Alerts on Studies

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setComputeOnClose and Alerts

The alerts seem only to work for me when setComputeOnClose is off, either in the efs code or in EFS settings. For example, Alert/AlertMA.efs mouths off merrily, but goes silent when I make all formulas compute on close in EFS settings. Is this a known feature and can i work around it? I'd like alerts when setComputeOnClose is true.

On another matter, how can I alter Alerts/AlertsMA.efs to allow the MA length to be user-adjustable. It looks like the MA study object should be created outside of main(), but I had the impression that the only way to pass parameters into the code was as arguments to main.

Thanks,
Sandy Morton

[DionLoy]

Hi Sandy,

You are correct. Currently all of the Alert.* functions (addToList(), email() and playSound()) only work on a tick by tick basis.

They will not execute if setComputeOnClose() is 'true'.

We'll see what we can do about changing this for v7.3

Thanks!

[dloomis]

what does the code for a popup window look like

is it in the Alert. family

Alert.Popup("Hey sell that POS");