Text Properties - Text

To display/modify text properties,

  • left-click on the text and press hotkey F2 to begin editing the text, or

  • right-click on the text, select Text Properties... from the displayed context menu and select the Text view. To select more than one piece of text for modification, hold down the 'shift' key, then left-click on each piece of text and right-click on the final one to display the context menu.

  • Or left-click on the text to highlight it (or for multiple text, left-click on each piece of text while holding down the 'shift' key), select Format -> Text Properties... from the Main Menu bar and select the Text view.

  • Double left-click on the text.

     

    The Text Properties dialog appears:

     

 

Text, such as device designation or a reference signal-text, can consist of only one line (no scroll bar is displayed on the right edge of the dialog box). Entry is completed by pressing the Enter key (or by clicking the OK button on the dialog box).

 

Line breaks

Line breaks, i.e. starting a new line with texts consisting of several lines can be done by pressing CTRL+Enter (a scroll bar is displayed on the right edge of the dialog box). It is completed by clicking on the OK button on the dialog box.

 

Attention!

If reference text is edited, the signal of the whole net will be changed.

It is not possible change multiple signals.

 

Text

Text type

Displays the selected text type.

Source

Displays the source defined in the database editor.

 

See also under: Database Editor - Text Properties - Text

Text

Displays information on the text type (unless text of different types has been selected).

  • Existing text can be changed. This area is only active if one piece of text is selected. If more than one piece of text is selected, then only the font, level and visibility can be modified.

  • In the case where dimension text is to be changed, the area is active if one or several dimension arrows are selected. A fixed value can be entered or Automatic can be selected in the Drop-down list box, allowing you to delete a previously defined fixed text. Text will then automatically be entered by the system depending upon the actual dimension determined by the dimension arrows.

  • Graphic text consisting of several lines can be changed. This area is only active if one piece of text is selected.

Hotkeys F3/F5

F3: Select texts from translation database; F5: Toggle between Edit and Preview mode

 

These hotkeys are only active, if entries have been made in the 'Description' column in the 'Language' database. If no Language database exists, this button is inactive.

 

The columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order.

 

Allows for selection of text from the text database.

 

Required text is selected by:

  • clicking in the gray box to the left of the text and clicking on the OK button, or

  • by simply double-clicking in the gray box

 

Sorting of the text is controlled with Settings -> General -> Language. If only one language was selected in the settings, then only one language would be displayed in the Translation Table dialog. A modification of the language(s) or reloading the configuration data will update the graphic texts.

 

Multi-line symbol text is possible for translatable symbol text.

 

Multiple-line text from a Promis text database is converted using a script (^ becomes \r\n). It can be edited in the dialog box in Database Editor mode.

 

To achieve a line break, you have to enter Ctrl+Ret.

 

See also Translation Table

Type of Hyperlink

Select the desired type of hyperlink. The following types are available:

  • Internet

  • File

  • Document

  • Sheet

  • Symbol

 

When changing the entry to <no entry>, the assigned hyperlink will be deleted for the selected text.

Target

The desired target, to which the hyperlink should point, can be selected from the selection list.

 

One can also select the <marked object> in order to define the marked object as the target beforehand using Mark for Hyperlink.

Click on the push button to open the dialog from which the desired file can be selected. This push button can only be selected if the type File was selected beforehand as the Type of Hyperlink.

Effects

Invisible

Text can be defined as either visible or invisible by clicking in the checkbox.

 

Visibility can be changed for Device and Symbol texts.

 

Graphic text and dimension arrows are always visible and the 'Invisible' checkbox would be inactive. Visibility can only be controlled via the level.

Lock position

This option prevents text that is not assigned to a symbol from being moved. When a symbol with such a text assigned is moved in project mode, the text is moved along with the symbol, but it cannot be separately be moved in relation to the symbol's origin.

 

When such texts are selected in addition to other objects, it is possible to move but those locked texts are ignored.

This option can also be used for free texts (comment texts) that are not assigned to a symbol.

 

When displaying such locked texts, optical differences occur. When the texts are selected, the left lower handle is represented by a key icon.

 

Example
 

 

Note

To move locked objects, press the F key in the schematic while moving and the F key in the panel before moving, to still move objects with locked position.

Single-line

For text nodes it is possible to define whether multi-line texts shall be displayed as single-line. When outputting, all line breaks in the text are replaced by a blank space.

 

This applies to multi-line symbol and model texts.

Reset text box

It is possible to define a text box at texts, that represents the max. width/height of the text. This text box is represented as a rectangle, that will then contain the text. A line break of the texts takes place automatically.

 

This box is defined by modifying the text handles (e.g. increase/decrease in size, etc.).

 

To delete such a text box, this option must be checked.

 

This option is only active, when a box is already defined.

 

Please consider the remarks!

  • The texts are broken at the defined box width, preferably after a blank, a tab or a one of the following characters: . ? ! ; : -

    If none of these characters is found within the defined width, the line break is made in the middle of the word.

  • Only as many lines are output as fit into the defined box height. The remainder of the text is cut off.

  • Definition of a text box is possible for all text types.

  • The text box can already be defined for the symbol text in the database editor. But only, if text contents in the database editor are displayed, and not if number or description of the text types is displayed.

  • In Database Editor mode, the text box on a symbol- or a model sheet is represented as a dotted rectangle.

  • Even though it is possible to select some texts on a component sheet (in database editor mode), a text box cannot be defined.

Pictogram

When checked, the translatable passage is displayed as pictogram, if defined.

 

See Pictograms Can Be Used as a Language

Linear measure without unit

When checked, the length unit at texts with length specification is suppressed.

 

Note

It is only checked, when the text displays an attribute of the type 'linear measure'.

Level

Defines the drawing level on which the text will be placed.

  • Levels range from 1..256

  • ... can be hidden and displayed globally

 

Can be applied to all texts (symbol, graphic and dimension).

Position

The position (X-position; Y-position) as well as the sheet coordinates of the text are displayed by use of two text fields.
Ballooning

Arc/Oval/Rectangle / Ellipse

All texts, except for fix symbol texts, can be defined as ballooning texts.

 

The ballooning text can be displayed within

  • a circle (arc),

  • an oval,

  • a rectangle or

  • an ellipse.

Display subsidiary line to owner

This option defines whether a subsidiary line is to be displayed to the owner.

 

The following applies:

  • If the owner is a pin, the line is displayed to the pin.

  • If the owner is a symbol, the line is drawn depending on the checked/unchecked setting Subsidiary line to graphic (under Settings -> Graphic -> Text -> Effects:).

  • It is impossible with commentary or sheet texts.

Line

A Line will be inserted on the top/in the centre/at the bottom of the text box by clicking this option.