Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart  [SOLVED]

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Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart

Postby arjfca » 01 Oct 2014

Hello

Is there a way that I could look on a chart to find a given text that was manually intalled and if found replace it?

I did look in the Text Manipulation code but did see nothing regarding that.

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Re: Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 01 Oct 2014

Hello Martin,

Do you want to find a specific string using code?

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Re: Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart

Postby arjfca » 01 Oct 2014

Hello Martin,

Do you want to find a specific string using code?
Yes

I want to adjust to the right side of the screen some specific commentary that I put on the screen like "WRB"

I did not found the function that allow me to search trough all text on the chart

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Re: Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 01 Oct 2014

There is no such rebuilt function. You will need to create your own one that loops through all of the drawings on the chart, gets their values and checks if there is one that matches the required string.

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Re: Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart

Postby arjfca » 01 Oct 2014

There is no such rebuilt function. You will need to create your own one that loops through all of the drawings on the chart, gets their values and checks if there is one that matches the required string.
Henry,
Witch function would allow me to evaluate each drawing

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Re: Using code: Finding "Text" on a chart  [SOLVED]

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 01 Oct 2014

Here is a sample code:

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input: What2Find("hello");

Value1 = Text_GetFirst(3);

While Value1 <> -2 Begin
if What2Find = text_getstring(Value1) then break;
Value1 = Text_GetNext(Value1, 3);
End;

Plot1(Value1);


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