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3. MANAGING SIMPLECARD ON THE MAC
See the menu bar? - Visitors' navigating? - Close without quitting?
3.2. APPLICATIONS - Parents & children
Applications & Documents - Locked stand-alone icons - Moving after saving - Changed stand-alones didn't change icons
3.4. PRINTING
3.5. DISTRIBUTION - stand-alone or dependent?
I love the way the whole screen goes black to present my cards: but how can I see the menu bar to shift between SimpleCard and other programmes without quitting SimpleCard?
Press command-space to shift between hiding and showing the menu bar. If you save changes, the stack will open in the same mode as you closed it.
[SimpleCard Manual | Advanced Features | Hiding the Menu Bar]
I want to use SimpleCard for a demonstration at an exhibition: if I disconnect the keyboard, how can visitors navigate?
You can plug the mouse in directly at the back of the computer, where the keyboard is normally plugged in.
Can I close a document without quitting the programme...?
There always has to be one document open. But you can close the current document and open a new one by selecting "New".
[And you can select "Hide SimpleCard" in the program menu (top right corner): or by option-selecting another program]
Sometimes an ordinary SimpleCard stack will open with a stand-alone as its program: it doesn't seem to depend on how you save the stack... - What is happening here?
Since a stand-alone stack is just SimpleCard with an attached document, when you open a stack it might be opened with a stand-alone stack as the programme. Perhaps this is not the most intuitive way of doing things. I'll consider changing it in a future version.
I see there are two different icons, one showing a single stack with a hand,
- these seem to indicate 'stand-alone' and 'dependent' stacks, while the icon for a locked stack is the same as an unlocked one - right? I suppose from the computer's point of view, the hand shows an application, while the 'three-card stack' shows a document...
the other showing a stack with several cards
That is correct.
I locked a stand-alone version of a stack, and that hasn't got a finger-icon, but shows the three-card stack instead - what happened?!
If you save [changes to] a stand-alone document it will become an ordinary document. This is a bug that will be fixed later on.
[For the time being, you can save your changed stack as a stand-alone under the same name but in a new place - on the desktop for example - and then drag it to the right folder to replace the old stack]
I group icons to convey specific navigation information in my folders: can I ask why, when you save, the document moves to a new place in the folder?
The reason is that first a copy of the file is created, then the original is deleted. The advantage of this is that if your computer hangs while you're saving, you will at least have your original file left. But I really should copy all finder information, such as position, etc, to the new file. I'll fix this in a future version.
I changed a stand-alone stack, saved it and quit: so it should now be an ordinary stack - but it was still shown in the Finder as 'stand-alone'...?
The reason might be that the finder does not always update the icon when it changes. Try selecting the icon and choosing "Get Info". This forces the Finder to update the icon.
I see there's no 'print' command: can't I print out my cards?
The cards are designed for the screen, rather than the printer: but actually, you can copy the picture or the card, then you can paste from the clipboard into a printable document (ClarisWorks, Photoshop or whatever), and then print...
If a simple 'document' version of a stack is the same size as a 'stand-alone' version, would why someone want to distribute a version which wasn't stand-alone?
It is not the same size, the stand-alone version adds approximately 30K. One advantage of not distributing stand-alone is that if I release a new version of the program, stand-alone documents cannot take advantage of the new features (since they run their own program).
Can you tell me how to find the four-letter 'creator' which 'Find File' needs to look for all the SimpleCard stacks I've done?!
Use a utility program such as FileTyper to find the type. If you use System 7's [or 8's] "Find" dialog box, you can drop the SimpleCard App into the 'creator' text box to get the right creator. Try it.
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