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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 | [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
