Thread: Formatting multiple text titles

  1. 03-05-2019 #1
    NeilC22
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    Formatting multiple text titles

    Hello forum,


    I’ve been tinkering around with a program written to run on mt4 (metatrader 4) which is based on C.


    I’m trying to change the format of a few titles i.e. “Position X”, “Position Y” and “Position Z”, but can only get it to work changing the format of one title (Position X) as follows:

    Code:
    void Display(string text)
 {
   string lab_str="EA-"+IntegerToString(DisplayCount);
   double ofset=0;

   string _str="";
   if (StringFind(text,"Position X",0)>=0)
   {
   ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName+" Bold",clrYellow);
   }else ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName,colour);   
  }

    Any thoughts as to how i can add “Position Y” and “Position Z” to the above so that they format the same please?
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    So

    if (StringFind(text,"Position Y",0)>=0)

    Doesn't work?

    What debug can you add to track the value of the text input parameter?
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    Yes, substituting "Position Y" for "Position X" in the original code works but how would I combine all so that X, Y and Z are all formatted within the code?
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    *shrug*
    Code:
       if (StringFind(text,"Position X",0)>=0)
   {
      ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName+" Bold",clrYellow);
   }
   else if (StringFind(text,"Position Y",0)>=0)
   {
      ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName+" Bold",clrYellow);
   }
   else if (StringFind(text,"Position Z",0)>=0)
   {
      ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName+" Bold",clrYellow);
   }
   else
      ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName,colour);
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  5. 03-07-2019 #5
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    Hello Salem, thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that straight forward as tried this method and it still doesn't work as in doesn't load.
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    > it still doesn't work as in doesn't load.
    What does that mean?

    Do you get error messages from some verification / compilation step?

    Another way.
    Code:
    if (StringFind(text,"Position X",0)>=0 ||
    StringFind(text,"Position Y",0)>=0 ||
    StringFind(text,"Position Z",0)>=0)
{
   ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName+" Bold",clrYellow);
}
else
   ObjectSetText(lab_str,text,fontSise,fontName,colour);
    > I’ve been tinkering around with a program written to run on mt4 (metatrader 4) which is based on C.
    There are a lot of things based on C (or took some inspiration).
    List of C-family programming languages - Wikipedia

    Do you have a language reference we could look at?

    I notice that you posted on the C# forum.
    A language who's only relationship to C and C++ is in the choice of alphabet letter for it's name.
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