Scripting Guide - SAS

450 Three-Dimensional Scenes Chapter 13
Drawing Text
Text( horz, vert, size, string, )
• horz can be Left, Center, or Right justification.
• vert can be Top, Middle, Baseline, or Bottom justification.
• size represents the height of a capital letter M in model coordinates.
• string is the text to draw.
• billboard is an optional argument that causes the text to rotate with the model. Text with this option
always faces the viewer.
The font is always the JMP Text font. You can change the text font from the preferences menu, but because
of the way JMP caches fonts for scenes, changes might not take effect until JMP is restarted.
Note: Text is not part of the standard OpenGL definition.
Using Text with Rotate and Translate
The following example uses the text command in conjunction with the Translate and Rotate
commands.
/* make a scene box...holds an OpenGL scene */
scene = SceneBox( 600, 600 );
/* put the scene in a window */
NewWindow( "Example 2", scene );
scene