Jac, Now this would make a great how to for people new to RR and for people new to the 'new' text attributes!
Maybe a lesson? Maybe a Newsletter article? Just saying… -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:17 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
