Description

Click on the button and drag over the canvas diagonally, then a text box which fitting to the dragged rectangle will be displayed.
Basically thie created rectangle is same as the left side of the following basic shape.

For a basic shape such as a rectangle, round rectangle or ellipse, a text box is created at the same time when the basic shape is created. The text area inside the text box is shown as a green frame. While the green frame is shown, the text box is editable i.e. you can input a text or edit it. If you click on the other place, the green frame disappear and you cannot edit the text. To enable the text box editable, you just click inside the text box.

For a closed polyline(polygon) or a closed piecewise cubic curve, a textbox isn't created when the shape is created, because these type of shape will be almost always modified or fine-tuned after its creation. So when you get a satisfactory shape, you might want to add a text box to the shape. At that time you can add a text box using "add textbox" command.
If you want to remove the text box from the shape, you just use "delete textbox" command.
The figure below shows the scene when the "add textbox" command is executed.

The calculation to define the appropriate text box area tries to find a　 rectangle as large as possible which is inscribing to the shape boundary.　 The calculation may be good for a convex shape, but not always satisfactory　 for a concave shape (see the Figure_(c)). Therefore we provide the way　　 　　to change the text box area (move text box boundary).

Figure_(a)	Figure_(b)	Figure_(c)

Figure_(c) shows that the rectangle at the arrow shape may be larger than that at the center of the shape.

Click inside a text area then the green frame is displayed. While the green frame is displayed, you can move the edge of the green frame by resize cursors. The resize cursors : are available for this operation, but the diagonal resize cursor : are unavailable.

Figure(a) Original	Figure_(b) Move the upper edge downward.
Figure_(c) Move the left edge rightward	Figure (d) Move the lower edge upward

The case that an edge of the green frame is moved largely
If you move the edge largely beyond the bounging box of the shape, the shape will be also resized largely as the figure below.
Note: If you back the same edge to its original position, the shape won't be resized smaller (Figure (h)).

Figure(e) Original	Figure (f) Move the lower edge downward.
Figure (g) Move the lower edge downward largely	Figure (h) Move the lower edge upward.

A group

A text box in a group can be handled in the same manner described above.

Original

Move the lower edge downward largely, thren the shape is also resized.

The selected shape can be changed to the component shape registered in the Component lib dialog by pressing "change shape" button.
The shape having a text box will be changed to the component shape with keeping the size of the text box.

OriginalChanged shape

In appearance, a shape can have multiple text boxes using grouping function. Inputting or editing a text in one of the text boxes can be done without ungrouping or regrouping operation (activate text box).
For example, the figure (a) shows that a round rectangle with a text box is placed inside a star mark and the two shapes are grouped. Resizing this group smaller also makes the text box smaller and consequently a part of the text becomes invisible. This kind of problem may offen happens when we are doing detailed works.
The text box can be enlarged using the above mentioned function (move text box boundary), so that all the text is visible.
As the result, the opetaion for the text in a group is almost similar to the operation in a single shape.
Therefore, both the methods can be used properly according to the purpose.

Select the "shape format" item in the popup menu, then the following dialog will open.
Select "text box" tab in the dialog and set formats of the text box.

⋅ Text Align：text align left / text align center / text align right
These buttons are the same as the text align button.
⋅ Internal margine：left / right / top / bottom margin (millimeter).
⋅ Text line space：millimeter.
=>Shape format dialog

Description

If you click inside an existing text box, the text box will be selected and displayed with a green frame (see below). Here "green frame" means that the text box is editable. If a gray frame is displayed in the text box, it is not editable.
: You can select a text box in a group by clicking inside the text box ( Figure_(a), (b)).

(a)Click on the left upper text box　　　　(b)Click on the right lower text box

=> Text box

The way of inputting text is the same as ordinary word processors. To input Japanese text, Kana-kanji converter is used. After the kana have been input, they are converted to a kanji and displayed with a dotted underline. If the converted kanji is not appropriate, a list of candidate kanji for the input kana will be displayed by pressing conversion key or space key. You can select the correct kanji moving cursor or specifying the number.

The text cursor (caret) is displayed as the red vertical line and it indicates the text input position.
To move the cursor, click with the mouse on the desirable position in the text box, or press the PageUp, PageDown, Home or End key.

To select text, drag with the mouse over the text, then the selected text part will be displayed with pink background color.

: Click the mouse and click the mouse again with holding down Shift/Ctrl key, then the text between the first click and the second click will be selected.

To cut or copy text, select the text and select "cut" or "copy" menu item in "edit" menu.
To paste the selected text, move the text cursor to the paste position and select "paste" menu in "edit" menu.
To delete text, select the text and click on the "del" button or press "Back Space" key.
To delete one character, move the text cursor to the backward position of the character and press "Back Space" key.

: "Ctrl+x", "Ctrl+c" and "Ctrl+v" are the accelerators of "cut, "copy" and "paste" commands respectively.
: If you copy text from an external application (e.g. MS-Word) and paste the text into a text box of this application, then the text will be pasted as plain text (unformatted text).
The reverse-operation (e.g. this application -> MS-Word) is also the same.

Setting of font family, font size, bold, italic, underline, super script/subscript and font color.
To set font attribute, click inside a text box, select text by dragging over the text and finally specify the attribute in the "Font menu" dialog.

Font menu dialog

=> font　

: If any text isn't selected in the selected shape or group object, the specified font attribute will be set to all the text in the selected shape or group (Figure_(a),(b)).

(b) Set Bold and Italic to the group

If the selected text has common font attributes, the attributes will be reflected to the "Font menu" dialog. In the following figure, all the characters of the selected text have the same attributes, i.e. bold, italic, underline, so the corresponding buttons in the "Font menu" are displayed as "selected".
If no text is selected, the attributes of the character before the text cursor will be reflected to the "Font menu" dialog.

text align left/text align center/text align right
=> text align, shape format