Looking for Header Column Control

[Peter Haworth]

I agree, those new line level properties are great.

I think someone suggested a couple of weeks ago that perhaps Jacque could
provide a demo stack but that all takes valuable time.  When I first
started looking into this, I was expecting it to be complex but it's really
simple.  Basically all you have to do is:

set the <whateverproperty> of line <linenumber> of field <fieldname> to
<property value>

You might need several statements like that but it's really
straightforward.  I think I got confused by the section in the release
notes that involves arrays for text runs and styles, etc but you don't need
any of that if the properties you want to assign affect the whole line.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:

> Jacqueline,
>
> Thanks to you, I'm just beginning to appreciate how wonderful these new
> features are. Has anyone written a demo stack of this stuff?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:04 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This sounds like a good candidate for the new field properties. Make the
> first line of the field the header. Set its backgroundcolor, and if you
> want, add some spaceabove and spacebelow. Add a borderwidth if you want, or
> a textstyle. See the release notes for all the cool new paragraph features
> you can use. Basically almost all the field-level properties we have can
> now be applied to individual lines.
> >
> > That's all you'd need to do. The tabstops will inherit from the field
> and everything will scroll normally because it's all one block of text. The
> only change you'd need to make would be to remove the first line of text in
> your scripts before processing any content.
> >
> > --
> > Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>
>
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