'Say' function is designed to be doing one thing: speaking out loud user-specified text (unconditionally).
My experience shows that functions that do more than one thing and do "housekeeping" on their own tend to be very difficult to understand by the users (see AlertIf case - it does housekeeping and repeatition prevention, yet no one seems to understand it). So it is better to keep rule - one function does one thing. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Biran To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 3:26 AM Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: using say("text") (AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA released ) Thanks, I will try it later this weekend. This seems like a lot of housekeeping for a function that would normally be required only ONCE ! (I can't envision an application that needs repeating unless I used it for an emergency (say("Fire") ;) happy holidays Joseph Biran ____________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 3:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: using say("text") (AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA released ) You need to store any text to ouput in a staticvar and clear this variable after you output it, below is just one way of doing this. This will only Say() text when is has changed. You may have to change this when you need repetative messages, like pyramided trades that say Buy, Buy, Buy, ... Text = ParamStr("Enter text to synthesize","Test"); PrevText = StaticVarGetText("PrevText"); if( Text != PrevText ) { Say( Text ); StaticVarSetText("PrevText", text); } best regards, herman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Biran Sent: December 23, 2006 1:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: using say("text") (AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA released ) Thanks, I may be misunderstanding Flip but my guess is it should be the opposite, something like ExRem() to only sound message once on the first occurrence. but I am not even sure what to include in that statement as arrays. if condition say("my message"); I would like to be said only once (the first time condition is true) and only on the last bar (which I will take care of after I figure out how to restrict this event). Joseph Biran ____________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris DePuy Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: using say("text") (AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA released ) I haven't done this yet, but Flip function should work. ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Biran To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:02 PM Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: using say("text") (AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA released ) How does one use the say("text") function such that it is only stated once and does not repeat even if the condition that it depends on continues to be true? Joseph Biran ____________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > AmiBroker 4.89.0 BETA has just been released > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/2006/12/21/amibroker-4890-beta- released/ > > Happy Holiday Season! > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com
