Text on High of a Candle

hi,

I'm quite sure someone of you know that.



1.
What is the correct way to calculate the text offset so that the bottom of the text matches the High of the Candle.

I would like my Font size be adjustable.

I use for the text below a candle: the Candle Low[i] which works quite fine

But for the once where the text is above - I'm not sure how to calculate it correctly so that I can use variable FontSize to choose.



Thanks for any help.

I haven't tried this suggestion yet, but I have been meaning to.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=234302

Get your self a bottle of tums, this one may give you hartburn.

The problem is not only adjusting it based on your font size but it has to adjust also for font style (if different fonts are usec) your adjustments have to be based on the chart zoom as well as if you adjust the scale on the right side of the price margin too. theres a lot of variables there.

I ran across that problem with placeing dots above the price bars as in the screen shot below. I did not have to worry about font style or sizeing as I used the same font and size (non adjustable). but the rescaling I did have to worry about as price comes in the chart will rescale itself if the new prices are new highs or lows. What I did works well with the chart scale only. The code block below is how I did the adjustments for price scaleing, your have to add a scale effect based on font style and size.
I explained how I did it in the screen shot and you can introduce the X variable for the font adjustments. The screen shot is not the complete code block but it will give you something to go on. Maybe some one else has a simpler method.

Keit

CodeMeister and CockeyedCowboy,

Thanks a lot - this are good starting points.

Or to move to MT5