Ah yes, that's a leap! Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Roger Guay <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > _______________________________________________ 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
