Text View

A text label view supports displaying simple text on a screen.

General Information

Note

A text label view is defined with a percent (%) and the characters TL, followed by the view number. For example: %TL1

Note

See MCI for general information on how to use views and common configuration properties available for them.

Properties

Property	Description
text	Sets the text to display on the label. See MCI Formatting for information for advanced formatting.
textStyle	Sets the standard (non-focus) text style. See Text Styles in MCI
width	Sets the width of a view to display horizontally (default 15)
justify	Sets the justification of the text in the view. Options: left (default), right, center
fillChar	Specifies a character to fill extra space in the view with. Defaults to an empty space
textOverflow	Set overflow characters to display in case the text length is less than the width. See Text Overflow below

Text Overflow

The textOverflow option is used to specify what happens when a text string is too long to fit in the width defined.

Note

If textOverflow is not specified at all, a text label can become wider than the width if needed to display the text value.

Note

Setting textOverflow to an empty string textOverflow: "" will cause the item to be truncated if necessary without any characters displayed

Note

Otherwise, setting textOverflow to one or more characters will truncate the value if necessary and display those characters at the end. i.e. textOverflow: ...

Example

Configuration fragment (expand to view)

TL1: {
  text: Text label
}