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About stacks

Creating a new stack

Resizing the cards and background of a stack (Resizing the window of a stack)

Changing the window opacity of a stack

Displaying the current card number in the bottom bar of a stack’s window

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

Changing the Edit Mode of a stack

Displaying a stack in Full Screen Mode

About stacks:

A stack is a BayCard document. It consists of one or more cards, as well as one background shared by all cards. Both the cards and the background of a stack can hold widgets.

Adding a new card:

Choose File > New Stack. (Choose File > New Stack from Template Chooser... to open the template chooser.)

Alternately, you can type ⇧⌘N.

Resizing the cards and background of a stack (Resizing the window of a stack):

  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 “Stack” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Stack Button
  3. In the “Window” section of the Info sidebar, click on the “Card size”’s “W” field and then type in the desired width.
    Window Width
  4. In the “Window” section of the Info sidebar, click on the “Card size”’s “H” field and then type in the desired height.
    Window Height

Changing the window opacity of a stack:

  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 “Stack” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Stack Button
  3. In the “Window” section of the Info sidebar, click and drag the “Opacity” slider to the desired opacity.
    Window Opacity

Displaying the current card number in the bottom bar of a stack’s window:

  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 “Stack” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Stack Button
  3. In the “Window” section of the Info sidebar, click the “Display card number” check box if it is not already checked.
    Window Display Number

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

Note: Cards can make use of these defaults by choosing “Stack Default” for a card transition’s type, direction, and/or speed.

  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 “Stack” button on top right of the Info sidebar.
    Stack Button
  3. In the “Default Card Transition” section of the Info sidebar, choose the transition type using the “Type” pop up.
    Transition Type
  4. Choose the transition direction using the “Direction” 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 Direction
  5. Click and drag the “Speed” slider to the desired transition speed.
    Transition Speed

Changing the Edit Mode of a stack:

Note: Edit Card Layer mode lets you add and remove widgets from a card, as well as customize existing widgets. Edit Background Layer mode provides the same functionality for the background. (When in Edit Background Layer mode, widgets in the background are surrounded by a purple rectangle. Card widgets are always surrounded by a blue rectangle.)

Choose View > Change Edit Mode to > Browse or Edit Card Layer or Edit Background Layer.

Alternately, you can type ⌘1 choose Browse, ⌘2 to choose Edit Card Layer, ⌘3 to choose Edit Background Layer.

The Edit Mode can also be changed in the toolbar:
Edit Mode Toolbar

Displaying a stack in Full Screen Mode:

Choose View > Full Screen (or Choose View > Full Screen Slideshow to automatically change the current card every five seconds.)

Alternately, you can type ⌥⌘F.

Full Screen Mode can also be enabled using the toolbar:
Full Screen Toolbar