Pixel Perfect Placement of Textboxes?

I've coded up a couple of indicators which place symbols or textboxes above/below pricebars. Because the text objects or symbol buffers are placed using a price, the appearance is rather sloppy. If I display the objects a couple of pips above/below the bar, it shows up fine for 5 minute charts but overlaps the pricebar on higher timeframes. Adding more pips means it displays better on the higher timeframes, but is off the screen on the intraday charts.

To complicate matters, when there's a larger range displayed on the screen, MetaTrader automatically adjusts pips per pixel causing sloppy display regardless of how much I've adjusted.

Is there a way to place a text object precisely x pixels above/below a pricebar or do I have to live with what I've got?

Hi tesla,

I am having similiar problems and have been playing with double WindowPriceMax(int index=0) and double WindowPriceMin(int index=0). This perhaps coulpled with double MarketInfo(string symbol,MODE_SPREAD) may yield effective management of placing arrows, text or labels on charts in relation to the autoresizing of the price scale. There has to be a simple equation that can normalize the placement of the above mentioned objects according to the autoresizing price scale. In the end the equation should compensate for timeframe change and zooming. Try the following code, as an indicator, to test returns when changing timeframes and/or zooming on the above mentioned functions:

#property indicator_chart_window
int start()
{
Print(WindowPriceMax(0));
Print(WindowPriceMin(0));
}


Regards,
lucidlamp

ps: If you've solved the problem already, I'd love to see a sample of the work.