Pulldown menu in show_inputs within a script possible?
I thought about something like this but this syntax is obviously wrong:
#property strict #property show_inputs extern enum templateName {temp1, temp2, temp3}; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Script program start function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void OnStart() { //--- ChartApplyTemplate(0, templateName); }
Well, enums have uints under the hood. That is, they're both 4 bytes. But the name can be converted to a string.
As long as your template names can be expressed as proper variable name, i.e. no spaces or odd characters, you could use the enum construct, then convert it to a string when you need it.
enum EnTemplates { template1, template2, template3, template4 }; //--- input parameters input EnTemplates InpTemplate = template2; int OnInit() { const string templateName = EnumToString(InpTemplate); PrintFormat("The chosen template is [%s]",templateName); // Do something with the template here, e.g. // ChartApplyTemplate(ChartID,templateName); return INIT_SUCCEEDED; }
Well, enums have uints under the hood. That is, they're both 4 bytes. But the name can be converted to a string.
As long as your template names can be expressed as proper variable name, i.e. no spaces or odd characters, you could use the enum construct, then convert it to a string when you need it.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very very much!!!
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Hello,
I just want to know if it is possible to modify this script that I don't need to type the template's name. Instead I want to define some template names like {"temp1", "temp2", "temp3"} and these should be shown in a pulldown menu.
Difficult to explain but I hope it is understandable what I mean. You get a similar pulldown menu when you click on a line, open the dialog box and choose between different line widths.