Text over box on News indicator

Hi Friends

I'm still learning to code and have a maybe simple problem with the FFcal indi coded by Dirk Wehler (the THV3 before the name is only to find it faster in the MT4 navigator).

I coded it to have it in windows other than the mainwindow because the indicator clutters the chart, especially when the candles cross it.

Now I coded a box (will need later two but that's not the issue for now) to hide other indi lines and give priority to the News text but some get hidden and others are just fine.

Can someone please help me to know why the text gets hidden?

It wouldn't help me if you just do the job, I would like to learn how to hide or support text and lines.

Thanks a lot in advance and have a basket full of pips.

BTW: I could consult my THV Team coders but I thought it might be in general interest.

Hi Cobra,

My guess is that it has to do with the "Draw object in background" property of those objects.

You can try setting this for all news text objects to bring them up to the foreground and try also to load the news indicator last for that window.

e.g. ObjectSet("Impact", OBJPROP_BACK, false);

Hope this works.

Cheers,
CaveMan

Thanks Caveman, I'll try that, but did it before with other text objects (other indi) without success, maybe in the FFcal it works.

En general, if I code the box and after that the text, would that help or doesn't matter? I mean is there a sequency in the codes? First comes up first, second overwrites first?

Hi Cobra,

I am making some assumptions here.. I presume you wanted this in a lower window and that you wanted a colored box backround.

The initial fix is easy, if you look at what you coded it will pop eventually... But you will have some additional problems to take care of. You will need to put in parameters for the box size so all info will fit in it, also the the x and y axis is just for the box itself. so you will need to tie that into all the text settings, else you will just move the box but the text will stay where it is.

While I will not say what your fix is, unless you want me to of course.. Here is a hint, what you have done so far is put a curtain over the window.. The info is there but the curtain is closed so you can not see inside. Look at what you wrote and then find the line that is the curtain..I think you will see the light.. fix that and then you can work on the rest.
It is nice to see that you want to do this instead of using your team..

Happy Trading
Tom

Hi Cobra,

I misunderstood what you were trying to do.

Here's the solution. Set the name of "NewsBox" to "aNewsBox". This will bring the "aNewsBox" object right to the top of the object listing and the rest of the labels will appear after the "aNewsBox" label. This will ensure that the rest of the labels will appear as floating on top of "aNewsBox" label.

I have made changes in the file and also increased the size of the label to cover the complete news area.

That is the way MT4 manage objects - in alphabetical order.

Hope this helps ...

Cheers,
CaveMan

Great, thanks a lot Caveman.

That's what I meant with sequency in the codes.

Now I learned something that had me busy since times.

Hi Cobra,

I also must apologize also as I did not fully read the original request, even though you spelled it out... Holiday rush I suppose. My way brought your text forward but kept the box still as a background.
I have fixed your final problem for you and tied the text to the box. So all will move together now.
I did add two user features, one is to set the box to the background which will allow the main indicator to show over the text. Reverse of what you wanted but there may be someone who likes that so why not give them the option. It is a true or false setting.
The second is a user feature to adjust the box size.. while Caveman did an internal size, what you will find is that when you increase the text size you will need to increase the box size also.
You may want in the future to actually mary the box and text so the box will auto adjust with the text font setting.
Last I put internal line notes, I will leave it to you if you want external notes to explain settings.
I also moved the box settings to the top with the other variables, just keeps it neat that way.

Now in the interest of teaching I will not say what I changed I will leave it to you to find them as that is how you will learn.. I have included the code so you can cheat if you want.

Keep up the good work in your thread, one of these days I have to read the whole thing... can't tell you how many times I started and get sidetracked... But anyway I have learned and just wanted to say thanks.

Happy Trading
Tom