[Tradewinds]

This is a quote from EasyLanguage Help:

This reserved word is used only within a PaintBar study, and enables you to paint the entire bar a specified color or paint the bar between two specified values.

I tried using this reserved word in an indicator to change the color of a price bar, and got the error msg:

This word can only be used in a PaintBar study

I guess I would need to recreate the main part of my code inside a PaintBar study in order to paint the bar. So I'd have the code for the same study running twice. Once for the lower study, and once to paint the bar. Hopefully EasyLanguage will consolidate everything into one and just have indicators.

[Tams]

Originally Posted by Tradewinds »

This is a quote from EasyLanguage Help:



I tried using this reserved word in an indicator to change the color of a price bar, and got the error msg:



I guess I would need to recreate the main part of my code inside a PaintBar study in order to paint the bar. So I'd have the code for the same study running twice. Once for the lower study, and once to paint the bar. Hopefully EasyLanguage will consolidate everything into one and just have indicators.

you can use PLOT instead of PaintBar.
makes things simpler and easier.

[Tradewinds]

Originally Posted by Tams »

you can use PLOT instead of PaintBar.
makes things simpler and easier.

Yes, that would work, but I have a lower study that plots in subgraph 1, and I want to change the bars in the main chart. The plots will appear in the lower study. I can't have plots from the same study appear in both the subgraph and the main chart. Not that I know of. I can have a lower study, and plot TEXT in the upper study, which is helpful. I guess I would need to recreate the lower study a second time, then use that to paint the bars. I could create functions that help drive both studies so I'm not creating the same study code twice.

[Tams]

this is what I do...

use the one set of logics,
and 2 different types of plots.

I can then apply the indicator twice in the same chart.

eg.

input:
chart(1);   // set to chart 1 or chart 2

if chart = 1 then
begin
     // set plots for main chart
end
else
begin
     // set plots for subchart
end;