Looking for Header Column Control

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Nov 28 18:08:10 EST 2012


On 11/28/12 3:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 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?

The original request asked for a custom control that served as a list 
header. It would be a separate group that would have to synch to the 
content field as it scrolled.

The easy solution is to make the first line of the field into the header 
and not worry about synching anything.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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