Renaming a batch of cards

[Glyphs]

Hi,

I am a complete beginner and am trying to create an ebook with Livecode. It looks simple enough (at least for now...) but I need a quick way to rename all the cards already created into Page 1, Page 2, etc. For now, the only thing I can do is click a card window, then click the Object>Card Inspector menu to display the Card data in the Inspector Window, change the name, then go to the next card, click the Object>Card Inspector menu to display the Card data in the Inspector Window, change the name, etc. Is there a fastest way or a plug-in to do that more quickly?

[Dixie]

Glyphs...

To see this work... make a stack and add a number of cards to it... make a button on the first card and add the script below to it... it will then rename each card for you, in this case 'Card 1' ...2,3.. etc.

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on mouseUp
   push card
   
   put 1 into count
   
   repeat for (the number of cards) times
      set the name of card count to "Card" && count
      add 1 to count
   end repeat
   
   pop card
end mouseUp

Look in the dictionary for an explanation of 'push' and 'pop'

be well

Dixie

[jmburnod]

Hi Glyphs,
Welcome in this forum

For rename each cd "Card 1,Card 2 etc...

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on RenameCD1 pName --••pName is a generic name
  put the num of cds of this stack into nbCD
    repeat with i = 1 to nbCD
    set the name of cd i to pName&i
    wait 1 milliseconds --•• good for the processor
  end repeat
end RenameCD1

For rename each cd from a list of names (tnamesCd in this example)

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on RenameCD2
  put "Entry,summary,theme1,theme2"into tnamesCd--••or what you want
  repeat with i = 1 to the num of items of tnamesCd
    set the name of cd i to(item i of tnamesCd)
    wait 1 milliseconds --•• good for the processor
  end repeat
end RenameCD2

All the best

Jean-Marc

[Glyphs]

Thanks Dixie and Jean-Marc:) So, the only way to do this is by programming? No simple button in the interface to just display each card one by one or as a list, and rename all the cards by batch or individually without entering any line of code ? Maybe I should add this as a suggestion to RunRev...

[jmburnod]

Hi Glyphs,

No simple button in the interface to just display each card one by one or as a list

You can see all cds of stack and substack with the item "Application browser" of the menu "Tools"
Best
Jean-Marc