Use the View and Change Details options to work with the properties of a back-up or neighborhood. When created, a back-up or neighborhood can be given a name and comments. Date and time stamps are also made, so you know when the back-up or neighborhood was last updated. You can edit the name and comments whenever you want. If a back-up or neighborhood doesn't have such properties yet, then you can create them using the Change Details option which is described below.
View Details
After selecting this option on the main screen (Chapter
3) you will see the following screen:
As you can see, the screen shows all the information you need.
Here is a description of all the fields. These also apply to every
other screen with such information on it:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Slot | This is a number from 1 to 99. It's the slot the back-up is saved on or the neighborhood number. |
| Occupied | Yes or No, depending on if there's a back-up or neighborhood on the selected place (Yes), or if the slot is empty (No) |
| *Location | The location (path or filename) of the back-up or neighborhood on your hard-drive. |
| *Zipped | Yes is the back-up is zipped (using the 'Zipped' or 'Small Zip' back-up options), No if it's a 'normal' back-up, and N/A if a neighborhood is selected. |
| *Protected | Yes if the back-up has been password-protected, No if it's not protected and N/A if it's not a zipped back-up or if it's a neighborhood. |
| *Has Downtown | Yes if the back-up or neighborhood has an (occupied) downtown, No if it doesn't or N/A if the Hot Date expansion pack isn't installed |
| *Has Island | Yes if the back-up or neighborhood has an (occupied) vacation island, No if it doesn't or N/A if the Vacation expansion pack isn't installed |
| *Has Community | Yes if the back-up or neighborhood has an (occupied) community section (old town), No if it doesn't or N/A if the Unleashed expansion pack isn't installed |
| *Has Studios | Yes if the back-up or neighborhood has an (occupied) Studio Town section, No if it doesn't or N/A if the Superstar expansion pack isn't installed |
| *Has Magic | Yes if the back-up or neighborhood has an (occupied) Magic Town section, No if it doesn't or N/A if the Makin' Magic expansion pack isn't installed |
| *Name | The name given to the back-up or neighborhood. This can be edited. |
| *Date | The date the back-up or neighborhood was last updated by The Neighborhood Handler, either by creating a back-up to it (for back-ups), restoring a back-up to it (for neighborhoods), resetting or creating it, or refreshing it (for back-ups) |
| *Time | The time the back-up or neighborhood was last updated by The Neighborhood Handler, either by creating a back-up to it (for back-ups), restoring a back-up to it (for neighborhoods), resetting or creating it, or refreshing it (for back-ups) |
| *Comments | Comments give to the back-up or neighborhood. This can be edited |
Click "Show Houses" to view the areas (below), click the "Change name/comments" button to go to the Change Details option (even further below), or click "Back..." to return to the main screen.
Show Houses:
This screen can be called from a few screens. It's quite self-explaining
really:
At the top you can select the back-up or neighborhood to view the houses of. Right of that, you can select a house number. Check "Interior" at the bottom to see the house without a roof, or "Exterior" to see it with the roof on it. If you want to save the selected picture as a bitmap, click "Save Bitmap". Click "Back..." to close the screen again.
Change details
Use this function to change (or create) back-up or neighborhood
details. If there are no details given yet for the back-up or
neighborhood (normally for neighborhoods for which you haven't
created details yet), then using this option will create those
details. In that case, the date and time of the moment you create
the details, will be set to it. For example, if you create details
on 15 December at midnight, then the program will put that in
the details, no matter when the back-up or neighborhood was actually
last updated.
When entering this option, you will see this screen where you can enter a new name and comments:
Changing the name and comments is easy. Just type the new name and/or comments (the current ones, if any, will be there when starting), and click Ok. To discard the changes and go back to the main screen (or the view details screen if you came from there), click Cancel.
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