# Possibilities of text on screen / popups

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Tags:** popups\
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607 "2018-02-08T18:05:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![niclas.akesson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@niclas.akesson](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/niclas.akesson)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607/1 "2018-02-08T18:05:37Z")

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I know how to send text to the log from RTDE, but I would like to create a popup screen that shows messages in much bigger text than the log.

Right now I work with the RTDE-interface and would like to stay there as long as possible, so are there any possibilities?

Another way would be to write text to a file from my rtde-loop. Then create a “normal Tkinter gui loop” that reads text from this file and show it on the display. Is this possible?

Would I mess up polyscope?

Both this loops I’m planning to start with Crontab and “@reboot…” if it works.

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**Author:** ![niclas.akesson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@niclas.akesson](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/niclas.akesson)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607/2 "2018-02-12T17:53:41Z")

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Never mind, I figured it out myself by using the dashboard server (it also worked with the primary client interface)…  
The only thing I can’t do is to add a picture to the popup. Is this possible?  
I will still give it a try later on in my development with trying to encode an image file with base64 (or 32)

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**Author:** ![jbm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/jbm/32/614_2.png) [@jbm](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/jbm)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607/3 "2018-02-13T07:38:39Z")

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The various popup options using respectively Dashboard or URScript (i.e. via client interfaces) does only support text-based popup.

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**Author:** ![Savoia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/savoia/32/4844_2.png) [@Savoia](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/Savoia)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/possibilities-of-text-on-screen-popups/1607/4 "2021-01-26T20:05:27Z")

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