ASCIL Assistance - Date/Time

October 6th, 2020, 01:40 PM

The zigzag study (code is in Studies7.cpp) has the option to display the length of time a line is drawn before a reversal occurs.

The time is always formatted as hh.mm.ss using the code below. I'd like to display only the amount of minutes the wave has taken. This is simple enough by changing the GetLength parameters. However, I primarily use tick charts and the time for a reversal can spread over several hours, what the function doesn't do is convert the total time into purely minutes. As an example, if the time taken was 1h 55 mins it would display as 01:55:00, what I want it to display is 115.

I hoping someone might be able to help recoding this as I'm struggling to understand what to change and where. Thanks in advance.

if (ShowZigZagDuration.GetYesNo())
{
if (BarLabelText.GetLength() != 0)
{
if (UseMultiLineLabels.GetYesNo())
BarLabelText += "\n";
else
BarLabelText += " ";
}

double ZigZagTimeSpan = 0;
if (sc.ChartDataType == INTRADAY_DATA)
{
if (ZigZagIndex < sc.ArraySize - 1)
ZigZagTimeSpan = (sc.BaseDateTimeIn[ZigZagIndex + 1] - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetAsDouble();
else
ZigZagTimeSpan = (sc.LatestDateTimeForLastBar - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetAsDouble();
}
else
{
ZigZagTimeSpan = (sc.BaseDateTimeIn[ZigZagIndex] - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetAsDouble();
}

SCString TimeDurationStr;
if (sc.ChartDataType == INTRADAY_DATA)
{
TimeDurationStr = sc.FormatGraphValue(ZigZagTimeSpan, 20);

if (TimeDurationStr.GetLength() >= 3 && TimeDurationStr[0] == '0' && TimeDurationStr[1] == '0' && TimeDurationStr[2] == ':')
TimeDurationStr = TimeDurationStr.GetSubString(TimeDurationStr.GetLength() - 3, 3);
}

SCString LengthStr;

LengthStr += TimeDurationStr;

BarLabelText += LengthStr;

October 6th, 2020, 05:05 PM

I'm not an ACSIL guru by any means, but in the past, I have separated the hours and minutes using this code:

int hour = sc.BaseDateTimeIn[sc.Index].GetHour();
int minute = sc.BaseDateTimeIn[sc.Index].GetMinute();

Then I could do something like this:

int totMinutes = (hour * 60) + minute;

Then I could convert totMinutes to a string.

Maybe something similar would work for you.

October 6th, 2020, 05:21 PM

Thanks ondafringe

Finally managed to work this out, through lots of trial and error. Got it to work using the GetTimeInSeconds function. Code changes in Bold:

int ZigZagTimeSpan = 0;
if (sc.ChartDataType == INTRADAY_DATA)
{
if (ZigZagIndex < sc.ArraySize - 1)
ZigZagTimeSpan = ((sc.BaseDateTimeIn[ZigZagIndex + 1] - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetTimeInSeconds());
else
ZigZagTimeSpan = ((sc.LatestDateTimeForLastBar - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetTimeInSeconds());
}
else
{
ZigZagTimeSpan = ((sc.BaseDateTimeIn[ZigZagIndex] - sc.BaseDateTimeIn[BackRefIndex + 1]).GetTimeInSeconds());
}

SCString TimeDurationStr;

TimeDurationStr = SCString().Format("%i", int(ZigZagTimeSpan) /60);

October 6th, 2020, 05:38 PM

Good... Nothing more satisfying than solving a programming problem.

Well... okay... that's a bit of a stretch. lol

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