FlexiTable™ Settings

Introduction

The FlexiTable™ settings file provides a flexible way of defining table presentation. By presentation we mean …

• the symbology used to construct the table using MicroStation graphics elements
• the appearance of each cell in the table
• the font and symbology used to represent text and numbers
• the formatting used to display integer and floating-point numbers

Settings Editor

The Settings Editor dialog lets you modify FlexiTable's settings. When you save settings it updates the settings file, which is a plain text file in XML format.

The Settings Editor dialog provides multiple tabbed categories that let you modify various settings. You can have multiple settings files for different purposes. When FlexiTable™ first starts, it looks for the settings file defined by configuration variable FLEXITABLE_SETTINGS, or if that is not defined the default settings.xml in the folder defined by MS_SETTINGSDIR.

Settings Categories

The settings dialog has the following categories whose settings are available on individual tabs …

Table Structure

A table is divided into three primary parts: the header, content and footer.

The table content is further divided into multiple rows of data. Each row has an equal number of columns. A cell has the same meaning for FlexiTable™ as a spreadsheet cell: the data at the intersection of a given row and column.

Symbology and Content

The settings file defines line styles, text styles and content for several parts of the table …