Horizontal line determine before and after price

YellowstoneBridge 2021.02.20 17:18

Hello everybody,

Can somebody point me in the right direction with my problem?

I already have a Horizontal line on chart, and I will move it manually with drag and drop.

I need to find the starting price of the line (first price position). I tried all the properties that i could find.

OBJECT_PRICE and OBJECT_PRICE1 are equal to last position price.

Here is my code:

void OnChartEvent(const int id,
                  const long &lparam,
                  const double &dparam,
                  const string &sparam)
{
   if(id==CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_DRAG)
     {
      if (sparam == "test"){

            if (ObjectFind(sparam) != -1){
               double p1 =  ObjectGetDouble(0,sparam,OBJPROP_PRICE,0);
               double p2 =  ObjectGetDouble(0,sparam,OBJPROP_PRICE1,0);
               double p4 =  ObjectGetDouble(0,sparam,OBJPROP_DEVIATION,0);
               double p3 =  ObjectGetDouble(0,sparam,OBJPROP_PRICE2,0);
            }
     }
}

Any ideas?

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YellowstoneBridge 2021.02.23 12:10 #1

no luck till now, I haven't found a solution, if I found one, I will post it here

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Paul Anscombe 2021.02.23 12:21 #2

YellowstoneBridge:

Hello everybody,

Can somebody point me in the right direction with my problem?

I already have a Horizontal line on chart, and I will move it manually with drag and drop.

I need to find the starting price of the line (first price position). I tried all the properties that i could find.

OBJECT_PRICE and OBJECT_PRICE1 are equal to last position price.

Here is my code:

Any ideas?

at any time the horizontal line object only has a single price, so you will only ever get the current price.

Simply store the starting price from when you created the line or moved it before then you will have before and after

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Keith Watford 2021.02.23 12:44 #3

Paul Anscombe:

at any time the horizontal line object only has a single price, so you will only ever get the current price.

Simply store the starting price from when you created the line or moved it before then you will have before and after

Yellowstone could use the price as a string in the object description. Obviously this would have to be done when the object is created.

Then when the line is moved, get the object description, convert it back to a double and set the object description to the new price.

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YellowstoneBridge 2021.02.23 13:12 #4

Paul Anscombe:

at any time the horizontal line object only has a single price, so you will only ever get the current price.

Simply store the starting price from when you created the line or moved it before then you will have before and after

thank you, for the clarification

I thought that I could develop this without additional variables

I will try your solution thank you

YellowstoneBridge 2021.02.23 13:14 #5

Keith Watford:

Yellowstone could use the price as a string in the object description. Obviously this would have to be done when the object is created.

Then when the line is moved, get the object description, convert it back to a double and set the object description to the new price.

this is a nice workaround, I like this, but I'll use a separate variable for achieving this functionality

thank you

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