Text on Chart (beginner)

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Please would some kind person explain what I'm doing wrong here (MT4 EA).

Compile 0 errors and  Charts/Objects/Object List  confirms the object, but no text appears on the chart  (background black for clrWhite).

Tried without the if condition also with Time[0], Close[0]  but no difference.

Many thanks.

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Expert tick function                                             |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

int h=TimeHour(TimeCurrent());

void OnTick()

{

If if(h==9)

    {

ObjectCreate ("AtOpen",OBJ_TEXT,0,0,0);
ObjectCreate("AtOpen", OBJ_TEXT, 0,Time[1], Close[1] );
ObjectSetText ("AtOpen", "Opn:",10,"Calibri",clrWhite);

    }

}
  
ObjectCreate ("AtOpen",OBJ_TEXT,0,0,0);
ObjectCreate("AtOpen", OBJ_TEXT, 0,Time[1], Close[1] );
ObjectSetText ("AtOpen", "Opn:",10,"Calibri",clrWhite);
  1. The first created an object using time=0, it is on the extreme left, first bar of the chart.
  2. The second did nothing, you already have a object with that name.
  3. The third set the text.
 

Following your clue  I inserted ObjectMove. Now I can see the "Opn:" text at the current bar using the CurrentTime variant.

 I need the text to appear each day at 9am. Changing CurrentTime to 9  doesn't work. Please would you show me how to do that.

ObjectCreate ("AtOpen",OBJ_TEXT,0,0,0);
ObjectMove( "AtOpen", 0, CurrentTime, High[1] );
ObjectSetText ("AtOpen", "Opn:",10,"Calibri",clrWhite);
 
Of course "Changing CurrentTime to 9  doesn't work." A datetime is seconds from 1970
#define HR0900 32400 // 9*3600
when = date() + HR0900;
if(when > TimeCurrent() when = yesterday() + HR0900;
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Thanks whroeder1 for taking the time. Spent 2 hours trying to make it work to no avail. Whole thing just seems overly complex as mentioned in your link.

 

I didn't want to sound ungrateful in any way as I appreciate the assistance  offered. 
As an absolute beginner I'm learning from those like whroeder1 who are generous enough to send help to folks  in this forum.

Just in case it may ever be of any interest (though I doubt it)  to someone like myself who knows so very little of MQL but is attempting to learn partly by writing their EA, I discovered adjusting the ObjectCreate   places the text object to the 9am bar  as follows

void OnTick()

  {
int h=TimeHour(TimeCurrent()); 
int m=TimeMinute(TimeCurrent());

//Session Open

if (h==9 && m==0)
      {
   ObjectCreate("AtOpen", OBJ_TEXT, 0, Time[0], High[0]);
   ObjectSetText ("AtOpen", "Opn:",10,"Calibri",clrWhite); 
      }

}    

Thanks again for the help, much appreciated.

  
int h=TimeHour(TimeCurrent()); 
int m=TimeMinute(TimeCurrent());
if (h==9 && m==0)
That only works if there is a tick during that minute, otherwise it fails. There can be minutes between ticks during the Asian session, think M1 chart.
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