[Xerte] Editing tips?

[Julian Tenney]

swapDepths is the thing, but you can only swapDepths between children
with a common parent.

 

So, sometimes that parent is conveniently a page icon, and you can
happily swapDepths to bring any of its children to the top, other times
it's more complicated...

 

So you want to aim for the nearest common parent that works, if that
makes sense, and sometimes you need to create a faux structure just to
accommodate that.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:15 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing tips?

 


AFA sequencing goes, what is the approach if you have a panel, let's say
glossary, that you want to have appear on top in all instances?

I have added it in the top level FW entry pane, but when called it
appears to be underneath content displayed in the pages attached to the
nested FW.
I'm guessing that since it was instantiated prior to the nested
framework, it is "lower" than subsequent icons.

Is there a best practice to force it to screen level?



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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing tips?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:46:44 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

If you SHIFT-F5 or CTRL-SHIFT-F5 the currently selected icon in the tree
is set up for visual editing - i.e. you can position / resize it with
the mouse. In this mode, you can then select all other icons and move
them with the mouse as well.

 

That mode only kicks in once the selected icon is reached on the stage -
because if it was behind a button, you'd never be able to get to it
otherwise, as clicking the button would select it for editing, rather
than fire it's response.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:43 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Editing tips?

 

Hi all,

Has anyone gigged up a cheat sheet or is there a resource for editing
practices?

I'm probably doing something backwards, or since some things don't seem
to work as they say on the can it may be something in my setup.
e.g. doubleclicking a draw icon on the tree does not open the draw
editor.
If I highlight an icon below an interaction in the tree and hit
Shift/Cntrl/F5 it loads and comes to rest at an icon above that
interaction.
How does sequence/layering work? I am having difficulty reaching icons
that appear to be "under" another icon on the display.

Cheers,

Dave







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