Table Object

The Table objectcan be used to align normal and dynamic text into an "easy to read" table. Format the text for each column, row or cell and change the appearance of the table.

In the Objects tab, double-click on the table icon, click it and drag into the edit area. This will take you the the table properties window.

Table format

Table format tab: 🔎︎

• Table - Number of Rows and Columns to be displayed in the table.
• Dimensions - Row Height and Column Width. May be determined by different methods:
  • Auto - calculate depending on the table's height/width.
  • Fixed - set to a fixed size in pixels.
  • Percent - set to a percentage of the table's entire height/width.
  • Adjust - set to an interval between a minimum and a maximum size.
• Options
  • Sub Pixel Line Positioning - The position of lines between cells may be specified in units smaller than one pixel.

Text

Text tab:🔎︎

• Font name - Lists available fonts.
• Size - Set the font size.
• Color - Set the font color.
• Style - Set the style to bold, italic, or custom.
• Alignment - Set the text flow relative to a table cell. May be set to left, center or right aligned. Depending on selection (Table, Column, Row or Cell), the font attributes will apply to the table on that level, overriding attributes on a higher level.
• Inset macro - Use the Insert macro button for a list of available text macros.

Layout

Layout tab:🔎︎

• Borders:
  • Line - Set the properties of the border using the Line Setup dialog.
  • Effect - Set effect properties of the border using the Effect Setup dialog.
  • Line color - Set the line color.
• Margins - Set the margin size, in pixels, of the table. Margin sizes may be set for the left, right, top and bottom of a cell.
• Background:
  • Background color - Pick a color for the background of the table.
  • Background transparency - Adjust the transparency of the table background color.
• Multicolor - Allow multiple color formats in the Table object.

Options

Options tab:🔎︎

• Cell Options - Options for individual cells:
  • Blink - Set whether text in the cell should flash in and out.
  • Data connected - May be used to data connect single cells to text file or variable
  • Word break - When determining where to line- scroll- or page-break, break between words.
  • Break on chars instead of words - When determining where to line- scroll- or page-break, break inside words.
• Timing - Timing options:
  • Blink Speed - Set the speed of blinking text.
  • Blink Symmetry - Set the ratio between the text appearing and disappearing. A value of 50 means there is a 1/1 ratio.
  • Scroll Speed - Set the speed text is scrolled inside the cell when there is too much text.
  • Page Flip Speed - Flip speed if there are multiple pages of text
• Behavior when there is too much text to render:
  • Cut remaining text - No overflowing text will be displayed.
  • Scroll text inside cell - All text will be displayed, the overflowing text scrolling in.
  • Pageflip text inside cell - All text will be displayed, the overflowing text pageflipping in.
  • Resize the text to fit - All text will be displayed, resizing all text.

Data

Data tab:🔎︎

• Connect table to external text file - Enable the data connection.
• Parse Macros (Date, Time...) - If enabled the text entered (or data connected) will be parsed for Text macros. For example, “%T” will be replaced with the current time.
• Parse Commands - Enable formatting tags.
• Execute Commands - Enable formatting tags to change the formatting of cells.
• Allow font change commands - Enable formatting tags to change font properties.
• Delete empty rows - Remove empty rows in the data.
• Adjust table to fit data - Optimizes table size.
• Keep format of last row on adjust - Automatically apply the formatting of the last row in the table to rows created automatically. (Combined with the "Adjust table to fit data" option)
• Scroll table if columns doesn't fit - If the columns are wider than the total width of the table object, columns can scroll from right to left.

Paged

Paged tab:🔎︎

With this setting the table will display one page at a time when everything will not fit.

• Fade Pages - When set, pages will fade out before displaying the next.
• Loop Pages - When set, pages will loop after the last page has been displayed.
• Extend last page to end of object - When set, the last page will remain.
• Adjust Objects time - Change the object time based on the total length of the pages created. Will make the table object longer when more data is available to display.
• Page display time - Set for how long each page will be displayed.
• Page fade time - Set for how long each page will fade out.
• Max pages - The maximum number of pages to display. If data will not fit it will be cut.

Images

Images tab:🔎︎

• Include images as dependencies - Add a reference to the image in the Dise Movie dependencies.
• Allow in line images - When enabled image tags will be parsed and images specified will be inserted in the text.
• Use image alpha - Use information in the image alpha channel.
• Image cell (text is filename) - The text in the cell references a path to an image (for example C:\images\image.jpg) which will be displayed in the cell.
• Check for image updates - Use when an image is bound to change often, say a web image.
• Keep aspect ratio - When set, the image will keep it's aspect ratio regardless of cell size.
• Browse - Manually select an image, can only be used together with the "Image cell" option.