Leica Biosystems LPC Software installation - Manual (Page 165)

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LabeLase ® Producer - Installation
field and/or layout. It would be nice if the cassette printer had the capability
to take a long text field and break it up over several lines, performing word
wrap as required to ensure that words are not split between lines. The cas-
sette printer itself is not capable of this, but fortunately XLTags is.
The first field of a record can contain more characters than can fit on any
one line of the cassette layout. XLTags will automatically split the line into
multiple lines, performing word wrap as needed, and print the cassette. All
fields after the first are sent as-is and must fit within the available real es-
tate limitations.
When designing your cassette layout, you must create operator-entered
text fields as the first "X" fields in the layout. The number of fields to reserve
depends upon the maximum number of characters in the longest first field of
the file. For example, if the longest first field in the text file is 75 characters
and the cassette layout will only accommodate at most 25 characters per
line, then you must reserve the first three operator entered fields of the lay-
out to hold the data. Each additional field in the file will occupy fields 4, 5, 6
etc.
It may take some experimentation to determine the optimum cassette layout
for your data. Just be sure to use the longest first field in the data when de-
termining the layout.
Operation
The top of the display is the program's main menu as well as a toolbar of
most frequently used commands. Just below the toolbar is an area that
shows the contents of the currently loaded file. Just below the file area is an
indicator that shows the current record being processed. Note that the area
showing the file information is editable so you can make changes to the
data and then save these changes if desired. In fact, you could create the
entire data file right in this editor and save it to disk.
Below the file information is an area that shows each item's data as it is
being processed. To the right of this is a display of the status of the job.
3. User Interface