Is this even possible in MQ4? (Capslock Toggle)

Quoting mlewis

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I hate my charts getting cluttered but there are some indicators such as DMAs, Daily Tenkan Sen and Kijun Sen lines, VWAP etc that i feel i need to view from time to time while formulating my strategy. the obvious solution is to have two similar templates and flip between the two, but if i place trendlines and fibs or whatever on the charts, they will be deleted when i flip chart template unless i save a pair of templates for every currency pair im trading etc etc it all gets messy. is it possible to include some code into an indicator that toggles...

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Quoting mlewis

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hey, DonUlti... not quite. i meant you leave the timeframe of the chart as whatever time frame you want. i use 4H, but you can adjust within each indicator what timeframe the indicator is visible in. So for instance you can have a moving average indicator that is only visible when you are viewing a daily chart then dissapears when you switch to an other timeframe. i was wondering if it is possible to program the indicator to switch which timeframes it will be visible in (preferably capslock because it has a latching light on the keyboard). eg. the...

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Quoting mlewis

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eg. the chart stays in H4. when the capslock key is pressed, the indicator is now visible in all timeframes and can be seen on the chart. When it isn't pressed, the indicator is only visible in 1M timeframes and so dissapears from the chart. thereby making the capslock key a clutter on/clutter off toggle. MJL

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Quoting mlewis

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I hate my charts getting clutterd... ,,,,,, i never use 1M charts so could toggle the messy indicators between always visable and only visible in 1M charts? ... ie. hidden but still on the chart cheers M

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int init()
 {
  
  IndicatorBuffers(3);
  SetIndexBuffer(0, Uptrend);
 
  SetIndexBuffer(1, Dntrend);
  
  SetIndexBuffer(2, ExtMapBuffer);
  ArraySetAsSeries(ExtMapBuffer, true);
//----
  if(Period() == 1 || Period() == 5 && (Symbol() != "USDJPYm"))
  {
  SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_NONE,STYLE_SOLID,3,Blue);
  SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_NONE,STYLE_SOLID,3,Magenta);
  }
  else
  if(Period() == 15 || Period() == 30)
  {
  SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,3,Red);
  SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,3,Green);
  }
  else
  if(Period() == 60)
  {
  SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_NONE,STYLE_SOLID,1,Gray);
  SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_SOLID,1,Lime);
  }   
  else
  if(Period() > 60 && Period() < 1440 )
  {
  SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_DASH,1,Gray);
  SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_DASH,1,Lime);
  } 
  else
  {
  SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_DOT,1,Gray);
  SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_LINE,STYLE_DOT,1,Lime);
  }    
  
       
//----
  IndicatorShortName("Signal Line("+period+")");
 
  return(0);
 }

Quoting hayseed

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{quote}//---- hey mlewis...... usually when certain properties are needed to be set on selected timeframes or symbols, you can just code it into the init() section..... this includes, style, color, size, symbol(), drawline, drawnone , periods, sma, ema, so on and so on...... you can include an override option to override the code if by chance you might want to rarely see things on all timeframes...... below is a long drawn out example......

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Quoting mlewis

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thanks for the replies everybody :-) {quote} hi hayseed, essentially, i just need to find a method for easily modifying the following settings from this: to this:

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if(Period() == 1 && GlobalVariableGet("Caps"+Symbol()) )

int start()
  {
   string name = "Hide"+Symbol();
   
   if (GlobalVariableCheck(name))
   
      switch (GlobalVariableGet(name)) {
         case 1: GlobalVariableSet(name,2); break;
         case 2: GlobalVariableSet(name,1); break;
         default: ;// Print + Error Handling;
      }
   
   else GlobalVariableSet(name,1);
   return(0);
}

int start()
  {
   string name = "Hide"+Symbol();
   if(!GlobalVariableSetOnCondition(name,2,1))
         GlobalVariableSet(name,1);
   return(0);
  }