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Has anyone here made a bigger set of arrows for NT???
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Has anyone here made a bigger set of arrows for NT???
May 11th, 2010, 10:24 AM
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Has anyone here made a bigger set of arrows for NT???
NT's arrows are a little small on some of my charts.
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You might try using DrawText instead in combination with Wingdings. Just open up Word or whatever on your system and look at Wingdings 1,2,3, type on your keyboard and find a symbol you like (several arrow types), then control the size with DrawText Font Size.
Mike
May 12th, 2010, 10:40 AM
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RJay
Has anyone here made a bigger set of arrows for NT???
NT's arrows are a little small on some of my charts.
Hello RJay,
I don't use NT7 yet but here's some code snippets from 6.5
Code
#region Variables
private Font textFontSymbol = new Font( "Webdings" , 20 ); //"a" is checkmark
private Font textFontSymbolWing = new Font( "Wingdings" , 16 ); //"l" is a circle
private Font textFontSymbolWing_3 = new Font( "Wingdings 3" , 16 ); //
#endregion
Code
if (Close[ 0 ] < Close[ 5 ])//testing only
{
DrawText( "UpArrow" +CurrentBar, false , "ñ" , 0 ,High[ 0 ] + 4 *TickSize,Color.Blue,textFontSymbolWing,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "UpRightArrow" +CurrentBar, false , "ö" , 0 ,High[ 0 ] + 8 *TickSize,Color.Blue,textFontSymbolWing,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "RightArrow" +CurrentBar, false , "ð" , 0 ,High[ 0 ] + 12 *TickSize,Color.Blue,textFontSymbolWing,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "DownRightArrow" +CurrentBar, false , "ø" , 0 ,High[ 0 ] + 16 *TickSize,Color.Blue,textFontSymbolWing,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "DownArrow" +CurrentBar, false , "ò" , 0 ,High[ 0 ] + 20 *TickSize,Color.Blue,textFontSymbolWing,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "UpArrow3" +CurrentBar, false , "ã" , 0 ,Low[ 0 ] - 4 *TickSize,Color.Red,textFontSymbolWing_3,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "UpRightArrow3" +CurrentBar, false , "æ" , 0 ,Low[ 0 ] - 8 *TickSize,Color.Red,textFontSymbolWing_3,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "RightArrow3" +CurrentBar, false , "â" , 0 ,Low[ 0 ] - 12 *TickSize,Color.Red,textFontSymbolWing_3,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "DownRightArrow3" +CurrentBar, false , "è" , 0 ,Low[ 0 ] - 16 *TickSize,Color.Red,textFontSymbolWing_3,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
DrawText( "DownArrow3" +CurrentBar, false , "ä" , 0 ,Low[ 0 ] - 20 *TickSize,Color.Red,textFontSymbolWing_3,StringAlignment.Center, Color.Empty,Color.Empty, 10 );
}
HTH,
Kirk
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May 12th, 2010, 11:01 AM
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You also could try Alt characters like this ▼ or ▲ which are generated by holding the Alt key and typing 31 or 30 on the keypad and then releasing the Alt key. Changing your Font size will change the symbol size. Dan
May 12th, 2010, 11:13 AM
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Thanks, Dan,
I forgot to mention that I use the Character Map in windows.
Then, you can see what symbol you're looking for, select it to the window, copy that, and paste in the correct location within the DrawText code.
HTH,
Kirk
May 12th, 2010, 11:20 AM
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Are you talking about the on screen keyboard? I wish I had it but it seems to be missing from my windows install on this comp.
May 12th, 2010, 11:36 AM
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TechSmith | Screencast.com, online video sharing, 2010-05-12_1134
yes,
I found mine on Start button>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools
Hope you find it.
kz
May 12th, 2010, 12:22 PM
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I know where it is supposed to be but it is not there. Grrr.
May 12th, 2010, 12:34 PM
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i was pretty sure you knew! that answer was for others who may not know...
I hate reinstalling windows...
kz
Last Updated on May 12, 2010