Looking for Header Column Control

[Peter Haworth]

Ah yes, that's a leap!
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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