Looking for Header Column Control

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Nov 28 16:53:21 EST 2012


J. Landman Gay 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.

I think I'm missing something:  how can we set the first line to NOT 
scroll as the rest of the field is scrolled?

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