Edit Studies question

[Doji3333]

I'm trying something new and it does not appear to be working properly.

I've defined a series of inputs as STRINGS and these strings are actually a CSV number series - like "234,434,555,232"

When first loaded on the chart (no change to the input values), it works just fine. As soon as I click on Edit Studies, change anything and click OK, it stops working all together. It never generates any debug info like on startup of the efs - nothing.

Don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or if it's something internal (using numbers as strings).

Anyone ever try this?

[Doji3333]

BTW, I figured out that Edit Studies interprets a STRING as a NUMBER if the string IS a number.

For example, if I designate an input as

    aFPArray[x] = new FunctionParameter( "TriggerID", FunctionParameter.STRING);    
    with( aFPArray[x] ) {
      setDefault("1234,5678"); //Edit this value to set a new default
    } 

When I load the efs, this value is interpreted as a STRING ("1234,5678")

When I go into EDIT STUDIES and change ANY SETTING, then click OK, this STRING now becomes a NUMBER.

"1234,5678" turns into 12345678.0

So, the only solution I can come up with is to add a TEXT DESIGNATOR to the beginning of the values to FORCE it to be a string. Like "A,1234,5678".

I'll strip out the "A" of course (in the workings of the code) because it is only needed to trick EDIT STUDIES into thinking this is still a STRING

Anyway, for anyone interested, this is a great way to handle "multiple array inputs" within EDIT STUDIES. The only problem is you need to trick it with an ALPHA DESIGNATOR at the beginning of the input series.