Text Notificaction Via Time

[*v*]

Hello,

Looking for some help on creating an efs study that displays user defined text messages on the chart at 14 different user defined times throughout the day on top of the current candle.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Or if there is something similar (haven't found it so far), I'll try an edit it accordingly.

Thank you for your time.
SB

[Doji3333]

I would use two arrays for this...

var vTimeArray = new Array(1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600);
var vText4Time = new Array("Text 1",
"Text 2",
"Text 3",
"Text 4",
"Text 5",
"Text 6",
"Text 7");

This sets up your times and your text values to be displayed. Then I would use a simple lookup routine to determine which text needs to be drawn on the chart (again, this is time based so we need to setup some additional date/time variables to simplify this).

//  Global Variables

var vTimeArray = new Array(1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600);
var vText4Time = new Array("Text 1",
"Text 2",
"Text 3",
"Text 4",
"Text 5",
"Text 6",
"Text 7");

var vTimeArrayPtr = -1;

var vRTHour;
var vRTMin;
var vRTSec;
var vHour;
var vMin;
var vSec;
var vDay;
var vMonth; 
var vDOW;
var nTime = 0;
var vRTTimeMin = 0;
var nRTTimeMin = 0;


function main() {

//---------------------------------------------------
//  Get RT Time Variables 
   var vTime = new Date();
  vRTHour = vTime.getHours();
  vRTMin = vTime.getMinutes();
  vRTSec = vTime.getSeconds();
//---------------------------------------------------
//  Get Bar Time Variables 
  vTime = getValue("Time", 0);
  vHour = vTime.getHours();
  vMin = vTime.getMinutes();
  vSec = vTime.getSeconds();
  vDay = vTime.getDate();
  vMonth = vTime.getMonth() +1; 
  vDOW = vTime.getDay();
  var vYear = vTime.getYear();
  var nTimeMin = (vHour*60)+vMin;
  nTime = (vHour*100)+vMin;
  vRTTimeMin = (vRTHour*60)+vRTMin;
  nRTTimeMin = (vRTHour*100)+vRTMin;


  if (fCheck4TimeText(nRTTimeMin)) {
    drawTextRelative(0,high(), vText4Time[vTimeArrayPtr], Color.blue, null, Text.ONTOP | Text.CENTER | Text.FRAME, null, 9, "output1"); 
  }


} //  end of main


function fCheck4TimeText(vnRT_TimeMin) {
  var x = (vTimeArray.length-1);
  var vTimeFoundInArray = false;

   //  This is a reverse look routine for an array.  We start looking at the LAST value in the array, then step backward to the first.
  while ( (x >= 0) && (vTimeFoundInArray ) ) {
     if (vnRT_TimeMin >= vTimeArray[x]) {
       //  this tests to see if the vnRT_TimeMin value is greater than the time stored in our array.
        vTimeArrayPtr = x;
        vTimeFoundInArray = true;
     }  // end if
    x--;
  } // end while
  return vTimeFoundInArray;
}  // end function 

[*v*]

Doji3333,

Thank you for your knowledge and reply!

Looks like I'll have to do some searching for to figure out those time variables and lookup routine to get this rolling along.

Thanks again,
Steve

[Doji3333]

Steve,

I gave you a complete example. Just spend some time looking and reviewing my example and you should be fine. Let me know if you have any questions.