Screenshot script? - page 6

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That is always the best solution fore very short intervals of taking snapshots

 
#property description "The Expert Advisor demonstrates how to create a series of screenshots of the current"

#property description "chart using the ChartScreenShot() function. For convenience, the file name is"

#property description "shown on the chart. The height and width of images is defined through macros."

//---

#define WIDTH 800 // Image width to call ChartScreenShot()

#define HEIGHT 600 // Image height to call ChartScreenShot()

//--- input parameters

input int pictures=5; // The number of images in the series

int mode=-1; // -1 denotes a shift to the right edge of the chart, 1 - to the left

int bars_shift=300;// The number of bars when scrolling the chart using ChartNavigate()

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| Expert initialization function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnInit()

{

//--- Disable chart autoscroll

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_AUTOSCROLL,false);

//--- Set the shift of the right edge of the chart

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_SHIFT,true);

//--- Show a candlestick chart

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_MODE,CHART_CANDLES);

//---

Print("Preparation of the Expert Advisor is completed");

}

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| Expert tick function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnTick()

{

//---

}

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| ChartEvent function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnChartEvent(const int id,

const long &lparam,

const double &dparam,

const string &sparam)

{

//--- Show the name of the function, call time and event identifier

Print(__FUNCTION__,TimeCurrent()," id=",id," mode=",mode);

//--- Handle the CHARTEVENT_CLICK event ("A mouse click on the chart")

if(id==CHARTEVENT_CLICK)

{

//--- Initial shift from the chart edge

int pos=0;

//--- Operation with the left chart edge

if(mode>0)

{

//--- Scroll the chart to the left edge

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_BEGIN,pos);

for(int i=0;i<pictures;i++)

{

//--- Prepare a text to show on the chart and a file name

string name="ChartScreenShot"+"CHART_BEGIN"+string(pos)+".gif";

//--- Show the name on the chart as a comment

Comment(name);

//--- Save the chart screenshot in a file in the terminal_directory\MQL4\Files\

if(ChartScreenShot(0,name,WIDTH,HEIGHT,ALIGN_LEFT))

Print("We've saved the screenshot ",name);

//---

pos+=bars_shift;

//--- Give the user time to look at the new part of the chart

Sleep(3000);

//--- Scroll the chart from the current position bars_shift bars to the right

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_CURRENT_POS,bars_shift);

}

//--- Change the mode to the opposite

mode*=-1;

}

else // Operation with the right chart edge

{

//--- Scroll the chart to the right edge

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_END,pos);

for(int i=0;i<pictures;i++)

{

//--- Prepare a text to show on the chart and a file name

string name="ChartScreenShot"+"CHART_END"+string(pos)+".gif";

//--- Show the name on the chart as a comment

Comment(name);

//--- Save the chart screenshot in a file in the terminal_directory\MQL4\Files\

if(ChartScreenShot(0,name,WIDTH,HEIGHT,ALIGN_RIGHT))

Print("We've saved the screenshot ",name);

//---

pos+=bars_shift;

//--- Give the user time to look at the new part of the chart

Sleep(3000);

//--- Scroll the chart from the current position bars_shift bars to the right

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_CURRENT_POS,-bars_shift);

}

//--- Change the mode to the opposite

mode*=-1;

}

} // End of CHARTEVENT_CLICK event handling

//--- End of the OnChartEvent() handler

}

can the time be converted from tick to tick instead of second or minute?

http://docs.mql4.com/chart_operations/chartscreenshot

 
mwambaFX:
#property description "The Expert Advisor demonstrates how to create a series of screenshots of the current"

#property description "chart using the ChartScreenShot() function. For convenience, the file name is"

#property description "shown on the chart. The height and width of images is defined through macros."

//---

#define WIDTH 800 // Image width to call ChartScreenShot()

#define HEIGHT 600 // Image height to call ChartScreenShot()

//--- input parameters

input int pictures=5; // The number of images in the series

int mode=-1; // -1 denotes a shift to the right edge of the chart, 1 - to the left

int bars_shift=300;// The number of bars when scrolling the chart using ChartNavigate()

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| Expert initialization function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnInit()

{

//--- Disable chart autoscroll

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_AUTOSCROLL,false);

//--- Set the shift of the right edge of the chart

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_SHIFT,true);

//--- Show a candlestick chart

ChartSetInteger(0,CHART_MODE,CHART_CANDLES);

//---

Print("Preparation of the Expert Advisor is completed");

}

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| Expert tick function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnTick()

{

//---

}

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

//| ChartEvent function |

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnChartEvent(const int id,

const long &lparam,

const double &dparam,

const string &sparam)

{

//--- Show the name of the function, call time and event identifier

Print(__FUNCTION__,TimeCurrent()," id=",id," mode=",mode);

//--- Handle the CHARTEVENT_CLICK event ("A mouse click on the chart")

if(id==CHARTEVENT_CLICK)

{

//--- Initial shift from the chart edge

int pos=0;

//--- Operation with the left chart edge

if(mode>0)

{

//--- Scroll the chart to the left edge

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_BEGIN,pos);

for(int i=0;i<pictures;i++)

{

//--- Prepare a text to show on the chart and a file name

string name="ChartScreenShot"+"CHART_BEGIN"+string(pos)+".gif";

//--- Show the name on the chart as a comment

Comment(name);

//--- Save the chart screenshot in a file in the terminal_directory\MQL4\Files\

if(ChartScreenShot(0,name,WIDTH,HEIGHT,ALIGN_LEFT))

Print("We've saved the screenshot ",name);

//---

pos+=bars_shift;

//--- Give the user time to look at the new part of the chart

Sleep(3000);

//--- Scroll the chart from the current position bars_shift bars to the right

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_CURRENT_POS,bars_shift);

}

//--- Change the mode to the opposite

mode*=-1;

}

else // Operation with the right chart edge

{

//--- Scroll the chart to the right edge

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_END,pos);

for(int i=0;i<pictures;i++)

{

//--- Prepare a text to show on the chart and a file name

string name="ChartScreenShot"+"CHART_END"+string(pos)+".gif";

//--- Show the name on the chart as a comment

Comment(name);

//--- Save the chart screenshot in a file in the terminal_directory\MQL4\Files\

if(ChartScreenShot(0,name,WIDTH,HEIGHT,ALIGN_RIGHT))

Print("We've saved the screenshot ",name);

//---

pos+=bars_shift;

//--- Give the user time to look at the new part of the chart

Sleep(3000);

//--- Scroll the chart from the current position bars_shift bars to the right

ChartNavigate(0,CHART_CURRENT_POS,-bars_shift);

}

//--- Change the mode to the opposite

mode*=-1;

}

} // End of CHARTEVENT_CLICK event handling

//--- End of the OnChartEvent() handler

}

can the time be converted from tick to tick instead of second or minute?

http://docs.mql4.com/chart_operations/chartscreenshot

mwambaFX

Saving a screenshot on each tick would kill your CPU. Even 1 second is heavy on it, but from tick t tick would be too much

 
mladen:

mwambaFX

Saving a screenshot on each tick would kill your CPU. Even 1 second is heavy on it, but from tick t tick would be too much

What would be the optimal interval for saving screenshots?

 
nbtrading:
What would be the optimal interval for saving screenshots?

No strict rule of thumb but it should not be too often (saving the file can be time consuming and when the destination folder contains a lot of snapshots, it can get very slow)

 

just for research sake... here is a tick by tick screenshot indicator...

As mladen has warned... be prepared for a lot of files

snapshot_2.mq4

Files:
snapshot_2.mq4  2 kb
 
mwambaFX:
just for research sake... here is a tick by tick screenshot indicator...

As mladen has warned... be prepared for a lot of files

snapshot_2.mq4

When the number of files in a folder grows over 1024, then it will slow down very much

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