Label
Static or state-driven text, with optional border and underline.
A label puts text on a screen. That text can be fixed, can interpolate live tag values, or can change entirely with machine state.
It is display-only — it never writes, and it cannot be pressed — so it is the control to reach for when a screen needs to say something rather than do something.
Adding the control
Section titled “Adding the control”- Open the document and select the screen you want from the screen tabs.
- In the control palette, press Label and drag it onto the canvas.
- Type the text. To show a live value, insert a tag with the Tag button,
which writes
{tag_name}at the cursor.
Being display-only, a label is not held to the 96 × 48 px floor that controls an operator aims at must respect. A one-line status label can be as small as the grid allows.
Properties
Section titled “Properties”| Property | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Text | The text shown. {tag_name} interpolates a live value. |
Label |
| Color | Text color. | base content |
| Size | Text size in pixels. | 18 |
| Bold | Semibold text. | off |
| Underline | Underline the text. | off |
| Align | Horizontal alignment. | center |
| Wrap | Let long text run onto more than one line. | off |
| States | Conditions that replace the text and color. | none |
| Border | Color, width, corner radius and padding of a box around the label. | off |
Showing a live value
Section titled “Showing a live value”A tag name in braces is replaced by that tag’s current value. The Tag button beside the field inserts one at the cursor — worth using on the pendant, where braces are two pages deep on the keyboard.
What you type.
What the operator sees.
States
Section titled “States”Like an Indicator, a label can carry states: each has a condition, its own text and its own color, and the first true one wins. Where an indicator shows a fixed vocabulary of states, a label is the better choice when the text itself is the information.
A state with an empty condition always matches, so putting one last makes it a fallback.
Border and padding
Section titled “Border and padding”A border draws a box around the label — color, width, corner radius — with padding between the text and that box. Padding applies to the sides of a single-line label: before left-aligned text, after right-aligned, symmetric when centered. When the label wraps, it applies to all four sides.
A Rectangle behind a label can also draw a box, but a border keeps its spacing exact and moves with the label.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Tags — the values a label interpolates.
- Expressions — the syntax used by state conditions.
- Indicator — for a state shown as a colored panel.