Showing bid price on screen

Hi there

I am trying to write something and I am being frustrated.
So I am trying to see at all time what the bid price is that my EA has it at and to display it on the screen.

I have used the following line to show it in the alert window

While(true)
{
Price_1 = Bid;
Alert("What is price now: ",Price_1);
Alert("What is bid now: ",Bid);
sleep (1000);
}

but all I get is the first bid price when I start the script, and then the price does not change even though on the chart the price moves up and down.

Can someone help with this please...

Maybe if someone can just write a small script that will show the bid price on the screen as it changes... can not be that difficult if you know what you are doing....

Purple Heart,
I do not think doing what you want will work as an alert function. You would be better to put this as an indicator or if your ea has comments put it in there. Here is a something I wrote, not sure if this is what you are trying to do. This will show current ask and bid in a corner, maybe it will give you an idea on how to do what you want.

Thanks twj1usa.

That is almost exactly what I wanted, just had to change a few things but it gets the main job done!

This might help too....

Thanks Islander, much appreciated

I combined these 2 price indi's and made one for my notebook's smaller windows.