I'm making a powerpoint presentation, and there's a flowchart (some boxes, arrows, text, formatting) that I'd like to reuse in other slides. Is there a way to make it once (say on slide 2), group it, and re-use it on subsequent slides, such that changes on slide 2 are propagated to other slides? I'd like to have the freedom to rescale the group, so putting it on the template doesn't work.
Have you tried to select all the pieces, right click, and choose group?
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I have recently switched to Xcode 11 and Swift 5. Also switched my entire project from UISwift to Storyboard as I read it has many advantages.
Now I’m finding disadvantages, I can’t draw boxes/lines on my storyboard, I can do it using the code but that creates further problems with making changes to my project in storyboard and element constrains.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to draw background boxes/lines between text? In some instances I have 6 labels that would all go under one box, so I can’t use label background feature.
See the online example below, of grey boxes
Now I’m finding disadvantages, I can’t draw boxes/lines on my storyboard
The storyboard editor isn't a drawing program -- it's mainly for laying out views and connecting them to each other and to other objects e.g. view controllers. If you're trying to use it to draw lines and boxes, you're barking up the wrong tree.
The storyboard editor does let you configure the views you create, so for example you can set the image displayed by a UIImageView, or the text displayed in a label, or the background color of any view. The gray boxes in your example are easy to do by just setting the background color of a view to gray. Or better, use a table to display those views, and programmatically set the background color of the cells depending on their row.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to draw background boxes/lines between text?
There are some hacky options. For example, you could very easily create a view class that draws a horizontal or vertical line through it's center point, or a view class that draws a line around its perimeter for a box. (You can actually use key-value coding to set properties on the view's layer to do this even without creating a subclass, but it's not something you want to have to do every time you need a box.) Those are fine for occasional use, but if you have any complex drawing to do, it's probably time to write a view class that draws the necessary content in code.
In some instances I have 6 labels that would all go under one box, so I can’t use label background feature.
Those 6 labels should all be contained inside another view, so you'd just set the background color for the view that contains them. Again, from your example, it looks like those are rows in a table. Each row in a table is its own view (or "cell"), and it's easy to set the background color in the same code that configures the rest of the subviews in that cell.
How do you customize the shape of the interactive hover box in Wix? I am wanting to make the box a 3 right angle pentagon with the other two angles the same degree.
Donnie:
Take a look at these articles on the hover box.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/creating-hover-box-effects
You may be able to find a vectorArt image in the images collection that you can add to the hover box
Sample Vector Art Images Available on Wix
You simply select the Add Element Menu item and then Shapes and then the "More Basic Shapes" link...
Adding Shapes in the Wix Editor
Now if you cannot find the shape you need then one approach would be to either create an image using an application like power point and upload that. Alternatively if you can create/find an SVG image that meets your need you can also use that:
Adding SVG images using the Wix Editor
I want to be able to take a screenshot of a certain part of a scene in javaFX. Here is an image of what the scene looks like. I want to enter parameters (such as the size of the area and where the area will be) that mean that only the graph is screenshotted/snpashotted. However the graph itself is made up of labels and images.
When it is screenshotted, I would like to save the screenshot, by either a WritableImage or copying it to clipboard, whichever is easier.
How would I do this? If you need to know, I am using scene builder.
So long as your whole 'graph', including all its labels and such, is a javafx.scene.Node, you can use the snapshot function.
If they aren't already in the same node, consider adding them all as children of a Group, Parent or Region.
The way to do this in Scene Builder is to go into Miscellaneous, add a 'Group' or 'Region' and in the Document Hierarchy drag every label and node you want screenshotted into that group. You could also use anything under 'Containers' but those have other formatting to them that Group doesn't really have. Give the Group an fx:id and in your java code call snapshot on the Group. It's literally that easy.
I'm building a set of slides with bullets. I want to use "appearance" animations so I can step through the bullets with the space bar. On several slides, I have a screenshot image that I've positioned right after the bullet I want the image to be associated with. However, when I add appearance animations, the slide just displays all the screenshot images immediately, before any of the bullets appear. It seems like PowerPoint treats the images as "floating", and not associated with the bullets.
What can I do here?
The fact that the screenshot image is near the bullet doesn't make it part of the bullet or associated text, so it's behaving as expected.
Instead, try using a custom picture bullet for the text or using individual lines of text, each grouped with the screenshot image and each animated individually.
I import Spotfire graphics into Powerpoint quite frequently. Spotfire has its own specific color palette, which aren't the standard colors used in powerpoint, at least I don't think so.
I often must create my own legend or for other reasons match the spotfire color palette, and I do this by entering the RGB codes for the spotfire colors. I would like to do this one time and have the spotfire color palette always available in powerpoint without having to re-type.
I do not think I want to use a color theme, because I want my colors to stay consistent if I end up using different templates (themes). That is, I don't want to call spotfire default blue "Accent 1", because if I change background templates (themes) I think it will overwrite Accent 1 with the new template's Accent 1.
So I want a color palette that is always available to me regardless of what theme I choose.
Any thoughts?
You're dismissing themes for all the right reasons. They wouldn't work for what you're after. You'd pretty much need to buy or write an add-in to do what you want.
For example, it might install n buttons on the toolbar/ribbon, where n = the number of colors you need on your palette. When the button is clicked it sets the fill, for example, of the currently selected shape/shapes to the appropriate color.
You could have different sets of buttons for fill, outline etc, or have the code figure out whether the user has pressed, eg the CTRL key. Click = set the fill, CTRL+Click = set the outline.
Because I was curious I decided to attempt to create a simple Add-In that will allow you to select a chart, series in the chart, and then apply colors.
You can download from Google Docs (revised link)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1v0s8ldwHRYMFFPZ29FNmI0TkE/edit?usp=sharing
The file is saved as a PPTM to expose the code modules. Save As a PPAM and load the Add-in; it will be available from the Add-Ins command bar. I have tested briefly and seems to be working.
Here's the nuts & bolts of it:
First declared several custom colors as Public Const variables. These can be modified using the long value (converted from RGB) to suit whatever you need.
The macro requires that the selection be a Shape, and further that the Shape .HasChart = True. There is some logic to trap these conditions.
A user form has a ComboBox that populates with a list of Series from the selected chart, and 8 CommandButtons colored for each of the defined colors, will send that color to the chosen series.
You could add additional CommandButtons and colors as needed, or tweak the existing code to suit your specific needs.
Although the slide templates have a default color theme attached to them, you can switch slide templates and still use any XML color scheme at your disposal.