On 11/15/12 8:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Well, I guess understanding the new paragraph features is going to take a while. Not even sure what a paragraph is in the context of a scrolling list field - is every line a paragraph? Also not sure if I can replicate a table exactly since I want to have the ability to scroll vertically.
Every line is a paragraph, which corresponds to a row. You can turn on vgrid and hgrid for a range of lines instead of the whole field if you want to simulate cells. Lines can have their own background colors now. You can inset text from the margins and the grids with the padding property, or the spaceAbove/spaceBelow properties, or the different indent properties. Because all of this is just lines in a field, you dont need to do anything to manage scrolling, it will just work.
What type of table are you reproducing? If it's just tabbed text, it shouldn't be too hard. You can also use imagesources in the lines if you need images.
There is a new "soft" return that allows you to have multiple visible lines in a paragraph, even though the script will treat it as a single line. I don't see a way to make that work within tabbed "cells" though, it applies only to whole lines. If you need multiple lines per cell then it probably won't work too well.
I'm using several of these features in my current project and they work great. Maybe that's why I'm so enthusiastic about them.
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