"Text Field" Section

This section has only one cell, named TheText, which contains the text associated with the shape.
The text must be enclosed in quotation marks.

Some hints on how you can use this section:

- The text of a shape may contain some information which you might need to use as a parameter for other shapes.
For example, it may be the height of a column in a diagram, so that the column changes its height according to the value you type in it. So, as you type in a new value, the text gets into TheText cell in the table. Then in another cell, - say, Variables.X1, - this text is transformed into a number (=_evaltext(TheText)), which you can use for further calculations.

- The text can also reflect some shape property or system parameter.
For instance, you may assign an shape to display text showing the system time, or some shape parameter - angle, width, etc.
Then TheText cell addresses to that parameter.
For example:  in the Variables.X5 cell the sector size as a percentage is stored. To show this value in the text of the shape, specify the following formula in TheText cell:  =_valtotext(Variables.X5)+"%".

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