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I want to include a box in the top right hand corner of my screen with 6 lines of data which change each time period (i.e. 1M,5M,30M etc).

I have seen some details about the mt4gui but not too much. I have extracted the following code from an example and the 'box' and TimeCurrent are displayed

The references to the font, font size and color seem to be ignored - am I missing something or not using correctly?

Can I use this process to create a multi-line display?

#import "mt4gui.dll"   
   int tbPutObject(int,string,int,int,int,int,string);
   int tbRemoveAll(int);
   int tbSetText(int,string,int,string);
   int tbSetBgColor(int,int);
   int tbSetTextColor(int,int);
#import
#include <libtrade.mqh>
#include <libvisual.mqh>
int l1;
int init()
  {    
      return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int deinit()
  {
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| expert start function                                            |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {   int hwnd=WindowHandle(Symbol(),Period());
      tbRemoveAll(hwnd); ObjectsDeleteAll();
      l1=tbPutObject(hwnd,"text",850,100,200,20,TimeCurrent());   //from left, from top, width of box, height of box  
      tbSetBgColor(l1,Green); 
      tbSetTextColor(l1,Yellow);
      tbSetText(l1,"text",24,"Arial");  
      
    
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You remove all objects, then create a text object.

At the next tick, the start() function is called and removes the object, then creates it again.

Makes no sense.

If you want to keep the object on the chart, you need to create it once (not at each tick)

and only when you don´t want it on the chart anymore, remove it.

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