RE: Setting colour on a multi-plot indicator

["j seed" <jseed_10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,
There is a SANTA!! Thanks for the great Christmas present! Even if it never 
hits the final version at least you heard us.

Thanks again,
J.


>From: PD Manager <pdmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "'metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Setting colour on a multi-plot indicator
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:54:54 -0700
>
>J.
>
>Hint taken.
>
>We have been exploring this possibility for quite awhile.  It MAY possibly
>show up in a future version, but I'm making no promises.  The problem with
>adding the capability to manipulate attributes in a formula (color, style
>etc) is that it will slow down the native number crunching capability of 
>the
>formulas.
>
>If we add this ability to the formula language, it will only be done if we
>can minimize the impact on basic mathematical operation performance.
>
>Ken Hunt
>Programming Manager
>Equis International
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: j seed [mailto:jseed_10@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:05 AM
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Setting colour on a multi-plot indicator
>
>
>Dave,
>I am completely lost with your explanation. I know that I can plot a
>multicolored oscillator...green for increasing and red for declining simply
>by using an if statement to plot or not plot(value zero). This works with 
>an
>
>oscillator simply because I can plot to a value of zero. I can also plot a
>third indicator simply by adding a moving average into the formula. This
>still requires that I manually select the colors that I desire for each and
>yes I can simply this operation by assigning all of this to a template.
>But...I still cannot assign the color in the formula which is what I 
>thought
>
>the question was(wouldn't that be nice! Metastock can you take a hint?).
>Beyond this point your explanation has me lost. So...if you don't mind 
>would
>
>you give us some more detail?
>
>J.
>

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