How to use ACS buttons to turn a study on/off

January 9th, 2014, 12:07 PM

Hi,

wouldl ike to see if anyone can help me out on the following issue. I am looking to use the ACS buttons in SC in order to turn on a certain study. The following code does not seem to work.
Does anybody have another way of doing this?

Thanks in advance,

FHV

Code

SCInputRef Enabled = sc.Input[0]; 
 
 
// wait for an event 
  if (sc.MenuEventID != 0) 
  { 
    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1) 
    { 
        Enabled.SetYesNo(1); 
    } 
  } 
  else 
  { 
    Enabled.SetYesNo(0); 
  } 
 
  if (!Enabled.GetYesNo()) 
    return; 
 
/// the rest of my study

January 9th, 2014, 09:13 PM

Figured it out how to do this. Its a nice feature to toggle between strategies. Hope somebody can use it as well.

Goodluck.

FHV

Code

if (sc.MenuEventID != 0)  

  {  

    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1)  

    {  

      if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_ON) 

      { 

        Enabled.SetYesNo(1);  

      } 

      else if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_OFF) 

      { 

        Enabled.SetYesNo(0); 

      } 

    } 

  }   

 

  if (!Enabled.GetYesNo()) 

           return; 

 

// rest of the study 

 

// place an order with brackets when completed 

//.... 

// acs button to off 

  sc.SetACSToolEnable(SC_ACS_TOOL1, false); 

  Enabled.SetYesNo(0);

January 11th, 2014, 10:21 AM

Hi
take a look here :

Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, ToolBar Buttons, Mouse Pointer Events - Sierra Chart

sc.ReceiveMousePointerEvents = 1;

i did 2 buttons , LONG & SHORT , they work only with attached charts

April 3rd, 2018, 10:12 PM

crazybears

Hi
take a look here :

Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, ToolBar Buttons, Mouse Pointer Events - Sierra Chart

sc.ReceiveMousePointerEvents = 1;

i did 2 buttons , LONG & SHORT , they work only with attached charts

Hello..
Maybe it's 4 years to late, but would you please share the long/short on/off code.
I'm new to SC/programing and any help will be appreciated
TK

August 12th, 2022, 07:30 PM

I'm very interested to know how you created this too please.

August 14th, 2022, 07:38 PM

Using the above code you would replicate that for two buttons, replace the Enabled.SetYesNo(1) with a PersistentInt for long and one for short and toggle that to 1 or 0 then in your trading code use that PersistentInt as a bool flag.

Like this for long trades

Code

int& TakeLongs= sc.GetPersistentInt(0);

if (sc.Index == 0)
    TakeLongs = 0;


if (sc.MenuEventID != 0)  
{  
    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1)  
    {  
      if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_ON) 
      { 
        TakeLongs = 1;  
      } 
      else if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_OFF) 
      { 
        TakeLongs = 0;
      } 

    } 
}   


if (TakeLongs == 1)
{
    // Logic to take long trades
}

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