IDLgrText

IDL Reference Guide: Graphics Object Classes

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.

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
ENABLE_FORMATTING	FILL_BACKGROUND
FILL_COLOR	FONT
HIDE	KERNING
LOCATIONS	ONGLASS
PALETTE	PARENT
RECOMPUTE_DIMENSIONS	REGISTER_PROPERTIES
RENDER_METHOD	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::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

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