PLACE INCREMENTING TEXT

This application is designed to place incrementing text. It uses the active text/level/attributes settings for the text placement, please set active settings prior to running this application.
It is a universal tool that allows for fixed prefix and or suffix to be included to allow for a texts such as GF.E.22, or GF.22.E, where 22 is the incrementing part of the text.
It also increments alpha characters like A to B to C etc. or ZY to ZZ to AAA to AAB etc. and will also increment alpha characters from either the left or right end of the set.
It also has the function to check for duplicate values to avoid having two text elements the same in the active file.

This Help file, JDECS_Place_Inc_Text.htm, and JDECS_Place_Increment_Text.mvba need to be in the same folder.

To start the application, key-in,
vba load JDECS_Place_Increment_Text.mvba;vba run PlaceIncrementText

Process Basics and Instructions for Use

  • Set the Prefix and Suffix characters, (blank will eliminate that part).
  • Set the starting value for the incrementing value, (letters will increment to the next letter up to z or Z then reset to a or A and add another character to the string, and each increment past z or Z will increment the character to the left or right and so on.
  • Values can be reset at any time.
  • Set the option to Check for Duplicates, if ticked, the value being placed will be checked to see if it already exists in the active file and will give you a warning if another text element with the same value is found.
  • When using a mix of upper and lower case, and another character is added there is no way to predict the case required and you may have to set it manually if the result is not as expected.

    • Prefix is characters preceding the Incrementing text
    Increment is the text to be Incremented
    Suffix is characters beyond the Incrementing text
    Example (Prefix 'abc') (Increment '9') (Suffix '-20') will produce 'abc9-20 to abc10-20 to abc11-20 etc.'

    When an Alpha character is inserted in the Increment box, the Alpha options will become visible.
    Left or Right options for Alpha characters only, will Increment characters from Left or Right end of the incrementing string.