Elements of GeNIe Diagrams: Text boxes

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Text boxes You can put an arbitrary text on the graph view window. This text may be useful as a comment explaining the details of the model. To add a text you need to create a Text box.

Select (Text box) button from the toolbar or Tool menu (note that the cursor shape changes). The Text box button will become recessed. Move the mouse to a clear portion of the Graph View and click the left mouse button. You will see a rectangle appear on the screen:

You can type any text inside the box. You can use any of the regular editing tools, such as cursor movement, selection, Cut, Copy, and Paste. After you have typed your text, press Enter or click outside the box. The box may look as follows:

You can change the font type, style, size and color using the appropriate tools on the format toolbar. See Format Toolbar for more information. Shown below are some effects of using the format toolbar:

You can always come back to editing the text in the box by double-clicking on the box. Double-clicking makes the text visible for editing again.

You can select the box by single-clicking on it. A selected box shows its boundaries and two small squares at its left and right boundary.

You can resize a selected box by dragging on one of these small squares. You can delete a selected box by pressing the Delete key. You can drag the box to a new location by clicking on it and holding the mouse button down while moving it to a new location.