Thanks, Mike, that's a good workaround. Hopefully TJ will add native support in future release.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting. > > If you don't find a more obvious way, you could have your JScript get at > the value by having the OLE object first run a scan on an AFL script like > the following (untested, assumes scan on current symbol for last 1 bars): > > Buy = Sell = 0; > watchListNum = CategoryFind("My List Name", categoryWatchList); > > fh = fopen("c:\\temp\\listnum.txt", "w"); > > if (fh) { > fputs("" + watchListNum, fh); > fclose(fh); > } > > Then have your JScript read from the file to get your filter value before > running what you really wanted to run in the first place. > > Mike > > > --- In [email protected] <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com>, Mark Hike > <markh...@...> wrote: > > > > I am talking about OLE object for Analysis, not AFL. CategoryGetName() is > > not available in OLE. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:40 AM, bistoman73 <bistoma...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > you could find the actual number of the watchlist that you want to use > > > looking in all the watchlist (i=1 to 100 or 1000) and finding which one > has > > > the name, given by CategoryGetName( categoryWatchlist, i) , equal to > the one > > > you want > > > > > > hope it could help > > > > > > Bisto > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <amibroker%40yahoogroups.com><amibroker% > 40yahoogroups.com>, Mark Hike > > > <markhike@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > > > I am working to automate an exploration on a watchlist using JScript. > > > > It seems the OLD Analysis object only accept watchlist number as > filter, > > > not > > > > watchlist name. > > > > I only have the watchlist name and its index number can change any > time > > > > since I keep adding and deleting watchlists all the time. > > > > > > > > Is there any workaround to get the filter work with watchlist name? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > - Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
