Date and time for drawtext

Goeran · 2017-06-02T11:18:27+00:00

Hi. Hope someone can understand and maybe help me I have made an simple indicator who shows the highs and low in a chart. I use “drawtext “to write date or time for the highs and lows The problem is I don’t find the right code for time and date. For time I would like to show hhmm as 09.00, 10.20 and so on. Not only 9 or 10.2. And for date as 04 May, 10 April and so on. For date I have wrote as this a=(opendate[2]/1000) DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+4, dialog,bold,12) This not work good Shows on the screen like this 20,170.523 and for time as this a=OpenTime[2]/10000 DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+0.5, dialog,Bold,12) Time is ok but can be better. /Goeran

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06/02/2017 at 12:18 PM #37285 quote

Goeran
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Hi. Hope someone can understand and maybe help me

I have made an simple indicator who shows the highs and low in a chart.

I use “drawtext “to write date or time for the highs and lows

The problem is I don’t find the right code for time and date. For time I would like to show hhmm as 09.00, 10.20 and so on. Not only 9 or 10.2.

And for date as 04 May, 10 April and so on. For date I have wrote as this

a=(opendate[2]/1000)
DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+4, dialog,bold,12) This not work good Shows on the screen like this 20,170.523

and for time as this
a=OpenTime[2]/10000
DRAWTEXT(“#a#”, BarIndex[2], high[2]+0.5, dialog,Bold,12) Time is ok but can be better.

/Goeran

06/02/2017 at 7:23 PM #37317 quote

Nicolas
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Variables can’t store strings. So you’ll always get numbers for months for example. Unless you make a conditional statement for each month : if month=4 then DRAWTEXT (“April”, …)

Why not use Day + Month + Year to write the date instead of OpenDate? Same for OpenTime, you could use Hour + Minute instead.

05/10/2024 at 1:15 PM #232526 quote
repropel
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Junior
Hi Nicolas,

Could you help me with a problem similar to the previous one. In version 12 of the platform, the M appears and I cannot know what date it is.

Mi código es el siguiente:
```
DayN = Date[N]

DRAWTEXT("Fecha: #DayN#",barindex,17,Dialog,Italic,10)
```
Thank you so much.

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05/10/2024 at 3:07 PM #232533 quote
robertogozzi
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M stands for MILLIONS, date 20240510 is a number over 20M and is displayed as such.

You need to decompose it into Day, Month, Year, then using the 3 separate values with DRAWTEXT:
```
IF (OpenDayOfWeek <> OpenDayOfWeek[1]) AND (OpenDayOfWeek = 2) THEN
   myDAY   = OpenDay
   myMONTH = OpenMonth
   myYEAR  = OpenYear
   Drawtext("D:#myDAY#-#myMONTH#-#myYEAR#",BarIndex,highest[20](high) + range)
ENDIF
RETURN
```
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05/10/2024 at 9:14 PM #232542 quote

repropel
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Junior

Hi Roberto,

This way of visualizing the date has been very useful to me.

Thank you so much.

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