This View icon is provides a plotting specification for imported text. It specifies the text box positioning in the plot frame of the Display Window / paper sheet. This is used to provide plot frames that can be filled with user defined text (e.g. container for user-defined text boxes, and in the future will also serve as a container for imported images. Multiple Annotation View icons can be placed in a plot, allowing, for example, a means to provide comments on complex plots). The user text is provided by means of a Text Plotting icons to icon, which can be dropped in the a plot frames frame containing this type of view. The Annotation View icon can also be used for layout purposes , e.g. - if no Text Plotting icons are icon is dropped then an empty box will be created in the Display Window / paper sheet. In fact, this This icon combines the functionality of three Metview 3 Views: TextView, EmptyView and ImportView (to be implemented).
The macro language equivalent is is annotationview() . |