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Drawing Area

The Drawing Area block provides a control to display an area in the command's dialog box that can be used to show JPG, BMP, TIFF, and PNG images (i.e., a general-purpose graphics/picture display surface).

Inherited general properties

  • BlockID
  • Enable
  • Group
  • Label
  • Show
  • Expanded

Block-specific properties

Property Name Description Access Property Type List of Values
Height Specifies the initial height of the drawing area. CIG Integer Any integer value >= 0.
Image Specifies the filename of the initial graphics or picture to be shown. CSG File Path and filename of the image.
Width Specifies the initial width of the drawing area. CIG Integer Any integer value >= 0.

Access column legend

Character Stands for Meaning
C Creation Modifiable interactively in Block UI Styler at design time.
I Initialize Modifiable at run time via NXOpen API, but only during the Initialize callback.
G Get Readable via NXOpen API in any callback.
S Set Modifiable at run time via NXOpen API in any callback.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/209349590/PL20220512394070742.blockstyler/drawing_area · retrieved 2026-07-07