Debug with formula window

[danderson]

Is there a way to copy or print debug information sent to the formula window for latter analyses?

I also tried writing to a file with append, opening at the beginning of the function then closing at the end. In the end I only got one line of information and it was the last one?

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello danderson,

Please visit the following thread. There is some good information here that will show you how to write to a text file.

http://forum.esignal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=823

Regards,

[gspiker]

If you look in youe eSignal directory, there is a file called: "formulaoutput" that will have the latest info that was output to the formula output window.

About writing to a file. While it is possible to do an open with append and then a write in the body of main(), it is much easier to code correctly an open in preMain() and the do the writes in main.

Don't forget to keep the file handle (sorry too used to C...) in the local global space (ie: Outside of and function calls such as main() or preMain().

G

[dloomis]

I currently do something like this

var f1; //used for the output file
var Log1;

function main(){

today = new Date;
my_day = today.getDate();
my_month = today.getMonth() + 1;
my_year = today.getFullYear();
// FILENAME WILL LOOK LIKE ES-MM-DD-YYYY.txt
Log1 = sym+"-"+ my_month + "-" + my_day + "-" + my_year+".txt";
f1 = new File(Log1); // PUT IT IN FORMULA OUTPUT
f1.open("a+");

if(!f1.isOpen()){
debugPrintln("*** Couldn't open TRADE LOG!");
}else{
debugPrintln("*** "+sym+" TRADE LOG OPEN");
}
curtext = " TRADE LOG OPEN";
Write2FandE();
return;


function Write2FandE(){
today =new Date;
CurHours =today.getHours();
CurMinutes=today.getMinutes();
CurSeconds=today.getSeconds();

if(CurHours <10){
CurHours ="0"+CurHours ;
}

if(CurMinutes<10){
CurMinutes="0"+CurMinutes;
}

if(CurSeconds<10){
CurSeconds="0"+CurSeconds;
}

vString = CurHours+"."+CurMinutes+"."+CurSeconds+"."+sym+"." +curtext;

debugPrintln(vString);
f1.writeln(vString);

if(Alert=="ON"){
dots5.call("SetEmailDefaults","mail.attbi.com","Tr ader","[email protected]","");
dots5.call("EmailAlert","",vString,sym);
}
return;
}