How to align text? [SOLVED]

arnie · Postby **arnie** » 12 Oct 2014

I'm debating here on how can we align text.

Using this code as an example

input:

	pct		(14.5),

	ytvol		(21563),

	tvol		(156874),

	nubar		(45);







Plot1((NumToStr(pct,1) + "%" + spaces(4) 

	+ NumToStr(ytvol,0) + spaces(4)

	+ NumToStr(tvol,0) + spaces(4)

	+ NumToStr(nubar,0) + spaces(4)

	+ FormatTime("HH:mm", datetime) + "h"));

The idea is to be used in the Scanner.
Looking a the bottom part of the attached image, we have a perfect aligned text. This is normal since all strings have the same length.
The problem is with the top part of the image where we have strings with different lengths which difficult the way we read the information. Our eyes need to zig-zag between the data.
My question is how can we align strings with different lengths so the final result be something like the bottom part of the image?

I know there's a keyword STRLEN that should help in this case but I have no idea on how to apply it.
The idea would be to read the highest string length and then "plot" that length into the other strings, but how to do that?

SP · Postby SP » 12 Oct 2014

arnie,

if you use it only in the scanner you could use 5 plots, one for each text.

Or you code like this

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input:

   pct      (14.5),

   ytvol      (21563),

   tvol      (156874),

   nubar      (45);







Plot1((NumToStr(pct,1) + "%" + spaces(10-StrLen(NumToStr(ytvol,0) )) 

   + NumToStr(ytvol,0) + spaces(10-StrLen(NumToStr(tvol,0) ))

   + NumToStr(tvol,0) + spaces(8-StrLen(NumToStr(nubar,0) ))

   + NumToStr(nubar,0) + spaces(4)

   + FormatTime("HH:mm", datetime) + "h"));

arnie · Postby **arnie** » 12 Oct 2014

arnie,
if you use it only in the scanner you could use 5 plots, one for each text.

Thanks SP.

Only now I noticed I can show each plot separately without having to plot several times the same study per cell.

Shame on me

robby40 · Postby **robby40** » 12 Oct 2014

Or you code like this
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input: pct (14.5), ytvol (21563), tvol (156874), nubar (45); Plot1((NumToStr(pct,1) + "%" + spaces(10-StrLen(NumToStr(ytvol,0) )) + NumToStr(ytvol,0) + spaces(10-StrLen(NumToStr(tvol,0) )) + NumToStr(tvol,0) + spaces(8-StrLen(NumToStr(nubar,0) )) + NumToStr(nubar,0) + spaces(4) + FormatTime("HH:mm", datetime) + "h"));

I also did not know you could do that. Nice tip/trick. Thanks SP.

TJ · Postby TJ » 12 Oct 2014

ps. the benefit of plotting them separately is, you can selectively change the background color of individual plots as enhanced visual alerts.

eg.

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if CLOSE > CLOSE[1] then SetPlotBGColor( 10, green )

else SetPlotBGColor( 10, white );

arnie · Postby **arnie** » 12 Oct 2014

Why does our studies have a black background?
We can't change the theme this way.

Henry MultiСharts · Postby **Henry MultiСharts** » 13 Oct 2014

Why does our studies have a black background?
We can't change the theme this way.

This issue will be resolved in MultiCharts 9.0 Release 2.

arnie · Postby **arnie** » 13 Oct 2014

Is there a way to build a trend cell based on our own study?

Henry MultiСharts · Postby **Henry MultiСharts** » 14 Oct 2014

Is there a way to build a trend cell based on our own study?

arnie, there is no such option at the moment.

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