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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: Help with Inserting a cell and giving it attributes
« on: January 07, 2011, 05:36:31 AM »Sorry for my stupidness but why copy something thats already there <startingchips> or I'm I missing something It just seems to me your taking along ride on a short trip
The thing is , when you make a new row or column, you have to insert a cell. When you do this a box comes up with 3 options. 1)Add a cell from toolbox,
2) Copy, and 3) new.
I copied the Chips cell because it had the same attributes, colours fonts, borders, backgrounds etc that were already on the layout I was using. I thought by changing the cell name, the token and the decription, that I would be making a new cell, but like i said this also changed the attributes of the cell i had copied.
Later on, (I had printed out the help files) reading the files. I think i finally figured out why this happened after i had finished. I hadn't realised that by just typing in the token <startingchips> would create the one that i wanted. Not that i knew at the time what the token i wanted was. Now I have pulled off a separate list of all the tokens and what each token does so that they are at hand for a quick reference. Yes i know now that its easier if you know exactly what you need. But for some one new at this. You dont always know what you need, or what is possible.
Until now i have only made simple layouts. Only altering layout styles etc, Staying away from altering , adding new cells etc. I do know that every time i open TD. I might try something and even if it works or not , i learn something new. I try to implement things that i have read in past posts and i learn something new. Great program , intimidating if you have no experience on such things a html, xml, photoshop etc. Which i do not have. Me! i am more of a learn by trial and error person. I can read things and learn but its only by doing things can i begin to fully learn and understand.
Anyway thanks for the replys. maybe the question was a bit simple. But i guess if u never ask a question you never learn.
Cheers