AddTextBox

Adds a Text Box to the currently selected graph. A text box is an item of text enclosed by a border.

AddTextBox [/font <font-name>] [/colour <colour-name>] <text> [ <x-position> [<y-position>]]

Parameters

/colour

Name of colour to be used for text. Name of option setting that will store the colour of the object in the form #rrggbb. Default is GraphColourTextBoxText

/font

Name of font to be used for text. This must either be a built in font or one created using CreateFont. Default is "Graph Text Box"

text

Text to be displayed in the box. This may use symbolic value enclosed by '%'. The following are meaningful for Text Box objects:

%Date%	The date when the object was created
%Time%	The time when the object was created
%Version%	The name and current version of the program

See Symbolic Values for more information on symbolic values.

x-position

The x position of the box in view units (See Graph Coordinate Systems )

y-position

The y position of the box in view units (See Graph Coordinate Systems )

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