Documentation for Intellect 4.10.4. Documentation for other versions of Intellect is available too.

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To set the field variables, follow these steps:

  1. In order to set the field variables, it is necessary to select the variables of the object in the workspace, and open the Variables field in one the following ways:
    1. Click  on the toolbar;

    2. In the object functional menu, select Properties.

      Note.

      The object functional menu is opened by right-clicking anywhere inside the object.

  2. The Field variables window will appear.
  3. In the text field (1) enter information describing the field:
    1. Enter text in Text field, which will be displayed in the text field.
    2. For Variable, enter the variable name.
    3. For an Image, enter the image address in quotes. The image must be placed in one of the following folders:
      1. In the Intellect software installation folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Intellect), then in the field (1) enter the image name, e.g. “image.bmp”.
      2. In the Bmp folder of the Intellect software installation folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Intellect\Bmp), then enter the image file address as "Bmp\image.bmp" or "Bmp/image.bmp".
  4. If you would like to fill in the text field with data from a text file or enter a large amount of data, then click the  button (2) and use a text editor (see the section in APPENDIX 2. Entering text using the editor).
  5. Set the Alignment settings for the desired justification of the text within a selected object (3).
  6. Select units of measure which will be used to size the object:
    1. If the size of the object will be given in millimeters, then check the in mm box (5).

    2. If the size of the object will be given in characters [symbols], then check the Width in symbols box (9).

      Note.

      The size of the object is given in characters [symbols] by default.
  7. Set the position of the upper left of the object in one of the following ways:
    1. Specify the absolute coordinates of the object. In this case you should indicate the position of the upper left corner by setting the X-axis in the X field, and the Y-axis in the Y field: (6)
    2. Specify the relative coordinates of the object. In this case you should check the Relative box (4).
  8. The width and height of the object can be set in one of the following ways:
    1. Specify the width of the object in the W field, and the height of object in the H field (7).
    2. Specify the coordinates of the lower-right corner. To do this, check the Х2, Y2 box (8). The W and H fields will be by X2 and Y2. After this, specify the coordinates of the lower-right corner of the object using the Х2 field for the x-axis and the Y2 field for the y-axis.
  9. Specify the line thickness in the Line thickness field in the desired units (10).
  10. If a custom object should be on the badge or there is a dialog window, but it should not be visible to the user, then check the Hidden box (11).
  11. If the object must be part of a group, check the Group box (12).
  12. Click OK (13).

Setting the variables is completed.

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