Drawing Lines in Advanced Charts Help Required

[nkhoi]

re: horizontal line

just what I need, thank

[Doji3333]

Support from a friend..

Jason,

I use a different structure for graphics control...

As I may want to record a bar (in the past) that I may use over and over as a start point for my line drawing routines, I build a bar counter to control everything...

var nLastRawTime = 0;
var BarCount = 0;

function main() {

  if (nLastRawTime != getValue("rawtime", 0)) {
     BarCount += 1;
     nLastRawTime = getValue("rawtime", 0);
  }
} 

Now, with this information, all I have to do is record the "barcount" value for the bar where I want to start my lines, then run a simple calculation in my line drawing routines to adjust the line start as new bars arrive..

var nLastRawTime = 0;
var BarCount = 0;
var LineStart = null;
var LineLevel = 0;

function main() {

  if (nLastRawTime != getValue("rawtime", 0)) {
     BarCount += 1;
     nLastRawTime = getValue("rawtime", 0);
  }


  if (high() > high(-1)) {  //  just a sample for a condition of a line start
    LineStart = BarCount;
    LineLevel = high();
  }

  if (LineStart != null) {
   drawLineRelative( (LineStart-BarCount), LineLEvel , 0, LineLevel, PS_SOLID, 1, Color.blue, "Line1");
  }

} 

This way, everything is calculated automatically for me and all I have to do is record the "barcount" value and the "LineLevel" value anytime I want it to change.

If I did not want a "flat line", I would just record a second "LineEnd" and "LineEndLevel" - the calculations would be identical.

Hope this helps.

Brad