drawTextAbsolute major change?

[jpbecker]

Hello everyone!

I wrote an EFS Study for a client that plots horizontal lines at certain price levels. On the last plotted bar, just below the lines, I had labels to identify each line.

Since upgrading to 7.9.1, the text labels have changed. The font is tiny and the text appears to have an invisible background, that now overwrites the horizontal lines. I have attached screenshots.

Curious if this was an intentional change and if so, how can we get things how they were. And if it is an accidental change, when would this be fixed?

Does anybody have a fix to get things how they were?

Thanks.

Jay

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Jay,

Please post your code you're using to draw the text labels and I'll look into it.

[jpbecker]

This is the new code I'm using, with the text being bolded and 12pt.....

drawTextAbsolute(0,vLastArray[1],"Dir",Color.yellow,null,Text.RIGHT|Text.BOLD,null ,12,"65");


This is the original code, that didn't have (or need) font style or size defined.....

drawTextAbsolute(0,vLastArray[1],"Dir",Color.yellow,null,Text.RIGHT,Text.Fixedsys, null,"65");

I tried the Text.ONTOP and that didn't help.

Thanks for any advice!


Jay

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Jay,

There were some minor changes to the text functions. I couldn't come up with a work-around to get rid of the slight overlap you're seeing. With 7.9.1, you will need to specify a font and size to match the previous versions. Is the new code you are using adequate for your needs?

[jpbecker]

Thanks for your response.

Yes, I tried putting in font type, style and size and was able to recreate how the plots looked before. But we still have the overlap that we can't seem to workaround.

So, with this invisible box that goes around text.....is there anyway that this can be fixed? What was the purpose of this change?

Thanks.


Jay

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Jay,

There were some changes made to adjust the spacing between the AboveBar/BelowBar location constants. This may have had some affect on the spacing of the other text objects that's causing that overlap. I'm not certain this is the problem, but I will bring this up with the development team to look into.