efs alerts in 11.3?

[snovotny]

I'm trying without success to get alerts to fire in efs. First, I went to the "Trade" drop-down and set up email--a test works as it's supposed to. I also set a simple "price above" alert in the alert list, and it sounds (with "train.wav") and emails, as advertised.

But I can't make these things happen in efs:

I added these lines to some code that fires upon startup of a script:

Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( "did email go?" );

The debug line prints to the formula output, the indicator loads and displays as it should, but none of the alert functions occur.

What am I doing wrong?

[ACM]

Re: efs alerts in 11.3?

snovotny
Alerts are executed only at bar index 0 [ie the most recent/current bar]
Alex

Originally posted by snovotny
I'm trying without success to get alerts to fire in efs. First, I went to the "Trade" drop-down and set up email--a test works as it's supposed to. I also set a simple "price above" alert in the alert list, and it sounds (with "train.wav") and emails, as advertised.

But I can't make these things happen in efs:

I added these lines to some code that fires upon startup of a script:

Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( "did email go?" );

The debug line prints to the formula output, the indicator loads and displays as it should, but none of the alert functions occur.

What am I doing wrong?

[snovotny]

I entered this code further down:

if(getDay(0) == 25 && getDay(-1) == 23){
Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( getDay(0), " ", getDay(-1) );
}

I got a single '25 23' in the formula Output window, but nothing else.

[snovotny]

Ah! OK. I tried this and it worked:

if(getMinute(0) == 40 && getSecond(0) == 15){
Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( getDay(0), " ", getDay(-1) );
}

This was on a 15 second chart. When the new bar hit that time, everything worked as it should.

THANKS!

[snovotny]

but this is interesting...

When I put setComputeOnClose() in preMain, with:

if(getMinute(0) == 46 && getSecond(0) == 15){
Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( getDay(0), " ", getDay(-1) );

I got a single alert (instead of every new tick), but the alert occurred on bar with time: xx:46:30.

How is that? Actually, there IS no "bar index 0" on setComputeOnClose(), right?

[ACM]

Re: but this is interesting...

snovotny
That is because setComputeOnClose() forces the formula to wait until the bar at index 0 is completed and moved to bar index -1 [which occurs only at the open of a new bar that will now be at index 0] at which point the formula is executed one time only.
In your case the efs was not executed on the xx:46:15 bar while this was at index 0 but only when it was moved to index -1 which occurred when the new bar time stamped xx:46:30 [now at bar index 0] was created
Alex

Originally posted by snovotny
When I put setComputeOnClose() in preMain, with:

if(getMinute(0) == 46 && getSecond(0) == 15){
Alert.email( "email test" );
Alert.playSound( "train.wav" );
Alert.addToList( "IBM", "Breakout!", Color.green, Color.black );
debugPrintln( getDay(0), " ", getDay(-1) );

I got a single alert (instead of every new tick), but the alert occurred on bar with time: xx:46:30.

How is that? Actually, there IS no "bar index 0" on setComputeOnClose(), right?