Change font in expert commentary window

Kaos · Postby **Kaos** » 24 Apr 2020

Hi all,

How do I code html inside my indicator so I can set the Expert Commentary window to have font = Courier New

eg:
Commentary("Long Entry = " + numtostr(1356.2,"1) + "" + Newline);
I would like that line in ExpertCommentary window be be in Courier New format

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I have done some homework but still can't figure it out

I can set the font on the chart textbox using Text_SetFontName (Text_Object,"Courier New");
but I need to change the Expert Commentary window as well

I went to this post and changed the internet explorer option so I can change the font size.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19389&p=70976&hilit ... ont#p70976

JoshM · Postby **JoshM** » 24 Apr 2020

I would like that line in ExpertCommentary window be be in Courier New format

Any easy way to do that is probably with the `` HTML element, since that one is for formatting/styling text. To do so, you'd use a `style` attribute with ``.

For instance, this piece of HTML code makes the text bold:

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hello!

Here is more information on `` and here there's a lot more information on styling text in HTML.

But now to answer your actual question. Here's an example:

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Variables:
	formatStart(""),
	message(""),
	formatEnd("");

formatStart = "<span style='font-family: Courier New, monospace; font-size: 20px;'>";
message = "Bar close at " + NumToStr(Close, 1);
formatEnd = "</span>";

Commentary(formatStart + message + formatEnd);

This code wraps the message inside the start and and tag of HTML's `` element. That element's style uses `font-family` to get Courier New, and with `font-size` we make the text bigger.

Here's how that looks in the Expert Commentary:

Kaos · Postby **Kaos** » 27 Apr 2020

Hi Josh,

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I have implemented it and it works great except for 1 small issue.

In the textbox on the chart I can use multiple spaces to "pad" out the information to make it look like a table

The problem is the multiple spaces do not show up in the Expert Commentary window

Do you know what I might be missing please?

Here is my original code

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Commentary(""+newline);

Commentary("using multiple spaces works in Textbox" + newline+newline);				
Text_String = "" + newline + 
"Buy      @ "+NumToStr(L_Entry,Decimalz)+"" + newline + 
"StopLoss @ "+NumToStr(L_FirstStop,Decimalz)+"" + newline + 
"----------------" + newline +  
"Target   @ "+NumToStr(L_Target,Decimalz)+"" + newline ;  


formatStart = "<span style='font-family: Courier New, monospace; font-size:" + numtostr(ecSize,0) + "px;'>";
formatEnd = "</span>";
				
Message = "Expert Commentary window problem when using multiple spaces" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long Entry    = "+NumToStr(L_Entry,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long StopLoss = "+NumToStr(L_FirstStop,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Trade Risk    = "+NumToStr(L_Risk,Decimalz)+" pts"  + newline +newline;


Message = Message + "Replace multiple spaces with dot works but doesn't look the best" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long Entry....= "+NumToStr(L_Entry,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long StopLoss.= "+NumToStr(L_FirstStop,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Trade Risk....= "+NumToStr(L_Risk,Decimalz)+" pts" + newline;

Message = Message + "Replace multiple spaces with underscores works but doesn't look the best" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long Entry____= "+NumToStr(L_Entry,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Long StopLoss_= "+NumToStr(L_FirstStop,Decimalz)+"" + newline;
Message = Message + "Trade Risk____= "+NumToStr(L_Risk,Decimalz)+" pts" + newline;

Commentary(formatStart + message + formatEnd + newline);

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I had a look at this website
https://crunchify.com/basic-html-how-do ... e-in-html/
to try and do it myself but I couldn't get it to work.

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Also an update for anyone else
You can't use the Internet Explorer fix I linked to earlier if you want to use the hello! idea
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19389&p=70976&hilit ... ont#p70976

JoshM · Postby **JoshM** » 27 Apr 2020

The problem is the multiple spaces do not show up in the Expert Commentary window.

If you use multiple ` ` symbols in the text, one for each space, it should work properly. It's a bit annoying (and ugly), but you have to swap the ' ' (space) for ` ` in the sentence. That way it should work!

Here's what I got:

The code used:

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Variables:
	formatStart(""),
	message(""),
	formatEnd("");

formatStart = "<span style='font-family: Courier New, monospace;font-size: 20px;'>";
message = "H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;e&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;l&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;l&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;!";
formatEnd = "</span>";

Commentary(formatStart + message + formatEnd);

Anna MultiCharts · Postby **Anna MultiCharts** » 28 Apr 2020

Hello Kaos,

You can refer to HTML help, e.g: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ndamentals

Our engineers have prepared a code example for you. The result of it is as shown in the screenshot.

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var:
font_ita  ("<span style='font-family: ; font-size:; font-style: italic;'>"),
font_nrm  ("<span style='font-family: ; font-size; font-style: normal;'>"),

font_size20 ("<span style='font-family: ; font-size:20px; font-style: ;'>"),
font_size10 ("<span style='font-family: ; font-size:10px; font-style: ;'>"),

font_family_Courier_New ("<span style='font-family: Courier New; font-size:; font-style: ;'>"),
font_family_Arial       ("<span style='font-family: Arial; font-size:; font-style: ;'>"),

preformatted_text_begin ("<pre>"),
preformatted_text_end  ("</pre>");


Commentarycl("t   e   s   t   1");
Commentarycl(preformatted_text_begin);
Commentarycl("t   e   s   t   2");
Commentarycl(font_ita);
Commentarycl("t   e   s   t   3");
Commentarycl(font_size20);
Commentarycl("t   e   s   t   4");

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Kaos · Postby **Kaos** » 28 Apr 2020

Just wanted to say thanks to Josh and Anna for all the help. I really appreciate it.

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