[Xerte] Editing tips?

[Dave Burnett]

Probably. ;-)

I'm just going by the Help file:

Keyboard ShortcutsSHIFT-F5
Previews the piece in edit mode and selects the 
currently selected icon in the tree for visual editing of coordinates and 
dimensions.
Nothing about stopping at the preceding interaction.

It's half way between I'm not sure if I'm being dense (good possibility), or as mentioned, due to the non-happening doubleclick on Draw icons, I don't know if some of the functionality is beggared on my install.


Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing tips?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:15 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk



















I think we’re going round in circles.

 

You select an icon in the tree – a child of a button;

 

CTRL-F5

 

Flow halts at the interaction – as it should, right:

 

You click the button – as normal – then the child is ready for
editing?

 

That’s whats supposed to happen.

 

Now you can click the button again and move it if you want. But
if you could do that before, you wouldn’t be able to actually click it.

 

Am I missing something?





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 1:58 PM

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing tips?





 

 



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.

 

 

It does not seem to get to that icon.

The reload happens and flow halts at the
interaction above that icon.

I then have to click the button and the
flow moves down to the original target.

Now that isn't that much of a pain, it just
doesn't seem to be acting the way it should, and in conjunction with the Draw
icon double-click not bringing up the editor, I'm just wondering if either:
Installs on Win2K do strange things, or I am doing something wrong.

 

  

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.

 

Hmm, as above, I have to trigger the
intervening button, and then I get to the icon I want to edit. 

 

 

 





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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