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  • #61
  • Edited 6:43pm May 25, 2020 7:53am | Edited 6:43pm
Major update to the Drawing Toolbox indicator to version 1.10

Changelog
New: New toggle for Show trade levels (can be turned on/off - also a keyboard shortcut can be set for that - default: "H")
New: Added price label option to the 4 trendlines - price label possible are 1) No price label 2) price label text only 3) price label text with background
New: Added SoundAlert option (beside PopupAlert and SendtoPhone)
New: New look for the toggles "fib1", "fib2", "toggle object description", "delete all drawn objects" and "delete all drawn fibo objects" (these are now "icons" - the fonts "Webdings" and "Wingdings 3" are required for that so I attach it here if you haven't installed that fonts until now)
New: The two "Draw Fib" toggles in the panel (which were named "Fib1" and "Fib2") can be turned on/off now (off = "Fib1" and "Fib2" icons are not shown in the panel anymore - but still can be used when you set a keyboard shortcut for it for example)
Change: Fib buttons (which appears after "E" press or when adding a fib through the panel) takes the chart foreground /chart background colors (so they look hopefully coherent on every chart template color) - "Show trade levels" and "Toggle object description" icons take also the chart foreground color automatically.
Change: The toggle icons for "toggle object description", "delete all drawn objects" and "delete all drawn fibo objects" are only there if at least one object was drawn through the panel - if you click the "delete all drawn objects" icon or you delete the last drawn object from the chart (manually or through X hotkey for example) these icons disappear again until you draw at least one new object through the panel / the "delete all drawn fibo objects" icon for example is only there if a fib objects is there on the chart)

Update: Added an animated screenshot (gif) which shows most functions of the panel - the drawn objects are mostly inserted using keyboard shortcuts (in this example I used the default shortcuts "A"/"B" (rectangles) and "T"/"Z" (trendlines) and "E" (to bring up the fib tool/buttons again).
(the green dashed line for the buy limit order is unfortunately difficult to recognize because of the gif rendering)
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  • #62
  • Edited May 26, 2020 2:15am May 25, 2020 5:07pm | Edited May 26, 2020 2:15am
Quoting Jagg
Yes, that's because I only changed some eyecandy things to that indicator. I didn't changed the way the original author has coded it. But using system dll isn't really needed anymore for such functions the indicator uses so when I have a few minutes I will post an update which doesn't need dll activated anymore.
Ok, here is the promised update of the timeframe_zoom_per_chart indicator (Version now v1.3j).

Changelog

Changed: Activating DLL not needed anymore
New: Added a new button for Toggle on/off Chart ScaleFix (optional) - if ScaleFix is acitve two new buttons appear [+] and [-] to change the fixed max/min values (click the attached screenshot for an animation - gif)

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  • #63
  • May 25, 2020 5:41pm May 25, 2020 5:41pm
Quoting Jagg
Major update to the Drawing Toolbox indicator to version 1.10
Fantastic work!
Thanks ...
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  • #64
  • May 27, 2020 7:59am May 27, 2020 7:59am
Quoting Jagg
Major update to the Drawing Toolbox indicator to version 1.10 Changelog New: New toggle for Show trade levels (can be turned on/off - also a keyboard shortcut can be set for that - default: "H") New: Added price label option to the 4 trendlines - price label possible are 1) No price label 2) price label text only 3) price label text with background New: Added SoundAlert option (beside PopupAlert and SendtoPhone) New: New look for the toggles "fib1", "fib2", "toggle object description", "delete all drawn objects" and "delete all drawn fibo objects"...
hello jagg,awesome tools you have here...its great..
im still trying to change the icon..but nothing..
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  • #65
  • May 27, 2020 9:09am May 27, 2020 9:09am
Quoting jesxrussel
{quote} hello jagg,awesome tools you have here...its great.. im still trying to change the icon..but nothing.. {image}
its ok jagg..probelm solve...fantastic tools!!thank you
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  • #66
  • May 27, 2020 9:19am May 27, 2020 9:19am
Quoting Jagg
Major update to the Drawing Toolbox indicator to version 1.10
Hi Jagg,

Definitely some improvements made.

On the Trendlines tool, I can now add Price labels with background and alerts. Great stuff.

Some issues:
Trendline extension varies from timeframe to timeframe. Should extend to the right hand side of chart by about 5 bars into the future, regardless of where the TL is placed.

Placement of TL( horizontal only) should be able to drag left node and place accurately on chart and line automatically extend and becomes horizontal from
that point.

Cannot copy TL's (with price label & alert) by dragging centre node whilst holding down CTRL
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  • #67
  • May 27, 2020 11:27am May 27, 2020 11:27am
Quoting Shabs19
Some issues: Trendline extension varies from timeframe to timeframe. Should extend to the right hand side of chart by about 5 bars into the future, regardless of where the TL is placed.
I've set "Extend right X bars to future" setting in the indicator to "3" (default).
And my 1. and 2. trendline is set to extend=true and straighten=true => see the gif attached I've drawn a few trendlines - everyone is exactly 3 bars wider to the right than bar 0. I zoomed in and out - trendline is always 3 bars wider than bar 0 on any zoom level.

update: Ok, I think I know what you mean now... my panel "extend objects only" (if they are shorter than bar 0/3) but don't "cut it" back!!! (will think about changing that - thanks)

Quoting Shabs19
Placement of TL( horizontal only) should be able to drag left node and place accurately on chart and line automatically extend and becomes horizontal from that point.
This is the case!!? See animated gif at beginning where I've done that.

Quoting Shabs19
Cannot copy TL's (with price label & alert) by dragging centre node whilst holding down CTRL
Yes - because drawing the price label, extend or not etc etc requires the accordingly object_name (with the correct object prefix from my indicator). When you copy a drawn trendline from my panel for example with the standard mt4 way (holding ctrl and drag) this new/copied trendline gets always "Trendline 12xy" as object name and my panel doesn't care of any object in the chart which hasn't my used object_prefix.

But why do you want to copy a drawn object from panel? Set keyboard hotkeys and you can draw new objects in milliseconds. See the animated gif - at the end I've drawn many consecutive blue trendlines with simply click "T" - move my mouse to next chart region - "T" - move mouse - "T" and so on. This is faster than copy object, isn't it?

Info: In the gif animation you see a planned new "toggle alert on/off" feature (bell icon) - you don't have that feature in the downloadable version yet)
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  • #68
  • Edited 4:26pm May 27, 2020 3:56pm | Edited 4:26pm
Quoting Jagg
{quote} Info: In the gif animation you see a planned new "toggle alert on/off" feature (bell icon) - you don't have that feature in the downloadable version yet) {image}
Manually drawing TL's with the toolbox icon doesn't flatten TL unless you follow with another TL. However drawing using the shortcut T & Z works best.
Didn't notice that feature. Also solves the copy TL issue. Thanks.

One issue I have noticed now, which I didn't notice before, Drawing TL on a higher timeframe is fine with price label & background. Now, if I go to lower TF's the price label with background disappears altogether, the TL is still there with the object visible TF descriptions. BUt not the Price labels, and happens on all TL's drawn.

A small thing, the icons with the money bag, info & delete cross are not appearing in line with the other tools, as you have shown on your charts.
Is this a small bug ?

I know, you can remove the object descriptions by toggle feature, is it possible to shorten description to just the TF, the TL was drawn on ?

Looking forward to the next release with Alarm toggle feature. Thanks.
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  • #69
  • Edited 6:00pm May 27, 2020 5:46pm | Edited 6:00pm
Quoting Shabs19
Manually drawing TL's with the toolbox icon doesn't flatten TL unless you follow with another TL.
Sorry, don't understand that. A trendline will only be "flatten" (I hope you mean straighten here?!) when you set that trendline accordingly (marked that with a blue circle in the screenshot - you have to set this for all 4 trendlines to YES when you want all 4 trendlines to be straighten)

Quoting Shabs19
However drawing using the shortcut T & Z works best. Didn't notice that feature. Also solves the copy TL issue. Thanks.
Ok, good. T and Z are only default values I've set for Trendline1 and Trendline2 (3 and 4 have no keyboard shortcut per default). You can set/change all these keyboard shortcuts in the indicator settings!

Quoting Shabs19
One issue I have noticed now, which I didn't notice before, Drawing TL on a higher timeframe is fine with price label & background. Now, if I go to lower TF's the price label with background disappears altogether, the TL is still there with the object visible TF descriptions. BUt not the Price labels, and happens on all TL's drawn.
These labels are still there but due to the behaviour mentioned in prev. post (indicator did NOT cut a line - only extend) you didn't see the labels because they were way in the future (outside the visible area) when you come from a higher TF and switch to a smaller one - but test new version v1.11 please - I've changed that so a trendline should now also be cutted (so it ends always to the set x bars right to bar 0)

Quoting Shabs19
A small thing, the icons with the money bag, info & delete cross are not appearing in line with the other tools, as you have shown on your charts. Is this a small bug ?
Could be a resolution problem (font size) - can you show me a screenshot how it looks on your chart?

Quoting Shabs19
I know, you can remove the object descriptions by toggle feature, is it possible to shorten description to just the TF, the TL was drawn on ?
Have you looked through all of the indicators settings ?
Change "Show object on?" setting (again - this can be set for every of the 4 trendlines separately)

Quoting Shabs19
Looking forward to the next release with Alarm toggle feature. Thanks.
v1.11 attached with that feature (beta!)
1) by selecting a trendline a bell icon (in the trendline color) should be shown
2) when you click that bell icon you activate the alert feature for that trendline (the bell icon color switches to yellow/gold)
(clicking again on a golden/activated bell icon will delete the alert feature for that trendline again)
3) clicking on any free region in a chart will hide that bell icon again
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  • #70
  • May 28, 2020 5:48am May 28, 2020 5:48am
Quoting Jagg
{quote} Sorry, don't understand that. A trendline will only be "flatten" (I hope you mean straighten here?!) when you set that trendline accordingly (marked that with a blue circle in the screenshot - you have to set this for all 4 trendlines to YES when you want all 4 trendlines to be straighten) {quote} Ok, good. T and Z are only default values I've set for Trendline1 and Trendline2 (3 and 4 have no keyboard shortcut per default). You can set/change all these keyboard shortcuts in the indicator settings!
I have realised the straighten feature works well with drawing the TL by applying the TL with the shortcut T & Z

Quoting Jagg
{quote} Could be a resolution problem (font size) - can you show me a screenshot how it looks on your chart?
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Quoting Jagg
{quote} Have you looked through all of the indicators settings ? Change "Show object on?" setting (again - this can be set for every of the 4 trendlines separately)
If I do that, then the TL does not show on any lower TF's. If we can retain the TL with the relevant TF symbol that it was drawn on, or just the highest TF label only. All other visible TF's clutter the chart.

Quoting Jagg
{quote} v1.11 attached with that feature (beta!) 1) by selecting a trendline a bell icon (in the trendline color) should be shown 2) when you click that bell icon you activate the alert feature for that trendline (the bell icon color switches to yellow/gold) (clicking again on a golden/activated bell icon will delete the alert feature for that trendline again) 3) clicking on any free region in a chart will hide that bell icon again {image} {file}
Thanks for the update, will test it out later on today
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  • #71
  • Edited 6:36am May 28, 2020 6:23am | Edited 6:36am
[quote=Jagg;12967389]{quote} These labels are still there but due to the behaviour mentioned in prev. post (indicator did NOT cut a line - only extend) you didn't see the labels because they were way in the future (outside the visible area) when you come from a higher TF and switch to a smaller one - but test new version v1.11 please - I've changed that so a trendline should now also be cutted (so it ends always to the set x bars right to bar 0) /quote]

I have checked this now on a blank chart, it works well.
Sometimes other indicators with a poorly coded "Delete all" function can also do this.

Thanks.

Edit: The delete feature "X" still seems to delete all lines & text, not the last drawn ?
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  • #72
  • May 28, 2020 6:59am May 28, 2020 6:59am
Quoting Shabs19
The delete feature "X" still seems to delete all lines & text, not the last drawn ?
The button/icon "X" (not the "Fx") deletes ALL drawn objects from the panel.
For deleting only the last drawn object there is no icon!!! You can set (only) a keyboard shortcut for that - and this is key "X" per default.

So you click the x icon => everything gets deleted
You press the letter X on your keyboard => only the last drawn object gets deleted

Quoting Shabs19
If I do that, then the TL does not show on any lower TF's. If we can retain the TL with the relevant TF symbol that it was drawn on, or just the highest TF label only. All other visible TF's clutter the chart.
I'll check that and add a further option for you eventually...

Thanks for the screenshot - yes - definitly a bug
(I've tested only with corner_left_lower the last weeks)
  • #73
  • May 28, 2020 7:25am May 28, 2020 7:25am
Quoting Jagg
{quote} The button/icon "X" (not the "Fx") deletes ALL drawn objects from the panel. For deleting only the last drawn object there is no icon!!! You can set (only) a keyboard shortcut for that - and this is key "X" per default. So you click the x icon => everything gets deleted You press the letter X on your keyboard => only the last drawn object gets deleted {quote} I'll check that and add a further option for you eventually... Thanks for the screenshot - yes - definitly a bug (I've tested only with corner_left_lower the last weeks)
My Bad, sorry for the confusion.

I have an indicator that I have isolated that caused the "Price with Background" objects to get deleted when changing timeframes, It did not delete the same labels with the previous Color Levels Custom_Tom. If you could take a look at the code to rectify itwhen you have time please. I know it is in the "DeleteAll" function somewhere. Indicator attached below:

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  • #74
  • May 28, 2020 8:16am May 28, 2020 8:16am
Quoting Jagg
v1.11 attached with that feature (beta!) 1)
Hi Jagg

just a suggestion, can you please include the version number in the file iteself.. it will avoid confusion for many

like
Drawing Toolbox 1.11.ex4

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  • #75
  • May 28, 2020 8:53am May 28, 2020 8:53am
Quoting tincog
{quote} Hi Jagg just a suggestion, can you please include the version number in the file iteself.. it will avoid confusion for many like Drawing Toolbox 1.11.ex4 Cheers tin
I avoited that because if I do that you always have to delete the indicator from the chart, load the newly named indicator file to the chart, set/load your preferences again and so on... And as you see there are quite a few new indicator versions posted lately

You can check the version number in first tab of the indicator.

Because of the heavy amount of new versions all the posted Drawing Toolbox files have an expiration date in it (4 months) - amongst other things this way all the screwed up/bugged early versions can't be used anymore after a while.
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  • #76
  • May 28, 2020 9:55am May 28, 2020 9:55am
Quoting Jagg
{quote} I avoited that because if I do that you always have to delete the indicator from the chart, load the newly named indicator file to the chart, set/load your preferences again and so on... And as you see there are quite a few new indicator versions posted lately You can check the version number in first tab of the indicator. Because of the heavy amount of new versions all the posted Drawing Toolbox files have an expiration date in it (4 months) - amongst other things this way all the screwed up/bugged early versions can't be used anymore...
Will you extend the expiration date for Free or are you planning to sell this tool in future, just asking ?

Thanks.
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  • #77
  • Edited 5:35pm May 28, 2020 9:59am | Edited 5:35pm
Quoting Shabs19
{quote} Will you extend the expiration date for Free or are you planning to sell this tool in future, just asking ? Thanks.
for sure - no plans to sell anything (as said there are many many versions posted lately - which surely have bugs in it - this is more or less the only way that users "are forced" to use the latest version - I hope there will be a nearly "bug free" version in the future which could have a way higher expiration date - let's see
  • #78
  • May 28, 2020 10:22am May 28, 2020 10:22am
Quoting Jagg
{quote} for sure - no plans to sell anything (as said there are many many versions posted lately - which surely has bugs in it - this is more or less the only way that users "are forced" to use the latest version - I hope there will be a nearly "bug free" version in the future which could have a way higher expiration date - let's see
Thanks for this tool, really appreciate what you are doing.

If you could take at a look at the MTF Hi Low indicator and clear the DeleteAll issue.
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...4#post12968554
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  • #79
  • May 28, 2020 10:29am May 28, 2020 10:29am
Quoting Shabs19
{quote} Thanks for this tool, really appreciate what you are doing. If you could take at a look at the MTF Hi Low indicator and clear the DeleteAll issue. https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...4#post12968554
...but my Drawing Toolbox has also a small glitch regarding the pricelabel (the object visibility isn't set correctly) - so stay tuned for an update here as well
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  • #80
  • May 28, 2020 10:38am May 28, 2020 10:38am
Quoting Jagg
{quote} ...but my Drawing Toolbox has also a small glitch regarding the pricelabel (the object visibility isn't set correctly) - so stay tuned for an update here as well {file}
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