Sculptor doesnt save my changes

Hi,

its very strange. I selct a design, make some changes and save it under an other name. that works perfect.

no, when I reopen my saved design and make again some changes and save them.

then they are not saved :-(

What am I doing wrong?

Denis

I understand in general what you are saying but if you could post back with a specific example and steps I could take that yield this result for you I will be able to look into this issue further. Please also include info about your OS and DW version as well.

Its very difficult to explain. I make changes to my custom disgn, and these changes arent saved. I always have to take a NEW name.

I got a German PC, German Windows Vista Home Pro, CS3 German, extension last version incl. that FIX.

And right now, CSS tags are entered I dont know who made them ?

And if I select a line in Sculptor, the line under my selected line is selected, and changes are not to see or dont happen.

See the red in the image.

For me, its very hard to work with sculptor even if I like the extension, but those little errors are not good for fast work :-)

Any other infos needed?

Denis

To try and test this out I created a new Sculptor page. I made a couple of edits to the page then clicked on finish. I was prompted to save a preset, so I made a new name and saved the preset. I then went and created a new Sculptor page, this time I made a single change to the new preset that I created. When done I clicked on finish and when prompted to save a new preset I just saved over the existing one I had created. I was then prompted to confirm overwriting the original preset. When I went to create another Sculptor page I checked the areas that I had edited and saw that my edits had been retained.

If you could give me a similar series of steps that you are taking that make it so the preset is not overwritten I would then be able to test this out to see if I can reproduce the result you are experiencing.

Hi Eric,

I think the trick is always check the SAVE AS box. Even when the right name is already written. I thought, the checkbox SAVE AS, is there, to create a new name and not to overwrite the choosen design. So I never checked the box, cause, I didnt want to create an new name.
But it seems, to save changes to the same design, I have to check the box, too. This is a little strange. Or am I wrong? maybe you can fix that in an update:-)

thanks for maken me doing it step by step, so I found the reason why.

Thanks a lot,
Denis

I'm glad that you were able to work around this. The checkbox there can be a little confusing but you just have to keep in mind that you will not be saving any of your work unless you have the box checked when referencing an existing preset, or enter a new preset value.

I am having the same problem. I am using DW CS4. I created a new style, made some changes to the layout, background, text, etc. I then saved out my new layout as a preset with its own unique name. When returning to the program to make some more changes I clicked on the "Preset Manager" icon for CSS Sculptor, located my design and clicked on "Edit". I then made some more changes to my design. When I was ready to quit I clicked "Finish". Then "Finish" again, then in the Preset manager "Done". None of my changes had been saved. There is no "Save as" checkbox when editing, only when creating the initial preset. It does no good to use the "New Sculptor" menu. Sure you can make changes, but it also creates duplicate files in the DW tree. Can you help?

Ed

When you want to edit an existing layout you will start off in the layout or preset manager and select the CSS Sculptor Layout you want to change, then click edit. When the Sculptor interface appears you will select to customize the css. When you customize the preset from here and click on finish you should have the ability to save over the existing preset or create a new preset based on your edits.

Does this option just now show up for you when you after you edit an existing preset? Do you get this option to appear when you create a new layout from within CSS Sculptor? Please post back with this info so we can determine how to proceed.

I guess I am some what confused about what the CSS Sculptor actually does. I had no problem with creating my first layout. I saved it as a preset to be used again. After saving, Sculptor created a html page which I saved as "Start". Since I had only worked on the general layout of my new page, I wished to return to it to continue editing. Here, I started by clicking on the "Preset Manager" icon. I clicked on the layout I had saved before and clicked "Edit". I made the changes I wanted and clicked "Finish" in two different screens and finally "Done". The changes I had made were saved, but not to the "Start" html page. Am I to believe that any consequent changes are only to the layout and not to the html page? I can update the "Start" html, by creating a new page and save the changes. A new html page is created with the new changes, but also creates two new files; the CSS file and the images file. I had assumed that after editing the layout, that the changes would be saved to the original html file accordingly.

The updates that you make to the layout will not be saved to the already outputed page that was created earlier. It will just update the preset. When you have the preset updated the way you would like it you can just create a new page from that preset, the previous page you were working on would no longer be used. You can save over it with your new Sculptor page if you do not need the other page any longer.