How to insert NewLine in EasyLanguage Text() ?

March 27th, 2010, 10:33 PM

I can't figure it out! I'm sure it's simple but I can't find an example.

Code

                            
Text_SetString(pnltext, text("  Last: ", positionprofit(1), " / Today: ", todaynet, "  "));

I want to split the "Last: xxx" and "Today: xxx" on two separate lines. I tried adding ", newline, " to the text() but it made no difference.

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Mike

March 27th, 2010, 11:04 PM

time to try out that legendary MC support.

March 27th, 2010, 11:07 PM

cory

time to try out that legendary MC support.

LOL, if I don't have an answer by Monday I will

I figured someone here knows.

Mike

March 27th, 2010, 11:56 PM

Call newline function.

March 27th, 2010, 11:57 PM

aslan

Call newline function.

Can you give an example, because this doesn't work as I mentioned...

Code

                            
Text_SetString(pnltext, text("  Last: ", positionprofit(1), NewLine, " / Today: ", todaynet, "  "));

Thx!

Mike

March 28th, 2010, 12:01 AM

Try:

Text_SetString(pnltext, text(" Last: ", positionprofit(1), NewLine + " / Today: ", todaynet, " "));

When you have adjacent strings, you use the "+' instead of ",".

March 28th, 2010, 12:15 AM

I am not sure this will work.

You can have multi-line text on charts, but I suspect that when you add a text string via code, it will strip out the newlines. I went back to look at some of my old code, and I always placed two text objects to get the effect you are looking for.

The doc does not say you can or can not have multi line text objects, but I have not been able to get it to work with a quick attempt.

March 28th, 2010, 05:04 AM

Agree, it doesn't work.

The problem with two separate Text_New's is the chart scaling. I don't know how to properly space them (Close +/- xx ticks) because the chart scaling is always going to be different from day to day.

Hmm.

Mike

March 28th, 2010, 08:30 AM

Mike if you split them maybe you can try to use a text_float function also look at

getappinfo

aiLowestDispValue
aiHighestDispValue

TS SUPPORT :: View topic - Can this be done with EasyLanguage/PowerLanguage ?

here is text_float function . . .

Code

inputs:
    TextID( numericsimple ),                                                       
                    
    TextBarsBack( numericsimple ),                                                   
                                           
    TextPriceValuePercent( numericsimple ) ;                                 

variables:
    var0( false ),
    var1( 0 ),
    var2( 0 ),
    var3( 0 ) ;

if LastBarOnChart then
    begin
    var0 = Text_Exist( TextID ) ;
    if var0 then 
        begin
        var1 = GetAppInfo( aiHighestDispValue ) ;
        var2 = GetAppInfo( aiLowestDispValue ) ;
        var3 = var2 + 0.01 * TextPriceValuePercent *
         ( var1 - var2 ) ;
        Text_SetLocation( TextID, Date[TextBarsBack], Time[TextBarsBack],
         var3 ) ;
        Text_SetStyle( TextID, 2, 2 ) ;                                      
        end 
    else 
        RaiseRunTimeError( "TextID does not exist." ) ;
    end ;

Text_Float = 1 ;

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Here is an example of text and text_setlocation from medplex. little different than what you wanted but may help in future projects.

Tutorial 42 | Drawing lines and text on a chart