T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Control Elements. Creating User Defined Dialog Boxes
Finally, let's create the control elements for defining the title font size. Those will be placed in the group box
“Font size”.
We will pre-define three choices: small font (size=6), medium (size=8) and large (size=10). For controlling
the value of the variable “size”, we will use three “Radio Button” elements: one per each value of the “size”
variable.
Call the option:
Radio Button
Specify the position and the size of the switch. In the “Insert Variable” window, select the variable “size”. In
the parameters dialog box set the “On” parameter value equal to “6” and the parameter “Caption” as
“Small”. Similarly, create another two “Radio Button” controls, positioning those exactly beneath the first
one.
Their related variable should also be ‘size”. The “On”
parameter settings for these elements should be “8”
and “10”, respectively.
The name of the second switch is – “Medium”, the
name of the third one – “Large”.
One can put “Static Text”-type control elements next
to the switches to provide explanation, mentioning the
respective font size of the text (6,8 and 10) in the
“Control Parameters” dialog box on the tab “Font”.
Once all the control elements are created, make sure
to check their activation order.
Thus, a second dialog is created in the model – the
one for controlling the title of the drawing.
Next, we need to decide, how the two dialogs will
interact. Since the option was used for their
creation, both pages were automatically added and
check marked in the page list of the command
"Customize|Status" (the tab “Preferences”).
Meanwhile, the parameter “Marked variable
editor” switched to the mode “Pages”.
In this case, the dialog pages will be automatically joined into one dialog box with tabs. The tab names will
be the same as the names of the pages. The first tab will correspond to the first page, the second tab – to the
second page, respectively.
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