Kind of confused, using LC 8.1.8.
In the old days, I could "Edit background". HC would then put a special border around the window and then I could put whatever I wanted in this background and it would appear on every card of this background.
I could also refer to the background and move cards, insert cards, etc. I could "Go to the first card of bg XYZ", for instance.
Now, with LC, we have groups (but in the documentation, "group" seems to be almost synonymous with "background"). If I understand the concept of groups, it means "some controls that have been grouped together, that may sometimes appear automatically on new cards and that may, optionally, act as a background". Pheeew!
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Suppose I want to have these characteristics, among others, in a stack:
- Every card has a label and field that display the card's number and its short name (for troubleshooting during development). I've grouped the label and field. Is this a background???
- Two cards ("About" and "Tech documentation") are the first two cards of the stack.
- Every card has basic navigation buttons (say: Prev, Next and Home). Really, these should be grouped together, to keep the same location, spacing, etc. Is this also a background?
- There would be two "groups of cards", say "Classical" and "Jazz". Each "group" would have one "Index" card, listing the name of each card of this "group", and several individual cards. The layout (fields, buttons, etc.) for both "groups" would be identical. But I want to add new cards, say, to a specific group. And I want the Index card of each "group" to list the cards of this "group" only, not all the cards in the stack. If these cards (except for the Index cards) have the same layout, and the same controls, how do I "group" them separately??? There must be a way for me to refer to "the Index card of bg Classical" and "the Index card of bg Jazz"...
(My friend Daniel says that I tend to over-complicate things sometimes... Is this one of those cases???
Thanks!