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How to use ACS buttons to turn a study on/off

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hendrikus
Alkmaar Netherlands
 
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Hi,

wouldl ike to see if anyone can help me out on the following issue. I am looking to use the ACS buttons in SC in order to turn on a certain study. The following code does not seem to work.
Does anybody have another way of doing this?

Thanks in advance,

FHV

 
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SCInputRef Enabled = sc.Input[0]; 
 
 
// wait for an event 
  if (sc.MenuEventID != 0) 
  { 
    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1) 
    { 
        Enabled.SetYesNo(1); 
    } 
  } 
  else 
  { 
    Enabled.SetYesNo(0); 
  } 
 
  if (!Enabled.GetYesNo()) 
    return; 
 
/// the rest of my study

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hendrikus
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Figured it out how to do this. Its a nice feature to toggle between strategies. Hope somebody can use it as well.

Goodluck.

FHV

 
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if (sc.MenuEventID != 0)  

  {  

    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1)  

    {  

      if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_ON) 

      { 

        Enabled.SetYesNo(1);  

      } 

      else if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_OFF) 

      { 

        Enabled.SetYesNo(0); 

      } 

    } 

  }   

 

  if (!Enabled.GetYesNo()) 

           return; 

 

// rest of the study 

 

// place an order with brackets when completed 

//.... 

// acs button to off 

  sc.SetACSToolEnable(SC_ACS_TOOL1, false); 

  Enabled.SetYesNo(0);

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 crazybears 
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Hi
take a look here :

Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, ToolBar Buttons, Mouse Pointer Events - Sierra Chart

sc.ReceiveMousePointerEvents = 1;

i did 2 buttons , LONG & SHORT , they work only with attached charts

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 Traderkysir 
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Hi
take a look here :

Advanced Custom Study Interaction With Menus, ToolBar Buttons, Mouse Pointer Events - Sierra Chart

sc.ReceiveMousePointerEvents = 1;

i did 2 buttons , LONG & SHORT , they work only with attached charts


Hello..
Maybe it's 4 years to late, but would you please share the long/short on/off code.
I'm new to SC/programing and any help will be appreciated
TK

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Sam McLennan
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I'm very interested to know how you created this too please.

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 Trembling Hand 
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Using the above code you would replicate that for two buttons, replace the Enabled.SetYesNo(1) with a PersistentInt for long and one for short and toggle that to 1 or 0 then in your trading code use that PersistentInt as a bool flag.

Like this for long trades

 
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int& TakeLongs= sc.GetPersistentInt(0);

if (sc.Index == 0)
    TakeLongs = 0;


if (sc.MenuEventID != 0)  
{  
    if (sc.MenuEventID == SC_ACS_TOOL1)  
    {  
      if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_ON) 
      { 
        TakeLongs = 1;  
      } 
      else if (sc.MouseEventType == SC_ACS_TOOL_OFF) 
      { 
        TakeLongs = 0;
      } 

    } 
}   


if (TakeLongs == 1)
{
    // Logic to take long trades
}

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