Layer Title Improvements


Version: 2023

Type: Features

Category: Graphing

Subcategory: Text, Legend and Annotation

Jira: ORG-24917


Mini toolbar on layer level to add Layer title. A new text box similar to those in PowerPoint and Word will be added. It is center aligned horizontally and wrap text is enabled. The size of the box is defined instead of determined based on wrap text result. Changing the font size will keep title box width. It’s much easier to set title width and align it.

Click on the layer title, and then the mini toolbar button to set box width

LabTalk property to show/hide layer title:

layer.title=1 (show) or 0 (hide)

Wrapped layer title or text box width:

  • _title.box=80 //default, title box width is fixed to 80% of layer width. Click on layer title. Box width button is added on mini toolbar to set width. The button only shows if _title.box is bigger than 1.

  • _title.box=1 //Powerpoint/Word like text box but can drag the handles around box to resize it.

  • _title.box=0 //old text object. The size of text box can’t be very precise, It will be decided by wrap result. It’s hard to position text in expected position especially if contents change.

This <textobject>.box property also applies to regular text object and legend box. By default, it’s 0 though. The box width mini toolbar also only shows if <textobject>.box value is bigger than 1.