Rick changing a string to a number THAT'S COMING FROM AN ARRAY and after that changing a number to a string again, should give me the same array with the initial strings. But the fact that I can use IF after the string manipulation shows me that I am no longer having an array ... I still do not get this. Weird ...
Tomasz ???? Regards, Ton. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Osborn To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] impenetrable AFL First off let me repeat - this is not my original code. I found it in someone's code for TD Sequential (with apologies to the original coder - didn't keep your name) The Buysignal is a Flip(Buy,Sell) type - or could be a true/false item. Checking the help file the NunToStr says FUNCTION It is used to convert numeric value of NUMBER or ARRAY to string. Next the StrToNum function FUNCTION It is used to convert numeric value of NUMBER or ARRAY to string. So the combination of changing that value of the array from a number to a string and then "that string" back to "a number" (not an array) LastValue works the same but I still don't understand that function well enough. From the help file FUNCTION Returns last calculated value of the specified ARRAY. The result of this function can be used in place of a constant (NUMBER) in any function argument. If ARRAY is undefined (e.g., only 100-days loaded and you request the last value of a 200-day moving average) then the lastvalue function returns zero. Caveat: since this function fills an entire data array with the last value of another array, it allows a formula to look into the future. so if there are repeated events (buy signals and sell signals), I'm not sure if lastvalue sees any but the last one. Plus I worry about the Caveat!! Best Regards Rick Osborn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ton Sieverding <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, June 13, 2010 2:55:32 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] impenetrable AFL That's interesting code, Rick. Can you explain me why this works ? 1. First I assume BuySignal to be BUY. Therefore being an array. So IF should not work. Should be IIF. But even when I put there BUY to be sure it's an array, it does work. Why ? 2. What's the difference between StrToNum(NumtoStr( BUY)) and BUY ? Should give me the same result. But is does not. Without this trick I cannot use IF. What's going on here ???? Regards, Ton. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Osborn To: amibro...@yahoogrou ps.com Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] impenetrable AFL Yuki I have the following code which changes the background gradient color depending on whether a buy or sell signal is given. if(StrToNum(NumToStr(BuySignal)) ) bgColor = ColorRGB(0,66, 2); else bgColor = ColorRGB(66,2, 0); SetChartBkGradientF ill( colorBlack, bgColor); Perhaps you can change this to meet your needs Best Regards Rick Osborn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Yuki Taga <yukit...@tkh. att.ne.jp> To: amibro...@yahoogrou ps.com Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 1:24:58 AM Subject: [amibroker] impenetrable AFL Impenetrable! (At least to me.) xcolor = IIf(TSI >= SigLine, SetChartBkGradientF ill( ParamColor(" BgTop", ColorRGB( 172,172,172 )), ParamColor(" BgBottom" , ColorRGB( 172,172,172 ))), SetChartBkGradientF ill( ParamColor(" BgTop", ColorRGB(140, 140,140)) , ParamColor(" BgBottom" , ColorRGB(140, 140,140)) )); SetChartBkColor( SelectedValue( xcolor)); I tried that line above as SetChartBkGradientF ill(SelectedValu e(xcolor) ); but that produced a syntax error. I think you can see what I'm trying to do here. The idea is simple: change the background gradient depending on a true/false result. The gradients in this example are not the gradients I would actually use (in fact they are not gradients at all, as your intelligent eyes will quickly have seen). They are just test code to see if I can even make it work. I cannot. For one thing, the gradient does not change no matter the selected value. It's static. For another thing, the margin background goes to black, a hideous (although somewhat foreseen) result. Okay, what am I doing wrong, and where did I miss this in the docs? And what, if anything, can I do about this margin result? The only way I can change the *entire* background color is by not using a gradient??? (Using SetChartBkColor) How sad that would be! I can make that work, at least. But not with a gradient. Anything is possible in Amibroker, right? Wrong? Thanks, Yuki
