iCustom and #property indicator_applied_price

[Philippe Pauleau]

HI

I am trying to use iCustom with the simple call form of OnCalculate indicator.

int  OnCalculate( 
   const int        rates_total,       // price[] array size 
   const int        prev_calculated,   // number of handled bars at the previous call 
   const int        begin,             // index number in the price[] array meaningful data starts from 
   const double&    price[]            // array of values for calculation 
   );

Using this form, we can define in the indicator the #property indicator_applied_price  in order to apply price to something other than PRICE_CLOSE

Help page is saying : "If the first call form is used in the indicator, then at the custom indicator start you can additionally indicate data for calculation in its "Parameters" tab. If the "Apply to" parameter is not selected explicitly, the default calculation is based on the values of "Close" prices."

#property indicator_applied_price PRICE_CLOSE works when attaching the indicator manualy to the charts using Terminal UI

but it is not taken into account when using iCustom inside EA code.

Do you know why ?

Thank you 

Regards

[Fernando Carreiro]

Philippe Pauleau: I am trying to use iCustom with the simple call form of OnCalculate indicator.

Please show your code where you are using the iCustom() call and wanting the default value for the applied price.

[Philippe Pauleau]

Fernando Carreiro #:
Please show your code where you are using the iCustom() call and wanting the default value for the applied price.

Sure.

Inside EA:

HandleBands    = iCustom(NULL,_TimeFrame,"Examples\BB.ex5",    _BandsPeriod,0,_BandsDeviation);

and I've modified the included Examples\BB.mq5 example indicator adding

#property indicator_applied_price PRICE_LOW

The UI interface is correctly using this property as default.
But iCustom function does not take it into account and still apply to PRICE_CLOSE which is the default

Strange