## Module: CaptionFromPort (
)

### Description:

> This is an experimental module from the Xtra Library: https://xtras.amira-avizo.com.

> This module can be used to fill the text field of a Caption module with the value of a port of another module.

> You can use it, for instance, for dynamically displaying the slice-number of an OrthoSlice in the viewer window, for displaying the normal vector components of a Slice, for showing the rotation angle of a Camera Orbit (in an animation), or, when processing time-series, to show the time-step being processed.

### Connections:

> Caption module `[required]`
> Select the Caption module, whose text field you want to connect to the value of a port from another module.

> Module to get ports from `[optional]`
> Choose the module with the port you want to use.

### Ports:

> Port
> Select the port, whose value you want to use in the Caption.