Re: [amibroker] Re: Referencing an indicator from a scan, AmiBroker Email List Archive

1. Put the code you want to share (have present in various places) into a file like
MySharedCode.afl
2. Instead of having this code present in your indicator file, just put the #include <MySharedCode.afl>
The system just substitutes the code in the file for the include statement.
3. Write your exploration and where you want your shared code to be present, just put the #include <MySharedCode.afl>
The code from the file will be placed in your exploration code .

I use this many times since I reference the same code all over the place. It also makes looking at the code easier since you only see one line...the #include.
Hope that helps, gotta run.
Robert

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From: dawsonsg <dawsonsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:55:38 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Referencing an indicator from a scan

Thanks Robert.

Yeah I did have a look at that but wasnt sure how to call it. Using
the #include makes the indicator available to the scan it available
to the scan but wasnt sure how to call it?

EG once I have said #Include <indicator> he indicator is avauilable
to the scan. DO I then just call the variables in the indicator as
though they were in the current scan.

Steve

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com, Robert Nemeth <rjnemeth@xx .> wrote:
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> #INCLUDE
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> Miscellaneous functions
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> #include
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> FUNCTION
> Includes external AFL files into your formula. Note 1: include
> statement need SINGLE backslashes in the path (this is quite the
opposite to
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> parsing)
> Note 2: using #include command may slow down
> formula execution even
> considering the fact that AmiBroker tries to include
> only once and cache pre-processed text
> Note 3: that currently no error
> message is given if #include fails and this code
> is experimental.
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> nesting #include commands is not supported
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> #included are cached by the AmiBroker. To turn off caching use
> #pragma
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> before any #include statements. #include now accepts new way of
> specifying file names to include:
> #include <filename.afl>
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definable
> using new prefs setting in Tools->Preferences- >AFL It makes much
shorter
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changing all AFL
> codes using #includes.
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to "C:\AFL\MyIncludes" and
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> #include <common.afl>
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> Also now #include reports file(s) not found in regular error
message box. ?
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> EXAMPLE
> #include "C:\Program Files\AmiBroker\ AFL\common. afl"
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> SEE ALSO
> #pragma() function
> Robert
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> From: dawsonsg <dawsonsg@xx .>
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxx ps.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:30:56 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Referencing an indicator from a scan
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