the time I reach 20-25 cards, the stack becomes VERY lethargic and even after the script has finished (for 25 cards it takes about 1.5 minutes), the stack is super super slow. I don't have too many cards and I should be able to have the 200 I want, right? Any ideas on why it's so slow? It's basically just fields and buttons. Thanks a bunch in advance! Sharon _ Sharon Stamps Testing Specialist English Language Center Brigham Young University (801) 319-7907 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: Print Card Missing Objects?
Jim, Thanks for the help - I thought of this, but decided it might be counter-productive, because I didn't want to have to create all the cards before copying the info. I have fields, buttons, and graphics that need to be located in a certain place on each different form, so having the group placed on the card would mean that I would have to run the script to each card to accomplish that, right? I really appreciate the suggestion. And actually, I went ahead and built the standalone and the copying process was speedy (less than a minute for 200 cards). For some reason, it was just a problem with doing it in the revolution environment. I also worked around my printing appearance issues by just printing to a pdf and then printing the pdf. Not completely efficient, but I needed a quick solution and that was the one. I'm still wondering why the problem occurs when revolution prints... Thanks for recommending Devin - he's actually one of main reasons why I use revolution and why I even started programming at all! I gave him a ring as soon as I ran into my problems - but he's out of the office until the 22nd. I was hoping he or one of you would read this and respond. :) And Devin, if you see this, I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't schedule being gone right when I need advice :) Thanks again! Sharon On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Jim Ault wrote: And while we're on the subject - I am basically filling in a form and then copying the filled in form to a new card. This should be done over 200 times, resulting in over 200 cards. However, by the time I reach 20-25 cards, the stack becomes VERY lethargic and even after the script has finished (for 25 cards it takes about 1.5 minutes), the stack is super super slow. I don't have too many cards and I should be able to have the 200 I want, right? Any ideas on why it's so slow? It's basically just fields and buttons. full post below Quick reply, since I have little time this morning and am not familiar with the printing issues in Rev. Point 1. Design the fields and buttons on a card that you want to use for all 200 cards and group them. Now, while in pointer mode, select the group, go into the inspector and choose Behave like a background. This will mean that if you are in browse mode, looking at this card and choose New Card from the menu, the new card will also have this group. At this point, the fields will be blank, since each card can hold different information. You may have a field that is a set of instructions that you want to appear on every card and when you make a change, it will change on every card. To do this, go into pointer mode, select the group, choose 'edit group', select the field, then in the inspector choose 'share text'. You could already know this, but when you say 'copy the filled form to another card', this sounds like a counter-productive technique. If you want the field contents to be copied to the next card, I would suggest a small utility script such as repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields put field x of the previous card into field x end repeat To make 200 cards try repeat 200 times lock screen new card repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields put field x of the previous card into field x end repeat end repeat By the way, do know Devin Asay at BYU? He is a very accomplished Rev guy and does a lot to help others on this list. Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University Hope this helps Jim Ault Las Vegas On 8/17/06 10:28 PM, Sharon Stamps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my problem - I am setting up a stack and then printing all the cards. I have been testing the printing feature to make sure it looks right before printing over 200 cards at a time. As I have been testing, parts of my card have gone missing - on one printout I have a line in my table field, the next printout I don't; I have an image on the lower right hand corner that prints every time, but the group of buttons to the left of it doesn't print out at all. Between printings I have changed the data I am importing, but nothing in the stack itself. (Although I did try to move the group of buttons to see if I could get them to show up in the printout) I didn't know I would run into this problem and I need a solution ASAP! Can anyone help? And while we're on the subject - I am basically filling in a form and then copying the filled in form to a new card. This should be done over 200 times, resulting in over 200 cards. However, by the time I reach 20-25 cards, the stack becomes VERY lethargic and even after the script has finished (for 25 cards it takes about 1.5 minutes), the stack is super super slow. I don't have too many cards and I should be able to have the 200 I want, right? Any ideas on why it's so slow? It's basically just fields and buttons. Thanks a bunch in advance!
Print Card Missing Objects?
Here's my problem - I am setting up a stack and then printing all the cards. I have been testing the printing feature to make sure it looks right before printing over 200 cards at a time. As I have been testing, parts of my card have gone missing - on one printout I have a line in my table field, the next printout I don't; I have an image on the lower right hand corner that prints every time, but the group of buttons to the left of it doesn't print out at all. Between printings I have changed the data I am importing, but nothing in the stack itself. (Although I did try to move the group of buttons to see if I could get them to show up in the printout) I didn't know I would run into this problem and I need a solution ASAP! Can anyone help? And while we're on the subject - I am basically filling in a form and then copying the filled in form to a new card. This should be done over 200 times, resulting in over 200 cards. However, by the time I reach 20-25 cards, the stack becomes VERY lethargic and even after the script has finished (for 25 cards it takes about 1.5 minutes), the stack is super super slow. I don't have too many cards and I should be able to have the 200 I want, right? Any ideas on why it's so slow? It's basically just fields and buttons. Thanks a bunch in advance! Sharon _ Sharon Stamps Testing Specialist English Language Center Brigham Young University (801) 319-7907 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
