Playback question

[Chris747]

Howdy,
When i'm playing back a downloaded tic file .... if there any way to determine what the symbol is for that file during playback ? Basically i've written a general script for 6 currency pairs and i would like to set a cpl of parameters based on the pair being played back ... is there a method for my script to determine which currency is being played back ?

thx ...

[Doji3333]

you could try putting this in the code to see what the internal "getSymbol()" function returns.

debugPrintln("Playback symbol :"+getSymbol());

If that provides anything of use, then you could parse/set your variables as needed at the first bar of the playback.

//  global variables
var vInitCodeSetting = true;
var SampleControlVariable = 0;


//  Premain function
function preMain() {

}

// main function
function main() {

   if (vInitCodeSetting) {
     fSetupCodeVariables();
     vInitCodeSetting = false;
   }

}

function fSetupCodeVariables() {
  if (getSymbol() == "ABCD") {
      SampleControlVariable = 1;
    ..  Set variables here
  }
  if (getSymbol() == "IBM") {
      SampleControlVariable = 2;
    ..  Set variables here
  }
  if (getSymbol() == "XYZ") {
      SampleControlVariable = 3;
    ..  Set variables here
  }



} 

[Chris747]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly...

but your solution will always return "$PLAYBACK" as the symbol for any currency being played back. I was thinking there might be a way to read the name of the tic file or something like that but have not been able to find a solution as yet.

Chris

[Doji3333]

to be honest, I don't use the tick playback feature much. I was just offering some suggestions.