Text Box Properties dialog

This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a text box. It contains the following tabs:

• General tab
• Border tab
• Others tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the text box. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the text box, which will be shown on its shortcut menu.

Position

Specifies the position mode of the text box. If the text box is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

• Absolute: The text box's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
• Static: The text box will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.

Vertical Alignment

Specifies vertical justification of the text in the text box.

Vertical Auto Size

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the height of the text box according to the size of the components inserted.

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the text box.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the text box.

Width

Specifies the width of the text box.

Height

Shows the height of the text box.

Background

Specifies the background color of the text box.

To change the color, click the color indicator to bring out the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the text box. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color.

Width

Specifies the border width.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Others tab

You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the text box to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.

Suppress When No Records

If true and no records are returned by the report, the text box will not be displayed.

Export to XLS

If true, the text box will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).

Export to CSV

If true, the text box will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.