The edit screen will display a green text field for each flashcard with each card's information. At the end of all the flashcards is a blank green text field where you can add additional flashcards to your set.
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Card: This is NOT an input field. It just lets you know what card number you are adding.
Clear Card: If you press this button, the data will be cleared from the card. If you press the Update Flashcard Set button with the data cleared from one or more cards, the card(s) will be deleted from the flashcard set.
Text Box : This is where you enter what will be displayed on the flashcard. The fill in the blank answer must be after the equal sign. The flashcard program will format the equation for you.
Requirements:
- Fractions should be in the format of x frac y to be formatted nicely. For example, 1/2 should be entered at 1 frac 2 and will display like ½.
- Use / for division (÷).
- Use * for multiplication (×).
- Use cent for ¢.
- Use ^ for powers. For example, 2^2 would be displayed as 2².
- When playing the flashcards, only addition, subtraction and multiplication can be displayed vertically and must follow these requirements:
- Addition equations can add 3 numbers, subtraction equations can subtract 3 numbers, and multiplication equations can multiply 2 numbers.
- If you want to allow Vertical display, you must make sure all the equations in the flashcard set can be displayed vertically or the entire set will be displayed horizontally.
- There is a maximum of 60 character.
- You are not allowed to enter ;; in your text. The double semi colons are reserved for internal use to be used as delimiters between flashcards in the database.
- Line feeds are not allowed.
Sound File: If you checked the Attach Sound Files box in Step 1, you will see this field on the screen. If you want to link a particular sound file to the flashcard, enter the name of the sound file. It must be a .wav file and must be less than or equal to 25 KB. You do not need to enter the extension, but you can if you wish.
If you do not enter in a sound file name when the flashcards are played it will look for a sound file named the same as the answer on the flashcard. For example, if the answer is '55', the program will look for '55.wav' in the user's sounds directory. If it is not found there, it will look in MindPal's sounds directory. As another example, if you have a flashcard that has the answer '1/2', you would need to enter the name of a sound file that would be linked to this card since the file name 1/2.wav does not meet the requirements. Of course, flashcards do not have to have a sound file.
Requirements:
- File names cannot contain:
- spaces (unix requirement)
- * ? ! | \ / " { } < > ; , ^ ( ) $ ~ (unix requirement)
- : (Windows requirement)
- # or & (html requirement)
- File names cannot start with a . (period) (Windows requirement)
- File names are case sensitive (unix requirement)
- Since the space character is not allowed in a file name, you can replace the space with a _ in the sound file name. If you leave the sound file field blank, the flashcard program will use the flashcard's answer with the space replaced with the _ for sound file name. As an example, let's say the answer was "one hundred". The program would automatically look for one_hundred.wav, first in the user's sounds directories and if not found, it would look in MindPal's sounds directories. Of course, if your answer needs the _ , you will need to name the sound file a different name and enter the sound file name in the sound file field.
- Since the ':' character is not allowed in a file name, you can replace the : with a @ in the sound file name. If you leave the sound file field blank, the flashcard program will use the flashcard's answer with the : replaced with the @ for the sound file name. For example, if the answer is 12:30, the program would automatically look for 12@30.wav, first in the user's sounds directories and if not found, it would look in MindPal's sounds directories. Of course, if your answer needs the @, you will need to name the sound file a different name and enter the sound file name in the sound file field.
- Since file names cannot start with a . (period), if the answer must start with a period then precede the answer with a 0 (zero) for the sound file name. If you leave the sound file field blank, the flashcard program will precede the flashcard's answer with a zero for the sound file name.As an example, let's say the answer is .25. The program would automatically look for 0.25.wav. Of course, if your answer needs to start with 0., you will need to name the sound file a different name and enter the sound file name in the sound file field.
Add Card: Press this button to add each new card to the set.
Update Flashcard Set: You must press this button to update your database or any new cards added or any changes you made will not be updated in your database.
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