The OP3FT is holding its 7th Frogans Technology Conference in Paris – and online – on the 14th of June. It’s going to feature “The Frogans Awards,” a contest for the best new Frogans sites on Earth. The deadline for submitting your sites is June 7, 2016 12 p.m. (Paris time) – 10:00 UTC.
In the spirit of this worthy challenge, I’m going to submit, here and on the Frogans Awards Mailing List, a Frogans authoring tip each day through June 6th, the day before the submission deadline.
So, with just ten days left before you submit your Fro-creation…
Frogans Tip for Day -10
Use a naming scheme for “fileid”s, “resid”s and “layerid”s
The production-chain nature of FSDL requires that you create a lot of identifiers in your FSDL document. And each identifier in a document must be different from all of the others.
For example, say you’re going to use an image file called “icon.png.” For showing that image on a Frogans slide you’re going to write a <file> element, a <resimage> element and a <layer> element – and each element will require a unique identifier. Here’s a simple scheme easily managing your identifiers:
- fileid=’icons_f’
- resid=’icons_r’
- layerid=’icons_l’
By always using the character string “icons,” it is easier to trace your layer back to your resource or file, and vice-versa. By using an underscore (_) you can double-click and copy the identifier and paste it into an other element? By using a single letter at the end of the identifier (‘f’ for fileid, ‘r’ for resid, etc.), it’s easy to appropriately rename your identifier for each element.
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Check back here tomorrow for the Frogans Tip for Day -9!
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