Text issues

[Paul Anscombe]

I am struggling here, I want to place multiple lines of text on the chart without using the COMMENT command because that is always covered by the chart and is hard to read. But I have tried all of the different text objects and none of them seem to allow the carriage return \r or line feed \n characters to work.

So it seems that for all the different types of objects you can have none will allow you to create more than a single line of text per object which seems a bit crazy to me. Is there a way to do this?

 

thanks

[onewithzachy]

MaxTrader:

I am struggling here, I want to place multiple lines of text on the chart without using the COMMENT command because that is always covered by the chart and is hard to read. But I have tried all of the different text objects and none of them seem to allow the carriage return \r or line feed \n characters to work.

So it seems that for all the different types of objects you can have none will allow you to create more than a single line of text per object which seems a bit crazy to me. Is there a way to do this?

thanks

Hi MaxTrader,

How's your weekend ?,

This is a script, and enjoy the weekend

:D

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Script program start function                                    |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

void OnStart()
  {
//---
  CREATE_TEXT_LABEL ("Hi", 10, 10, "Terminal", 15, clrLime);
  CREATE_TEXT_LABEL ("Your Acc Name is : "+AccountInfoString(ACCOUNT_NAME), 10, 25, "System", 10, clrAqua);
  CREATE_TEXT_LABEL ("Your Acc # is : "+IntegerToString(AccountInfoInteger(ACCOUNT_LOGIN)), 10, 40, "Lucida Console", 25, clrMagenta);
  CREATE_TEXT_LABEL ("And your money is : "+DoubleToString(AccountInfoDouble(ACCOUNT_BALANCE), 2), 10, 70, "Courier New", 30, clrRed);
  CREATE_TEXT_LABEL ("J", 10, 95, "Wingdings", 50, clrGold); //<<== try also Webdings ;)
 
  PlaySound("wait.wav");
  }

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

bool CREATE_TEXT_LABEL (string txt, int x, int y, string font_type, int font_size, color colour)
  {
  bool created;
  static int no;
  no ++;
  string name = "My text label "+ IntegerToString(no);
  created = ObjectCreate(0,name, OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0);
  if (created == true)
    {
    ObjectSetString( 0, name, OBJPROP_TEXT, txt);
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_CORNER, 0);        // <<== corner top left, play with it
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_XDISTANCE, x);
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_YDISTANCE, y);
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_SELECTABLE, true); // <<== make it selectable
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_SELECTED, false);  // <<== play with it, turn it to true
    ObjectSetString (0, name, OBJPROP_FONT, font_type);
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_FONTSIZE, font_size);
    ObjectSetInteger(0, name, OBJPROP_COLOR, colour);
    }
  return (created);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                                  |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Paul Anscombe]

onewithzachy:

Hi MaxTrader,

How's your weekend ?,

This is a script, and enjoy the weekend

:D

Hi  thanks very much for the prompt reply.  Your code certainly solves the problem, but does it not seem crazy that with all these features you can't use a line feed in a text string?

 

anyway thanks again

 

 

 

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[onewithzachy]

MaxTrader:

Hi  thanks very much for the prompt reply.  Your code certainly solves the problem, but does it not seem crazy that with all these features you can't use a line feed in a text string?

anyway thanks again

Hi MaxTrader, 

You're welcome. it's actually drawing text not writing one. :D 

:D 

[0xFF]

Hi All,

I would like to ask, why the OBJPROP_TEXT is limited to 63 characters?

I know, that I can use a class CCanvas and TextOut(...) to avoid this problem, but why to make it complicated? The OBJ_LABEL is already made, so why it is so limited???

Is there any possibility to change restriction for the OBJPROP_TEXT from 63 to 511 characters?

Thank you.

[Alain Verleyen]

0xFF:

Hi All,

I would like to ask, why the OBJPROP_TEXT is limited to 63 characters?

I know, that I can use a class CCanvas and TextOut(...) to avoid this problem, but why to make it complicated? The OBJ_LABEL is already made, so why it is so limited???

Is there any possibility to change restriction for the OBJPROP_TEXT from 63 to 511 characters?

Thank you.

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