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Pull text-symbols from program

ventior — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:34:58 GMT

Normally to create a text-symbols I write them down like so:

'TEST'(t00)

and later click on it to pull up the dialog if I want to create a text-symbol.

Is there a way, that, when I am already in the text-element menu to automatically pull all text-elements declared in the program into the menu so I can edit them from the menu later on?

Re: Pull text-symbols from program

Dominik_Tylczynski — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:29:09 GMT

Hello ventior

Display your program and choose menu function Goto->Text Elements All your text symbols and selection texts are there.

You can add all the missing text elements with "Compare Text Symbols" tool from the text elements screen. For instance my test report with text elements is:

REPORT zdttmp.

WRITE 'test1'(001).
WRITE 'test2'(002).

The text elements are not declared yet and the tool can be selected with the marked button:

The tool starts with the screen:

Run it and all missing text symbols will be provided. They can be added with the button marked below:

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

Re: Pull text-symbols from program

ventior — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:44:09 GMT

This sadly didn't answer my question. I know about that menu but I want to automatically pull text-elements I declared programatically into this menu, so I can edit them centrally while being able to see the text without having to jump into this menu while programming.

Re: Pull text-symbols from program

Dominik_Tylczynski — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:56:05 GMT

ventior I didn't get your question right the first time. See my updated answer.

Re: Pull text-symbols from program

ventior — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:12:23 GMT

Thanks a lot! That was exactly what I was trying to accomplish!