I'm struggling with a seemingly simple task; displaying a bar number of each tick bar in a strategy.

Here's what I currently have:

 

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Value1 = Text_New(Bardatetime.ElDate,Bardatetime.ELTime,H,Numtostr(CurrentBar,0)); Text_setcolor(Value1,Blue); Text_setstyle(Value1,2,1);

I would have thought if I could get the current bar's date and time and then use that to plot the positions, it would work but alas, no dice.

Here's what it looks like:

Why not display the highest high value and the lowest low value. It seems that is what you really want.

All the best,

WCwings

This is the one I use when I want a bar count. Only counts every other due to clutter but perhaps you can modify the logic to suit your needs. Good Luck

WCwings 

Why not display the highest high value and the lowest low value. It seems that is what you really want. All the best, WCwings

Because I just want the bar number?

adbertram,

legacy EasyLanguage text drawings can only be drawn with minute accuracy and according to your screenshot you are using non time based bars where multiple bars can fall in the same minute. In case multiple bars happen within the same minute you will have multiple text labels on the first bar of that minute.
I would suggest taking a look at Object Oriented EasyLanguage drawing objects that will allow you to specify a bar number for the drawing.

Regards,

ABCTG

adbertram 

I'm struggling with a seemingly simple task; displaying a bar number of each tick bar in a strategy. Here's what I currently have:   Code Value1 = Text_New(Bardatetime.ElDate,Bardatetime.ELTime,H,Numtostr(CurrentBar,0)); Text_setcolor(Value1,Blue); Text_setstyle(Value1,2,1); I would have thought if I could get the current bar's date and time and then use that to plot the positions, it would work but alas, no dice. Here's what it looks like:

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The numbers are under the bar, but otherwise ...