Styles

The Styles tab is used to specify a text symbol by choosing from a list of predefined text symbols, or styles.

The styles are installed with ArcPad or can be exported from ArcGIS Desktop by using the Export Styles tool included with the ArcPad Data Manager for ArcGIS Desktop. The default text styles included with ArcPad are the ESRI Default and Callout styles.

The initial view for the Styles tab displays the text symbols using a list view. Tapping the Symbol column heading changes the text symbol display to a grid view, which is the view used by ArcGIS Desktop.

Text symbol scale

Type the scale to be used for showing the selected text symbol in to the text symbol preview field.

The text symbol scale does not set the text symbol reference scale but only provides a preview of how the text symbol is drawn at different scales. This is useful when specifying the text symbol reference scale on the Scale tab of the Label Properties dialog box.

The default is 100%.

Style

Choose the style to be displayed. The list of styles is determined from the styles located in the Styles folder within the ArcPad installation folder.

The default is *, or all the available text styles.

Text symbol Preview

Displays the current text symbol definition, using the specified text symbol scale. The current text symbol definition does not necessarily need to match a text symbol in the current selected style(s). The text symbol preview field is automatically updated when a text symbol is selected from the current style(s).

This is a display-only field.

Symbol

Displays the text symbol as stored in the style file. Tapping the text symbol selects the text symbol definition, which is saved with the layer’s label definition when is tapped.

Tapping the Symbol column heading changes the Styles tab to display the text symbols using a grid view, which is the view used by ArcGIS Desktop.

This is a display-only field.

Label

Displays the text symbol label as stored in the style file. Tapping the label selects the text symbol definition, which is saved with the layer’s label definition when is tapped. When a text symbol is selected, the symbol label is not transferred or saved with the layer’s label definition.

Initially, the text symbols are displayed in the same order as in the ArcGIS Desktop styles. Tapping the Label column heading sorts the text symbols based on the symbol label. Tapping the Label column heading again sorts the text symbols in reverse order.

This is a display-only field.