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About cards

Adding a new card

Renaming a card

Changing the transition type, transition direction, and transition speed of a card

Visiting another card

Deleting a card

About cards:

A card holds widgets, such as a Push Button or a Web Page. All card widgets appear on top of widgets held by the background. Unlike the background, more than one card may exist in a stack.

Adding a new card:

Choose Card > New Card.

Alternately, you can type ⌥⌘N.

A card can also be added using the Card button in the toolbar in the toolbar.
Card Button

Renaming a card:

  1. If the Edit Mode is Browse, then change the Edit Mode to either Edit Card Layer or Edit Background Layer. (See Changing the Edit Mode of a stack for more information regarding Edit Modes.)
  2. Click the “Card” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Card Button
  3. In the “General” section of the Info sidebar, type the new name of the card into the Name field.
    Rename

Changing the transition type, transition direction, and transition speed of a card:

  1. If the Edit Mode is Browse, then change the Edit Mode to either Edit Card Layer or Edit Background Layer. (See Changing the Edit Mode of a stack for more information regarding Edit Modes.)
  2. Click the “Card” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Card Button
  3. In the “Transition” section of the Info sidebar, choose the transition type using the “Type” pop up. If “Automatic” is chosen, then BayCard will choose the best direction based on the relationship between the current card and the destination card.
    Transition Type
  4. Choose the transition direction using the “Direction” pop up.
    Transition Direction
  5. If you do not intend to use the stack’s default transition speed, then uncheck the “Use stack default” check box if is not already unchecked.
    Transition Direction Uncheck Default
  6. Click and drag the “Speed” slider to the desired transition speed.
    Transition Speed

Visiting another card:

Choose Card > Go To > Next Card or Previous Card or First Card or Last Card.

Alternately, you can type ⌘> to go to the next card in the stack, ⌘< to go to the previous card in the stack, ⌥⌘< to go to the first card in the stack, and ⌥⌘> to go to the last card in the stack,.

Deleting a card:

Choose Card > Delete Card. Please note that a stack must always have at least one card and, as a result, the Delete Card menu item will be grayed out if there is only one card.

Alternately, you can type ⌥⌘⌫.