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Re: [amibroker] Re: How do you find the number of padded bars that are visible?



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It is described in detail in the Knowledge Base:
http://www.amibroker.com/kb/2008/07/03/quickafl/

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sidhartha70" <sidhartha70@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:13 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: How do you find the number of padded bars that are visible?


> If your talking about built in AFL functions like PlotOHLC() etc then they have built in abilities to plot beyond the end of the 
> last bar... so wondering about how much space in there is not something you have to worry about.
>
> If it's low level gfx, then I'm not sure I can help. I do use low level gfx quite a bit but it is either 'on or off' my chart... I 
> tend to use it for display buttons & grids etc..etc...
>
> There may well be a way to get back the info you want... maybe someone else can point you in the right direction...?
>
> As a point of note Conrad, I wouldn't worry so much about code speed right now... my advice is to get down what you want, then 
> worry about removing any superfluous calculation afterwards...
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sidhartha70" <sidhartha70@xxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just to be clear Conrad, you are talking about low level gfx drawing operations....? Rather than those in any way related to the 
>> AFL Plot() PlotOHLC() etc..etc...?
>>
>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Conrad Joach" <consolejoker@> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'll ask this question in a totaly different way. Depending on a user's settings, there is a certain amount of padding on the 
>> > right side of the chart when the chart is scrolled all the way to the right.
>> >
>> > It could be none, but default is more than none. Mine is set to 15 bars.
>> >
>> > My script would like to know how many bars of padding are visible on the chart. For instance if the default is 15, and the user 
>> > hasn't moved the scroll bar, then there are 15 bars of space that I would like to plot some data in.
>> >
>> > But if the user has scrolled just a bit, there may be only 7 blank bars left on the right, and I want to plot here just those 7 
>> > bars. If I plot more than 7, I am going to draw into the right hand price axis, plus waste resources.
>> >
>> > It may be that when the user scrolls back in time, they see 0 bars. I would like to know not to plot anything beyond the bars 
>> > that are visible.
>> >
>> > So how can one find this out?
>> >
>>
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