My First Stack Tutorial - Background/Group

[Just4Fun]

Hello:

I've been on Runtime Revolution's mailing list for years. I've also followed the program for a long time. It always looked interesting, but was a little too expensive for me. At one point, I posted to the forum and found some wonderfully kind responses. With the MegaBundle offer, and based on the great experience with this forum, I could no longer resist buying the program. I'm strictly a hobby programmer. I generally like authoring systems vs actual scripting systems. I'm not the greatest at understanding how everything works, but enjoy trying to learn. I've dabbled in many languages and authoring systems over the years, but never really mastered any of them.

At any rate, just wanted to introduce myself a little before jumping in with my question. That is:

I am working through the first tutorial. I'm pretty frustrated. I've done it about 4 or 5 times now and I still can't understand how to change the Month Label. Here is what I did:

1. Created the label "Months" on the first Card of the Stack.
2. Changed the Contents from label: to January 2010.
3. Added two buttons (Previous and Next)
4. Grouped the label and the buttons.
5. Checked the group's "behave like a background" checkbox.
6. Created a new card.
Here is where my trouble starts. When I try to change the title of Card 2 Label Contents to "February", both Card 1 and Card 2 label changes. How to do this doesn't seem clearly defined in the tutorial. Maybe I'm missing something.

I'm using Windows 7.

TIA
-Rachel

[sturgis]

Click select grouped, click the label field, and take the check out of share text and it should work as you expect. I looked at the tutorial and didn't see this, I don't know if this used to default to off and is now on or what, but most likely this will fix the problem. Take the check out, then go back through all your cards and changed the content and it should work.

Look up sharedText in the dictionary to read more about it.

[Just4Fun]

Thank you Sturgis. That got me on the right track and solved the problem for the labels. Sadly, there are some other similar issues within the tutorial. ie. picture is a similar thing. Also when you uncheck the shared text in the label, every other text in the group is also removed. For example, the days of the week are also removed from the next card. I've seen this kind of thing in tutorials many times before. It would be nice if people would update the tutorials that accompany the software. It sure would save newbies a lot of frustration.

I surely do appreciate your help. You've given me enough information that I should be able to figure out some of the other issues from here. Not really a helpful tutorial in and of itself, but fussing around is another way to learn.

Hope your day is going well.

-Rachel