How to display on screen text prompts?

Hi Giri,

You could use "hilight sets". For example:

hs=geCreateHilightSet(geGetEditCellView() list("y1" "drawing"))
geAddHilightLabel(hs 13:4 "Big Label" "centerCenter" "R0" "stick" 1.0 t)
hs->enable=t

You could also set the prompt in the window by doing:

hiSetWindowDefaultPrompt(hiGetCurrentWindow() "My prompt>")

Drawing actual labels would be a bit odd, but you can control the drawing of the label origin simply by doing:

hiGetCurrentWindow()->textJustificationOn=nil

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

 Perfect. Many thanks !! 

Thank you,

Giri. 

Sorry if this is off topic, just trying understand hilight set objects and minize trial and error.

Are the objects valid objects in the cellview?

Does the cell have to be open in edit to create the hilight set?

The only way to delete the objects is with geDeleteHilightSet?

Where can I read more about hilight sets?

I was looking to create a object similar to ruler:
   Can be drawn in read mode
   Not saved to cellview
   Easily view to mark a position
   Without the numbers associated the ruler

Thanks
Paul

Hi Paul,

Hilight objects are not in the cellview database, think of them as an overlay on a cellview where the highlights can be related to cellview data or can be stand-alone highlights.  The cellview can be open in read-only mode, and in some of my testing it was quicker to create highlights than an equivalent db object (e.g. geAddHilightLabel vs. dbCreateLabel).  You can 'turn off' hilights, in other words, you don't necessarily have to delete them. The visibility of the whole hilight set can be toggled on and off, and if memory serves individual object also.  The hilight set can go away when the cellview is closed - it cannot be saved (a global hilight set can be persistent I believe).  Take a look at Solution Article 11230016 for a code example, and this documentation for an overview. It sounds like hilight sets meet your criteria.

Hope this helps!

Lawrence.