Output Process Design - Raw Text Widget

Effective with Release 5.0.0, Raw Text widgets on output images have a defined behavior.

Output Process Design - Raw Text Widget

Overview

Prior to Release 5.0.0, Raw Text widgets and Label widgets on output images could be used interchangeably and would produce the same result. Effective with Release 5.0.0, Raw Text widgets on output process images have their own distinct behavior which is different than the behavior of Label widgets. Release 5.0.0 includes a utility which will automatically convert all Raw Text widgets on output images to be Label widgets. This conversion will allow existing output processes that were designed with Raw Text widgets to continue to produce the desired results.

RAW TEXT Widgets

RAW TEXT implies that the text should not be formated, i.e. the text should pretty much be printed in the form that it was stored in the field.

A RAW TEXT widget should not format html tags. It should simply print the contents of the data field as stored.
A RAW TEXT widget should not apply any APPX "text" formating. In other words, a RAW TEXT widget would provide a method to print the contents of an Alpha field or a text field as stored.

The table below summarizes the behaviors of various output process widget types for ALPHA and TEXT fields as of Release 5.0.0:

Field Type / Widget Type	No Widget	RAW TEXT	LABEL	TEXT AREA
ALPHA	No change to current behavior: Does not format embedded html Does not word-wrap text Wraps characters at end of each row of field Truncates characters at end of last row of field Prints underscores and APPX end-of-paragraph characters as data	New behavior: Does not format embedded html Does not word-wrap text Wraps characters at end of each row of field Prints underscore characters and APPX end-of-paragraph characters as data Default text position is left top of widget area Honors widget attributes If no widget attributes are specified for a RAW TEXT widget, the result is the same as if no widget type was specified.	No change to current behavior: Apply html formating. Do not word-wrap text. Print underscore and APPX end-of-paragraph characters as data Default text position is left center All spaces treated as required spaces	Apply html formating. Word-wrap text based on widget width. Print underscore and end-of-paragraph characters as data Default text position is left top All spaces treated as required spaces
TEXT	No change to current behavior: Does not format embedded html Word-wraps text based on row length of field Truncates words at end of last row of field Honors APPX end-of-paragraph characters Substitutes spaces for underscore characters	New behavior: (same as ALPHA field) Does not format embedded html Does not word-wrap text (wraps characters) Prints underscore characters and APPX end-of-paragraph characters as data Default text position is left top of widget area Honors widget attributes If no widget attributes are specified for a RAW TEXT widget, the result is the same as if the TEXT field was an ALPHA field with no widget type specified.	No change to current behavior Same as TEXT AREA widget except that the default text position is left center.	Apply html formating. Word-wrap text based on widget width. Honor APPX end-of-paragraph characters. Substitute required spaces for underscore characters. Default text position is left top

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-- SteveFrizzell - 30 Sep 2008

Topic revision: r1 - 2008-09-30 - SteveFrizzell

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