drawLineRelative

[turbotrade]

I am coming up short in using the drawLineRelative parameters in my code. Any help would be appreciated. I believe I am confused with the nBarCounter as I would like to be able to have the lines stay on the chart permanently each time the condition is met, but currently, they only show on a most recent event and then drop off the next time it occurs. Here is what I have so far:

if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) {


nBarCounter = 0;

if //my conditions
{
drawLineRelative(0, low(0)-.5,8,low(0)
-.5,PS_SOLID,2,Color.red,"Entry"+nBarCounter);
}


Thank you.

[ACM]

Re: drawLineRelative

turbotrade
This is not apparent from the snippet of code you posted anyhow nBarCounter needs to be a global variable [ie declared outside of the main function]
Then inside the getBarState() conditional statement you need to increment nBarCounter by 1 at each iteration whereas you are resetting it to 0 eg
if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) {
nBarCounter ++;
alternatively you can also write the latter as
nBarCounter +=1;
This way nBarCounter will have a different value on each bar
Alex

Originally posted by turbotrade
I am coming up short in using the drawLineRelative parameters in my code. Any help would be appreciated. I believe I am confused with the nBarCounter as I would like to be able to have the lines stay on the chart permanently each time the condition is met, but currently, they only show on a most recent event and then drop off the next time it occurs. Here is what I have so far:

if(getBarState() == BARSTATE_NEWBAR) {


nBarCounter = 0;

if //my conditions
{
drawLineRelative(0, low(0)-.5,8,low(0)
-.5,PS_SOLID,2,Color.red,"Entry"+nBarCounter);
}


Thank you.

[turbotrade]

Hi Alex,
That worked perfectly...thank you again. I apologize for not posting my entire code - still can't get anything with my vB code to post.

As you suggested, I set up the global variable outside of preMain and Main as:
var nBarCounter = 0;

and used nBarCounter ++;


Jody

[ACM]

Jody
You are most welcome
Alex

Originally posted by turbotrade
Hi Alex,
That worked perfectly...thank you again. I apologize for not posting my entire code - still can't get anything with my vB code to post.

As you suggested, I set up the global variable outside of preMain and Main as:
var nBarCounter = 0;

and used nBarCounter ++;


Jody