Calling a function from another window/indicator

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I know this can be done, because I have seen it done before but cannot find the function to do this.

How do you call a function from another indicator or somehow pass data from one indicator to another?

 

iCustom() ........

 

thanks, but what is the value returned from teh custom indicator? is it the return value of "start()" ?

 
clam61:
thanks, but what is the value returned from teh custom indicator? is it the return value of "start()" ?

double iCustom( string symbol, int timeframe, string name, ..., int mode, int shift)

Calculates the specified custom indicator and returns its value.The custom indicator must be compiled (*.EX4 file) and be in the terminal_directory\experts\indicators directory.

Parameters:

symbol - Symbol the data of which should be used to calculate indicator. NULL means current symbol.

timeframe - Timeframe. It can be any of Timeframe enumeration values. 0 means the current chart timeframe.

name - Custom indicator compiled program name.

... - Parameters set (if necessary). The passed parameters and their order must correspond with the desclaration order and the type of extern variables of the custom indicator.

mode - Line index. Can be from 0 to 7 and must correspond with the index used by one of SetIndexBuffer functions.

shift - Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago).

Sample:

double val=iCustom(NULL, 0, "SampleInd",13,1,0);

 

o, it gets a value from the buffers? got it.

thanks

Nicholishen:
double iCustom( string symbol, int timeframe, string name, ..., int mode, int shift)

Calculates the specified custom indicator and returns its value.The custom indicator must be compiled (*.EX4 file) and be in the terminal_directory\experts\indicators directory.

Parameters:

symbol - Symbol the data of which should be used to calculate indicator. NULL means current symbol.

timeframe - Timeframe. It can be any of Timeframe enumeration values. 0 means the current chart timeframe.

name - Custom indicator compiled program name.

... - Parameters set (if necessary). The passed parameters and their order must correspond with the desclaration order and the type of extern variables of the custom indicator.

mode - Line index. Can be from 0 to 7 and must correspond with the index used by one of SetIndexBuffer functions.

shift - Index of the value taken from the indicator buffer (shift relative to the current bar the given amount of periods ago).

Sample:

double val=iCustom(NULL, 0, "SampleInd",13,1,0);
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