Printing true or false

Fernando Carreiro 2017.11.25 12:52 #1

Kenneth Bachelor: I have a program which includes a 'Use Trade Time' option and want to display the answer 'true' or 'false' on a chart. All I can get it to print is '0' zero. Please can anybody help me?

Probably yes, but how? You have not shown your code attempt, so how do you expect us to see what you are doing wrong and offer you advice?

Carl Schreiber 2017.11.25 13:16 #2

Kenneth Bachelor:

I have a program which includes a 'Use Trade Time' option and want to display the answer 'true' or 'false' on a chart.

All I can get it to print is '0' zero. Please can anybody help me?

Thanks

Ken

try (string)(bool-variable)

Kenneth Bachelor 2017.11.25 13:23 #3

Fernando Carreiro:
Probably yes, but how? You have not shown your code attempt, so how do you expect us to see what you are doing wrong and offer you advice?

I have the following in my code and it all works except the one in red which displays '0'

I have extern bool
UseTradeTime = true;

and
        Comment(
        "Magic No: "                      + IntegerToString(MagicNumber)                + "         " +
        "Initial T/P: "                   + IntegerToString(InitialTakeProfit)          + "            " +
        "Group Mulitplier: "              + DoubleToString (GroupMultiplier, 2)         + "       " +
        "Max Trades in Series: "          + IntegerToString(MaxTradeInSeries)           + "    " +
        "Initial Lots Percent Risk: "     + DoubleToString (InitialLotsPercentRisk, 3) + "%   " +
        "Open next series after bars: "   + IntegerToString(OpenNextSeriesAfterBars)    + "    " +"\n"+
        "Stop-Loss: "                     + IntegerToString (StopLoss)                  + "        " +
        "Add T/P Pips: "                  + IntegerToString(AddTPPips)                 + "       " +
        "Trade Size Increase: "           + DoubleToString (TradeSizeIncrease, 2)       + "           " +
        "Use Trade Time: "                + (UseTradeTime)                              + "           " +
        "Trade Time Start: "              + TradeTime_Start                             + "           " +
        "Trade Time End: "                + TradeTime_End                               + "    " +
                 "\n"   )

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Kenneth Bachelor 2017.11.25 13:41 #4

Carl Schreiber:
try (string)(bool-variable)

That was my first thought Carl, but it just prints '0'

Fernando Carreiro 2017.11.25 13:48 #5

Kenneth Bachelor:

I have the following in my code and it all works except the one in red which displays '0'

I have extern bool
UseTradeTime = true;

and
        Comment(
        "Magic No: "                      + IntegerToString(MagicNumber)                + "         " +
        "Initial T/P: "                   + IntegerToString(InitialTakeProfit)          + "            " +
        "Group Mulitplier: "              + DoubleToString (GroupMultiplier, 2)         + "       " +
        "Max Trades in Series: "          + IntegerToString(MaxTradeInSeries)           + "    " +
        "Initial Lots Percent Risk: "     + DoubleToString (InitialLotsPercentRisk, 3) + "%   " +
        "Open next series after bars: "   + IntegerToString(OpenNextSeriesAfterBars)    + "    " +"\n"+
        "Stop-Loss: "                     + IntegerToString (StopLoss)                  + "        " +
        "Add T/P Pips: "                  + IntegerToString(AddTPPips)                 + "       " +
        "Trade Size Increase: "           + DoubleToString (TradeSizeIncrease, 2)       + "           " +
        "Use Trade Time: "                + (UseTradeTime)                              + "           " +
        "Trade Time Start: "              + TradeTime_Start                             + "           " +
        "Trade Time End: "                + TradeTime_End                               + "    " +
                 "\n"   )

use the "#property strict" in the begining of your code.
use the StringConcatenate() function instead of stringing everything together. ( Comment() function already does concatenation )

// This code was not compiled/tested and only serves as an example

#property strict

// ...

extern bool
   UseTradeTime = true; 

// ...

   Comment(
      "Magic No: ",                    MagicNumber,                                 "         ",
      "Initial T/P: ",                 InitialTakeProfit,                           "            ",  
      "Group Mulitplier: ",            DoubleToString( GroupMultiplier, 2 ),        "       ",
      "Max Trades in Series:  ",       MaxTradeInSeries,                            "    ",
      "Initial Lots Percent Risk: ",   DoubleToString( InitialLotsPercentRisk, 3 ), "%   ",
      "Open next series after bars: ", OpenNextSeriesAfterBars,                     "    \n",  
      "Stop-Loss: ",                   StopLoss,                                    "        ",
      "Add T/P Pips:  ",               AddTPPips,                                   "       ",
      "Trade Size Increase: ",         DoubleToString( TradeSizeIncrease, 2 ),      "           ",
      "Use Trade Time: ",              UseTradeTime,                                "           ", 
      "Trade Time Start: ",            TradeTime_Start,                             "           ",
      "Trade Time End: ",              TradeTime_End,                               "    \n"
      );

Kenneth Bachelor 2017.11.25 14:09 #6

Fernando Carreiro:

use the "#property strict" in the begining of your code.
use the StringConcatenate() function instead of stringing everything together.

Thanks Fernando. I think I'm just going to have to leave the line out of what's displayed, because it's totally beyond me.

Fernando Carreiro 2017.11.25 14:10 #7

Kenneth Bachelor: Thanks Fernando. I think I'm just going to have to leave the line out of what's displayed, because it's totally beyond me.

Review the post as I have edited it! It is not that difficult! Its just minor changes!

nicholish en 2017.11.26 09:15 #8

Or you could use a turnary operator

"..."+(bool_var?"true":"false")+"...";

Carl Schreiber 2017.11.26 11:04 #9

Kenneth Bachelor:
That was my first thought Carl, but it just prints '0'

Really?

I am currently using

bool isTrue = true;
Print(..,"  isTrue: ",(string)isTrue,...);

and it prints everytime:

... isTrue: true ...