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Text SetLocation

231 bytes added, 12:42, 13 February 2012
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Reverted edits by 176.8.90.7 (talk) to last revision by JoshM
Modifies the location of a text object with the specified ID number; . Text_SetLocation returns a value of 0 if the location of the object was successfully modified, and a value of -2 if the specified object ID number is invalid.
==== Usage ====
<syntaxhighlight>Text_SetLocation (ObjectID, BarDate, BarTime, PriceValue)</syntaxhighlight>
==== Parameters ==== [[:'''ObjectID]] ''' - a numerical expression specifying the object ID number .
[[:'''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 .
==== Notes ==== * An object-specific ID number is returned by [[Text_New]] when the text object is created. * Use [[Text_SetLocation_s]] to modify the location of a text object with seconds precision.* Use [[Text_GetTime]], [[Text_GetTime_s]] and [[Text_GetDate]] to get the location of a specific text object. ==== Example ====
Move the text object with an ID number of 3 to the top of the current bar:
<syntaxhighlight>Value1=Text_SetLocation(3,Date,Time,High);</syntaxhighlight>
[[Category:Text Drawing]]