Annotation

Annotations allow users to place their own text within specific data values in the color legend. Mapped Value Annotations minimum and maximum data are added automatically. To add any other custom annotations, you can use the editor color card.

Since the annotation list is an extended property, you need or toggle the visibility of additional properties using the at the top part of the panel, or enter annotations in the search field. This will show the widget Annotations, which is essentially a list widget where users can enter key-value pairs rather than value-annotation pairs, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9. Widget for adding/editing annotations to the Color Editorpanel

You can use the buttons on the right side of the widget to add/remove records. Enter a data value for the annotation in the Value column, and then enter the text that will be displayed at this value in the column "Annotation".

You can use the (tab) key for editing the next entry. Clicking after editing the last entry in the table will automatically result in a new row being added, which will make it easier to add a group of annotations without having to click any buttons.

Some annotation text may not appear in the legend. Annotations may not appear for two reasons. First, the number of characters the text being added is outside the function's display range color transfer. Secondly, in the Color Legend Options dialog box The "Display Annotations" checkbox is not selected.

Buttons and can use to fill an annotation widget with unique discrete values from the data array, if possible. Depending on quantity different values present in the data array, this may not give no result (a warning message will be shown instead). Data array values come either from the selected source object, if you use the , or from visible source objects, if you use the .