Writing to LCD Panels on the programmable block?

It says in the update that you can write onto the LCD's on the program block and other stuff, but I can't figure out how. Does anyone know?

 

https://forum.keenswh.com/threads/api-or-example-script-for-the-new-lcd.7402966/

 

Simple Example:

Code:

			IMyTextSurface mesurface0 = Me.GetSurface(0);
			mesurface0.ContentType = ContentType.TEXT_AND_IMAGE;
			mesurface0.FontSize = 2;
			mesurface0.Alignment = VRage.Game.GUI.TextPanel.TextAlignment.CENTER;
			mesurface0.WriteText("Hello World");

 

Uhm... I confess my stupidity and humbly ask: How do you get the surface of an LCD Panel?

 

LCD Panel is also a text surface.

Code:

IMyTextPanel textPanel = GetMyLcdPanel(...);
...
IMyTextSurface surface = (IMyTextSurface)textPanel;

 

Oh, you can cast the panel itself to a surface. Right. Thank you!

Edit: And I assume there's no longer any division between private and public texts on the LCD Panel? All those methods were marked as "deprecated" and IMyTextSurface didn't have them so whatever you put there with IMyTextSurface.WriteText should be visible to everyone?

 

The TextAlignment seems great when wanting to place text in the middle of a line