Text Field section.
This section has only one cell, named The Text, which contains the text, associated with the object. The text must be in quotation marks.
Some hints on how you can use this section:
- Suppose that the text of an object contains some information
you want to use as a parameter for other objects. 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 the 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 this or that object or system
parameter. For instance, you may assign an object to show the
system time, its angle, its width, or similar, as the text. Then
the 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
object, specify the following in the TheText cell:
=_valtotext(Variables.X5)+"%".