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Text New

204 bytes added, 08:22, 9 February 2012
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Displays a text object, consisting of the specified string expression located at the specified bar and specified price value, on the chart that the study is based on; . Text_New returns an object-specific ID number, required to (further) modify the object.
==== Usage ====<syntaxhighlight>Text_New (BarDate, BarTime, PriceValue,"Text")</syntaxhighlight>
==== Parameters ==== [[:'''BarDate]] ''' - a numerical expression specifying the date of the bar at which the object is to be placed; the date is indicated in the ''YYYMMdd '' format, where YYY is the number of years since 1900, MM is the month, and dd is the day of the month .
[[:'''BarTime]] ''' - a numerical expression specifying the time of the bar at which the object is to be placed; the time is indicated in the 24-hour ''HHmm '' format, where 1300 = 1:00 PM .
[[:'''PriceValue]] ''' - a numerical expression specifying the price value (vertical position, corresponding to a value on the price scale of a chart), where the object is to be placed .
[[:'''Text]] ''' - the string expression to be displayed .
==Notes == Example * Use [[Text_New_s]] to place text on a price chart with seconds precision.* Use [[Text_New_self]] and [[Text_New_self_s]] to place text on a SubChart. ==Example ==
Place, on the chart that the study is based on, the text "UpT" at the top of a bar if the Open price has increased incrementally over the last three bars:
<syntaxhighlight>If Open>Open[1] And Open[1]>Open[2] Then Value1=Text_New(Date,Time,High,"UpT");</syntaxhighlight>
[[Category:Text Drawing]]

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