Text Dialog Box (Advanced)

Type the text in the Text editing window of the Text dialog box. You can select the action of Enter key yourself in the following way:

• When you want to add a line break by the Enter key, clear the check box Only [Ctrl+Enter] generates a new line. Close the dialog box and add the text by clicking the OK button.
• When you want to close the dialog box and add the text by the Enter key, select the check box Only [Ctrl+Enter] generates a new line. Add a line break to text by pressing Ctrl+Enter.

Dialog Box Options

Special characters

Click the button, when you want to add a special character to the text. Select the character in the Select characters dialog box, for example Ø, °, ± .

Superscript

Click the button and type the superscript text in the Text window.

The superscript mode stays in effect. When you want to continue typing the normal text, click the button .

Subscript

Click the button and type the subscript text in the Text window.

The subscript mode stays in effect. When you want to continue typing the normal text, click the button .

Normal

Restore superscript text or subscript text to normal text by clicking the button.

Underline

Add a part of the text as underlined. Click the button and type the underlined text in the Text window.

The underline mode stays in effect. When you want to continue typing the normal text, click the button .

When you want to add the entire text as underlined, select the property Underlined for the text.

Edit Text Properties

No underline

Restore underline text to normal by clicking the button.

Framed text

Add a part of the text as boxed. Click the button and type the text to be boxed in the Text window.

The box mode stays in effect. When you want to continue typing the normal text, click the button .

When you want to add the entire text as boxed, select the property Boxed for the text.

Edit Text Properties

No box

Restore the boxed text to normal by clicking the button.

Hidden code

This field displays text that will not be displayed in the drawing. The text is hidden in the drawing.

Examples of using the hidden code:

• A database text symbol that can be used to read the contents of a database field. The symbol to be added to the Hidden code field is of the form:

  #DATABASE.FIELD#

  DATABASE is the name of the database from which the data is read, for example PROREG (project database). The database needs to be activated, in other words a drawing must be an active drawing or a project must be an active project, etc.

  FIELD is the name of the database field whose contents is read, for example the project name PROJ_ID.

• Repeatedly updated text symbol. The text symbol can be in the Text window in the form #TEXT#\!#TEXT#, or it can be implemented using hidden code. #TEXT# is added to the Text window and the text #TEXT# after the characters \! is added to the Hidden code field, which is hidden in the drawing. You do not have to enter the \! characters which define the text as hidden in the Hidden code field.

It is possible to read pre-defined hidden codes from a text file into the list below the field. Read more in the instructions Hidden Codes from a Text File.

Only [Ctrl+Enter] generates a new line

Select the check box, if you want to add a line break by pressing Ctrl+Enter, and close the dialog box with the Enter key or OK button.

Clear the check box, if you want to add line break by pressing the Enter key, and close the dialog box clicking the OK button.

Automatic number increment

Increase the first given number automatically by the given value.

Automatic Number Increment

Previous texts / Standard texts

The previous texts are displayed as a list, when you select the PREVIOUS option. The standard texts are displayed, when you select a standard text dictionary, for example system/comments.

Creating Standard Text Dictionary

When the cursor is in the text editing window, you can restore previous texts to the window by pressing F8. You can browse 25 latest added texts. You can browse texts in the opposite direction by pressing Shift+F8.

Add previous text / standard text to drawing

You can add a previous text or a standard text to the drawing one of the following:

• Press F8 to add the previous text.
• Click a text in the list, when Click adds to drawing is selected.
• Double-click the text in the list, when Double-click adds to drawing is selected.
• Select one or more texts in the list and click Add, when Double-click adds to drawing is selected.

Edit previous text / standard text

You can edit previous text or standard text in the Text window, when you select the text from the list and click Edit. Concurrently Double-click adds to drawing is selected.

Simple

Click the button, if you want simple dialog box.

Text Dialog Box (Simple)