NewTek LiveText - Manual (Page 49)

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7. Click the Select (Arrow) button in LiveText’s tool panel. The “temperature” key is
immediately replaced by “98°”, the value currently assigned to that key in the text file.
8. Press Alt + Tab on your keyboard to switch back to the text editor. (If necessary, move
it a bit to one side on the screen so you can see”2.0“on the LiveText canvas.)
9. Change the value assigned to “temperature” in the text file to “75°”, then pull down the
File menu (in the text editor) and select Save.
As soon as you save the change to the text file, LiveText refreshes its display as well.
10. On a new line (below the “temperature = 75°” line in the text file), type:
business = NewTek
11. Re-save the text file.
12. Now, click the Text [T] tool in LiveText. Right-click on the canvas, and notice that a new
item appears in the drop-down menu options – “business”.
Let’s try something slightly different.
13. Press Alt + Tab to bring the text editor forward again, and delete all of the text in the file
(don’t save the file, though).
14. Enter a new line of text as follows (enter your personal name for your name):
My Name = your name
15. Select Save As from the File menu, and save the file using the file name Names.txt, then
right-click on the canvas again – notice that “My Name” appears in the menu option list,
even though it’s in a different text file. TXT Linker watches for changes in all suitable
files located in the observed folder.
Experiment with TXT Linker a bit more:
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Try applying a Style to DataLink key objects.
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Click the Layers tab, and double-click on a DataLink object name. Notice that this allows
you to type in a custom name for the object. Press Enter on the keyboard to complete