TextBox

class Communicator.Markup.Shape.TextBox(): This object encapsulates a text and rectangle object into one entity. Sizing of the box and positioning of the string is handled by the system. This class consists of two portions which control the look and feel of the markup. The text portion controls the styling of the text, while the box portion controls the styling of the outer rectangle.

Constructors

constructor()

Methods

getBoxPortion()
getPadding()
getPosition()
getTextPortion()
getTextString()
setPadding()
setPosition()
setTextString()

Constructors

TextBox.constructor([position[, text]])

Creates a new TextBox Markup Shape.

Arguments

position (Point2()) – optional
text (string()) – optional

Return type

TextBox()

Methods

getBoxPortion

TextBox.getBoxPortion()

Gets the Box portion of the TextBox. Use the methods on this object to modify the appearance of the rectangle around the text string

Return type: RectangleBase()
Returns: the rectangle markup object.

getPadding

TextBox.getPadding()

Gets the Pixel distance between the text and outer rectangle

Return type: number
Returns: the padding value.

getPosition

TextBox.getPosition()

Gets the position in screen space of the top-left corner of the TextBox rectangle

Return type: Point2()
Returns: the TextBox position

getTextPortion

TextBox.getTextPortion()

Gets the Text portion of the TextBox. Use the methods on this object to modify the appearance of the text string

Return type: TextMarkupBase()
Returns: the text markup object

getTextString

TextBox.getTextString()

Gets the text string for this box

Return type: string
Returns: the text string

setPadding

TextBox.setPadding(padding)

Sets the Pixel distance between the text and outer rectangle

Arguments

padding (number()) – the padding value.

Return type

void

setPosition

TextBox.setPosition(position)

Sets the position in screen space of the top-left corner of the TextBox rectangle

Arguments

position (Point2()) – the TextBox position

Return type

void

setTextString

TextBox.setTextString(text)

Sets the text string for this box

Arguments

text (string()) – the text string

Return type

void