Looking for Header Column Control

[Roger Guay]

I agree, Peter. I understand the syntax, but the imagination involved in what you can do with it, not so much!!

 
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> 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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