Calcuate on first bar that meets criteria

[PATRADER]

hi -
I have a script that works well in drawing a 9:30 line at 50% of open/close and one for the open of 10:00 bar.

I then wrote a quick script (not written very well and some things dont apply in it but works) that will calculate the highest of the bars from 9:36 to 9:54 (did Math.max...etc) and then draw a line then if any bar breaks this line to alert me but....

I was looking to do this:

once a bar breaks this line, alert me (which I can do and works)...now what I wanted to do was to find a way as to once it finds this FIRST bar to stop. I only want the first bar to alert me, now it alerts on me on the rest of the ones that are formed throughout the day. I would think this would be very simple but I cant figure out the code...

One thing I have to figure out next is:
if any one bar (say 12:00 bar) is below the first bar (9:30 bar)of the days low -.05 cents (the 9:30 bar at this moment) then do not give me any alerts at all even if the another bar later on (say 1:00 bar) breaks the 9:36 to 9:54 line.

I still cant paste here the code??? agghhh

I'll have to upload....I tried to paste the code but it wouldnt let me still

[ACM]

PATRADER

...now what I wanted to do was to find a way as to once it finds this FIRST bar to stop. I only want the first bar to alert me, now it alerts on me on the rest of the ones that are formed throughout the day

To accomplish this you would need to use a flag which changes state the first time the event occurs and that gets reset only once at the beginning of every day. Create a global variable called for example AlertTriggered and set it initally to false

var AlertTriggered = false; 

Then at the beginning of the main function you create the condition that will reset that variable when a new day starts

if(getDay(0)!=getDay(-1)){
    AlertTriggered = false;
} 

At this point add a check for AlertTriggered in your existing condition and when the condition is true you execute your alerts and set AlertTriggered to true

if(AlertTriggered==false && your_condition==true){
    //execute your alerts
    AlertTriggered = true;
} 

Once the AlertTriggered flag is set to true that will prevent further alerts for the rest of the day since your condition no longer evaluates to true. As a new day starts over the flag is reset thereby allowing for an alert to be triggered when necessary
Alex

[PATRADER]

thanks

thank you , it worked nicely....only one alert once it is broken!!

I already had an AlertTriggered = false from an older program that I ripped this one from. I removed that first. Then added your example.

It had an alarm for the a condition:
If (getbarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR)
AlertTriggered = false.

Now if I was to merge these two scripts then I take it would not be possible because I use the AlertTriggered = false statement for both scripts??

[ACM]

PATRADER
Just rename one of the variables and rearrange the conditions as necessary
Alex