Aperture book text additions in custom mode

Question

When creating a photo/story book of a trip for a child, I had trouble setting up text other than the types offered in the menu. I did manage to get it in, but was unable to see it until I did a paste content twice. I never truly figured out how to do it, so when resizing some text blocks they didn't also stretch the text to fit.
Is there any instruction available on how to do this? Also, once the book was completed it told me there were three unused text blocks, but wouldn't show where and I couldn't locate them. The final straw was when trying to purchase the printed book it failed twice. Now, I think it will be confirmed, but haven't got it confirmed yet.
quiltnhen2

Answer 1

you have to use timer to "confirm" the letter selected. For example you press '1', you have counter that counts the times you have pressed the '1'-button and then you add the letter corresponding the counter's value.
Small example:
String[] values = {".,1","abc","def"... ...};
keyPressed(keyCode) {
  int index = keyCode - KEY_NUM0;
  if(index == lastindex) charselected++;
  else lastindex = index;
   // here reset the key confirmation timer
   tempInputString+=values[index].char(charselected);
//When timer gets triggered, it calls this method
void confirmCharacter() {
    inputString = tempInputString;
    lastindex = -1;
}Mostlikely not working example, but hopefully gives the idea