Changing background group behavior on one card
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:36 pm
This must be a common problem, but I haven't found information on how to deal with it. I have a quiz stack with different substacks for each section of the quiz. Each card within a substack shares three different background groups. For the most part, this works well. If I add a card to a substack, it matches the other cards. If I modify the layout for one of the groups in a substack, all the cards reflect the changes, and remain consistent.
My problem is dealing with the final card of each substack. It needs slightly different behavior from the other cards. In my stack, the only difference needed is to have my "nextCard" button jump to a different substack, instead of the next card in the current substack. I just need to modify a single line of a single script. However, I can imagine needing more complex variations on the last card of a substack.
Is there a way to modify, on a single card, the behavior of a background group, or of an object within a background group? Is there a better way to approach this?
The only thing that I have figured out so far is to remove all the groups from the last card, then create similar-looking objects that are not grouped, and copy all the scripts from the grouped objects into them. Then I modify the script for my "nextCard" button. Not only is this very tedious to do even once, but every subsequent change to the substack groups requires separate modification of the final card. And if I want to add an additional card to the stack after my current, ungrouped last card, then I have another round of manual editing to do.
There has got to be a better way. I'm using Revolution Studio 2.7.4 no Mac OS 10.4.9. What do you suggest?
Derek
My problem is dealing with the final card of each substack. It needs slightly different behavior from the other cards. In my stack, the only difference needed is to have my "nextCard" button jump to a different substack, instead of the next card in the current substack. I just need to modify a single line of a single script. However, I can imagine needing more complex variations on the last card of a substack.
Is there a way to modify, on a single card, the behavior of a background group, or of an object within a background group? Is there a better way to approach this?
The only thing that I have figured out so far is to remove all the groups from the last card, then create similar-looking objects that are not grouped, and copy all the scripts from the grouped objects into them. Then I modify the script for my "nextCard" button. Not only is this very tedious to do even once, but every subsequent change to the substack groups requires separate modification of the final card. And if I want to add an additional card to the stack after my current, ungrouped last card, then I have another round of manual editing to do.
There has got to be a better way. I'm using Revolution Studio 2.7.4 no Mac OS 10.4.9. What do you suggest?
Derek