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Open: Plaintext

This is a Plaintext window.

Plaintext windows are opened when you click on an Object assigned with the Open Plaintext Action.
When you close the window, the contents are always saved, and the window size/position is also saved.

The Object ID is shown in the top caption.
Plaintext windows have Hyperlink capability. (click on the green text).

Open: Richtext

This is a Richtext window, illustrating some Richtext features:

Richtext can be bold, italic, underlined or strike-out.

Richtext can have Colors, such as blue, red, green, gray, purple, brown, etc.

and also Highlights, such as Magenta.

The window background color is specified from the Options|Entity|Objects.

Richtext can have different fonts and sizes.

Richtext can be bulleted and indented:

Item one

Item two

Item three

Richtext can be Left/Center/Right/Justified aligned:

Left aligned

Center aligned

Right aligned

You can copy/paste tables from Word or other programs:

Ref No

Country

Month/Year

User Name

112

United Kingdom

03/2000

John Smith

135

Australia

03/2000

Michael Lee

       
       

You can enter Unicode characters by pasting them from Character Map or typing it using the numeric keypad. (See Character Map Help on how to type Unicode characters). Hence you can type mathematical equations like:

n

∑ aijxj + si - μip2 = 0

j=1

C* = {ψεY* : ψ(c) ≥ 0 ∀c∈ C}

However these Expressions cannot be used by Axon for Simulation or computation. Such Expressions must be written using Plaintext.

Richtext also has Hyperlink<14>37Hyperlink<15> capability.

More details about Richtext can be found in the Help.

No Action

Level: Goto

Open:Axonfile

Toggle Actions

Toggle: Fill

Toggle: 0/1

Toggle: Annotation

Toggle: Blink

Toggle: Underline

Toggle: Fill

A

B

Toggle: Droptext

Toggle: Collapse

Toggle: Level

See an example in Concept Tree.xon

Toggle: Translucent

C

Advanced Actions

Activate: Menu

ID:Select

Click on "Banana",
not "Select ID".

Activate: ID

Activate: ID

Banana

Activate: Cluster

Activate: Toolbar

ID:Spin Next

4. Four

Plaintext

This is some Plaintext.

Activate: Menu

Play File

Join: Richtext

ID:Spin Random

2. Two

Richtext

This is some Richtext.

The Beginning

Explode

Run Program

Open: File

Multiple Actions

Open: URL

Open:Text

Click on the above "The Beginning" to see a demo of the Open:Text* action (not the same as Open:Plaintext). The main difference is that the text comes from an Object (with same ID) in a specified file.

Level:Goto (Return)

See an example in
Goto(Return).xon

Hyperlink Actions...

Hyperlink Actions are Actions associated with Hyperlinks
(which are texts underlined and in green). For example:

Activate ID* simulates a click on the specified ID. This is a typical Hypertext Function for linking texts.

Cloze Action* enables creation of Cloze texts that contains hidden words such as and

No Action does nothing, and is used simply to underline the text.

Open: 2nd Axonfile* opens the specified file in another Axon window.

Idea: Checklists* opens the specified Checklist.

Open: File* opens any file using the program associated with the
file extension.

Open: URL* opens the specified URL, which could also be a HTML file on the local disk.

Play File* is for playing multi-media files or special sounds such as "Asterisk", "Critical Stop", "Exclamation", or "Question".

(To create/edit Hyperlinks, see Hyperlink).
(For an illustration, see Hypertext.xon).

Axon File: c:\w13\axon\exe\xon\object action.xon
Last modified: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:25:30 PM