Interesting sitiuation

[dloomis]

I usually have a routine I only run one time ti initialize variables.

Recently, I added some drawTextAbsolute stmts to this routine and could not get the text to draw.

if(start1==0){

drawTextAbsolute( -26, pt2*100, "+"+(pt2*100).toFixed(0), Color.red, null, v|bb, "Comic Sans MS", 14, -55 );
drawTextAbsolute( -26, pt8*100, (pt8*100).toFixed(0), Color.green, null, v|bb, "Comic Sans MS", 14, -66 );

start1 = 1;

}

if I changed the IF stmt to

if(start1==0&&getCurrentBarIndex()==0){

the text would draw.

[ckryza]

David:

It's hard to say for sure by only looking at a code snippet but my guess is that this code will kick in when the very first bar is processed by the script (I use a similar initialization routine). If the pt2 variable (e.g., the Y coordinate in the drawLine call) is null at that point, then drawLineAbsolute will draw the assigned text at a price value of 0. Try it and then scroll down to a price of 0 and I think you might see it there.

Chris