View source for API Console.AddText

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| width="10%" align="center" style="background-color:#D8C9D8;" align="center" | [[File:Fc9-comp-macro.png]]
| width="90%" style="background-color:#D8C9D8; color:#4B008D;" | '''AddText'''
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| colspan="2" | Adds a window to the list of consoles available&nbsp;
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| width="10%" align="center" | [[File:Fc9-string-icon.png]] - STRING
| width="90%" | Name
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| colspan="2" | The name to appear as the consoles title&nbsp;
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| width="10%" align="center" | [[File:Fc9-bool-icon.png]] - BOOL
| width="90%" | UserWrite
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| colspan="2" | Set true to allow input from the User&nbsp;
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| width="10%" align="center" style="border-top: 2px solid #000;" | [[File:Fc9-h32-icon.png]] - HANDLE
| width="90%" style="border-top: 2px solid #000;" | ''Return''
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==Detailed description==
A text console is a stream of text suitable for use as a terminal to display, for example RS232 data or a remote connection. When text is added, this is always appended to the end of the stream so the text contents will get larger. This differs from the [[API Console.AddMemory|AddMemory]] call which has a fixed size and operates in 'overwrite' mode to change the text.


Once a handle is created it must be retained, as Flowcode will remove any handles from the system that are not referenced.


The style and content of the console can be changed at any time. The only thing that is fixed is the ''type'' of console - a text console always has a variable size and a variable number of characters per line.



==Examples==
===Calling in a calculation===
* Declare a variable 'result' of type HANDLE
* Add to a calculation icon: <pre class="brush:[cpp]">result = ::Console.AddText("name", true)</pre>

===Flowchart example===
The example {{Fcfile|SIMAPI Console.fcfx|SIMAPI Console}} illustrates basic creation of a console window.