mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox class

Package: mlreportgen.ppt

Text box

Description

Text box to include in a presentation.

The mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

textBoxObj = TextBox() creates an empty text box object.

Properties

Bold — Option to use bold for text

logical value

Option to use bold for text, specified as true or false. To make text bold, set this property to true

FontColor — Font color for presentation element

character vector

Font color, specified as a character vector. Use either a CSS color name or a hexadecimal RGB value.

• For a list of CSS color names, see https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords.

• To specify a hexadecimal RGB format, use # as the first character and two-digit hexadecimal numbers for each for the red, green, and blue values. For example, '#0000ff' specifies blue.

Italic — Option to use italics for text

[] (default) | logical value

Option to use italics for text, specified as a logical. Set this property to true. Setting the Italic property adds a corresponding mlreportgen.ppt.Italic format object to the Style property of this presentation element. Removing the Italic property setting removes the object.

Data Types: logical

Underline — Type of underline for text

[] (default) | character vector

Type of underlining for text, specified as a character vector. Setting the Underline property adds a corresponding mlreportgen.ppt.Underline format object to the Style property for this element. Removing the Underline property setting removes the object. You can specify one of these types of underlines.

Value	Description
'single'	Single underline
'double'	Double underline
'heavy'	Thick underline
'words'	Words only underlined (not spaces)
'dotted'	Dotted underline
'dottedheavy'	Thick, dotted underline
'dash'	Dashed underline
'dashheavy'	Thick, dashed underline
'dashlong'	Long, dashed underline
'dashlongheavy'	Thick, long, dashed underline
'dotdash'	Dot dash underline
'dotdotdash'	Dot dot dash underline
'dotdotdashheavy'	Thick dot dot dash underline
'dotdashdotheavy'	Thick dash dot underline
'wavy'	Wavy underline
'wavyheavy'	Thick wavy underline
'wavydouble'	Two wavy underlines

Name — Text box name

character vector

Text box name, specified as a character vector.

X — Upper-left x-coordinate position of text box

character vector

Upper-left x-coordinate of text box, specified in the form valueUnits where Units is an abbreviation for the units. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Y — Upper-left y-coordinate position of text box

character vector

Upper-left y-coordinate position of text box, specified in the form valueUnits where Units is an abbreviation for the units. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Width — Width of text box

character vector

Width of text box, specified in the form valueUnits where Units is an abbreviation for the units. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Height — Height of text box

character vector

Height of text box, specified in the form valueUnits where Units is an abbreviation for the units. Valid abbreviations are:

• px — pixels (default)

• cm — centimeters

• in — inches

• mm — millimeters

• pc — picas

• pt — points

Style — Text formatting

cell array of PPT format objects

Text formatting, specified as a cell array of PPT format objects. You can specify these mlreportgen.ppt format objects:

• BackgroundColor object

• FontFamily object

• FontSize object

• Bold object

• FontColor object

• Italic object

• Underline object

Children — Children of this PPT API object

cell array of PPT objects

Child elements of this object, specified as a cell array of PPT objects. This property is read-only.

Parent — Parent of this PPT API object

PPT object

Parent of this object, specified as a PPT object. This property is read-only.

Tag — Tag for this PPT API object

character vector | string scalar

Tag for this PPT API object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. A session-unique tag is generated as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object.

Specifying your own tag value can help you to identify where an issue occurred during presentation generation.

Id — ID for this PPT API object

character vector | string scalar

ID for this PPT API object, specified as a character vector or string scalar. A session-unique ID is generated as part of object creation. You can specify an ID to replace the generated ID.

Methods

Public Methods

Method	Purpose
add	Add paragraph to text box
replace	Replace text box paragraphs
clone	objCopy = clone(obj) returns a copy of the mlreportgen.ppt.TextBox object specified by obj. Use the clone method of a TextBox object the same way that you use the clone method of a Paragraph object.

Examples

Add a Text Box

Create a presentation with two slides.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*
ppt = Presentation('myTextBoxPresentation.pptx');

Add a blank slide.

blank = add(ppt,'Blank');

Create a text box and define its location and size.

tb = TextBox();
tb.X = '1in';
tb.Y = '1in';
tb.Width = '8in';
tb.Height = '0.5in';

Add text to the text box and append the text box to the blank slide.

add(tb,'This is the title of my blank slide');
add(blank,tb);

Close and view the presentation.

close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

Here is the generated presentation:

Version History

Introduced in R2014b