ALPHA-VISION® Graphic Objects: Text

Text

SUMMARY

Creating and binding Text.

CONTENTS

1. Text
2. Binding

Text

CTRL+ENTER creates a new line for multiline text.

Select ". . ." via Window Font-Dialog.

Lists Windows-Options which can be activated or deactivated by clicking into the box on the left hand side:

• wordwrap:
  Initiates an automatically Linefeed.
• no conversion of & in '_':
  Suppresses the according ALPHA-VISION Function, which sometimes leads to confusion.
• No clipping of text:
  Texts are not cut off if there exceeding the rectangle.
• Auslassungszeichen am Ende:
  If the text exceeds the rectangle it is shortened to "Abcdefgh..."
• Datei-Auslassungszeichen:
  If a file name exceeds the rectangle it is shortened to "c:\...\abc\def.txt"

Binding

Example: Refresh-Script:

SetVal(Text, OBJ.MyObject.Value);

The attribute Text contains the text to be displayed. Via SetVal() the property Value of the Data-Object ‘MyObject’ is assigned to it. Thereby numbers and times are converted to the default string format automatically. If the default is insufficient a converting function must be used.

Example

Cnvrt2Str(OBJ.MyObject.Time, "DD.MM.YYYY hh:mm:ss");
//The formatted string is found on the stack  
SetVal(Text, );
//The empty argument takes the value from the stack

The Text Color, it is handed over as string.

Example:

SetVal(LineColor, "_Red");

The Background Color, it is handed over as string.

Example:

SetVal(FillColor, "_Black");        //Background Color default-black

Example:

SetVal(FillColor, "");        //Background Color transparent