IDLgrText

Superclasses | Creation | Properties | Methods | Version History

A text object represents one or more text strings that share common rendering attributes. An IDLgrText object is an atomic graphic object; it is one of the basic drawable elements of the IDL Object Graphics system, and it is not a container for other objects.

Tip
The IDLgrTextEdit object class is a helper class that extends the IDLgrText object class, adding methods to delete text, insert text, and position the cursor. If you plan to implement any of these actions, consider using IDLgrTextEdit objects in preference to IDLgrText objects. See IDLgrTextEdit for details.

Superclasses

IDLitComponent

Creation

See IDLgrText::Init.

Properties

Objects of this class have the following properties. See IDLgrText Properties for details on individual properties.


ALIGNMENT	ALL
ALPHA_CHANNEL	BASELINE
CHAR_DIMENSIONS	CLIP_PLANES
COLOR	DEPTH_TEST_DISABLE
DEPTH_TEST_FUNCTION	DEPTH_WRITE_DISABLE
DRAW_CURSOR	ENABLE_FORMATTING
FILL_BACKGROUND	FILL_COLOR
FONT	HIDE
KERNING	LOCATIONS
ONGLASS	PALETTE
PARENT	RECOMPUTE_DIMENSIONS
REGISTER_PROPERTIES	RENDER_METHOD
SELECTION_LENGTH	SELECTION_START
SHADER	STRINGS
UPDIR	VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT
XCOORD_CONV	XRANGE
YCOORD_CONV	YRANGE
ZCOORD_CONV	ZRANGE

In addition, objects of this class inherit the properties of all superclasses of this class.

Methods

This class has the following methods:

IDLgrText::Cleanup

IDLgrText::GetCTM

IDLgrText::GetIndexAtCoord

IDLgrText::GetIndexRelativeTo

IDLgrText::GetProperty

IDLgrText::Init

IDLgrText::SetProperty

In addition, this class inherits the methods of its superclasses (if any).

Version History


5.0	Introduced
5.6	Added CLIP_PLANES property
6.4	Added SHADER property
7.0.6	Added GetIndexAtCoord and GetIndexRelativeTo methods. Added SELECTION_START, SELECTION_LENGTH, DRAW_CURSOR properties.