Formula References for Drawing Tools

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This section provides the Formula Variable Names that allows parametric control of Drawing Tools or placed Items/Objects.

All available Drawing Tools, as shown above, will be progressively documented.

Many tool pages will have import/export variable names but not necessarily have middleware access available for those names. These include buttons and colours which do have named variables as well e.g. for ticks, we have a button “hasticks” and the colour is “colorticks”. In lots of places where middleware variables are defined, these names are also used in the import/export of the properties with those names.

Note also that the American spelling of color is used because there are too many Microsoft system calls that use color instead of colour in the naming.

Common Variable Names

The following four fields are common to all drawing tool property sheets.

The variable names are...

Type - used for describing which class of item the object is.
SubType - is alongside type and is just a qualifier that can be used.
Code - is the name of the particular object (text field).
Desc - text is for a more explanatory name for the object.

The variables Type, SubType and Code can be used elsewhere but cannot themselves be formula controlled.

The Desc field can be formulla controlled - only controls which can be accessed with a formula are marked with a reference number in this section, as shown above.

Answers & Setup

Available with Developer AddOn only. This is where names and values of variables can be added or changed.

For more information, see discussion on All Answers.

Library Basics and Properties

Drawing Tools