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Could someone help me with a Paint scheme issue?
I want to have a shorter timeframe (daily in this case) be painted with a scheme that references a higher timeframe (weekly). I have created a paint scheme using conditions that reference indicators that I have created and made "weekly not streaming" as their price source and this works nicely in the weekly timeframe. However when I load that paint scheme to the daily chart it references all the indicators etc to the daily chart.
All I want is for the paint scheme to show me exactly what the higher time frame signal is - any thoughts?
Thanks for your help.
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Joined: 10/7/2004
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I don't know the particulars of what you are trying, but the following RealCode Paint Scheme seems to work (keeping in mind that the color of the 1-Day Bars are based on the 1-Week Bar of which they are apart and may reflect a Price that was not True for their actual Day):
New PriceData method. Get Pricing data for any symbol/timeframe
Paint Schemes
PlotColor = Color.Red
Static cS As PriceScripting
If isFirstBar Then
Dim tf As New WeeklyTimeFrameProvider
tf.NumWeeks = 1
cS = PriceData(CurrentSymbol, tf)
End If
If cS.Last > cS.Last(1) Then
PlotColor = Color.Lime
End If
-Bruce
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Bruce;
Thanks for the reply. What I am trying to accomplish is this:
I have a weekly chart with a paint scheme created from a combo of indicators on that chart and saved. I have a separate daily chart that I wish to have painted identically to that scheme based on the weekly timeframe. It would in fact be my preference that the colors on the daily not change until the weekly status has changed. Any help would be appreciated.
I have however studiously avoided spending the time to learn RealCode (as time is the thing I have the least of and as a longtime TC user I had become accustomed to using a roundabout approach to problem solving  ). I can certainly cut and paste into the paint scheme but I suspect I need to change something to point to the chart in question?
Thanks again for your time & effort.
gasminder
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The example given for using a Weekly Bar Interval to Paint a Daily Indicator was just that. I don't know what Conditions you are using and had no way to incorporate them into the RealCode.
Based on my understanding of the timing of how you want the Indicators to be Painted, you may be able to just create a new Paint Scheme for the Indicator on the Daily Chart and then Drag and Drop the Conditions from the Weekly Chart to the Indicator on the Daily Chart you wish to Paint and select Add to Paint Scheme.
This seems to maintain the link to the Bar Interval selection on the Weekly Chart while Saving the Paint Scheme and then loading it into another Chart does not (probably because it is Saved instead of Linked).
-Bruce
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Ahhhh - the drag 'n drop works perfectly. I had no idea you could do that.......at some point I will learn to ask BEFORE spending hours trying to figure it out................Thanks for the help and a great product!-gasminder
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You're welcome.
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