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Date/Time: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:46:35 +0000
Post From: Displaying an image on a trading chart
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| User906224 - Posts: 14 |
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Yes, you can display text on a chart; however, you cannot display a vendor's logo (short of creating a font and installing the font onto the user's machine, which is a very long way around the barn for this). Suppose the vendor wants to display something unusual - perhaps a pie chart or meter display next to a set of bars. How would they do that? It's trivial in .NET platforms, but in SC is essentially impossible. As a workaround, though, if you were to simply make a type of drawing tool that has a property to specify the .PNG file to be displayed at the tool's position, we could then simply output the visualization we want to a temporary file and add a drawing tool that displays it at the right spot on the chart. You're right, it is not a critical need, but it is a feature gap between SC and its competitors because unlike with .NET the SC architecture does not allow a programmer to output directly to the screen. What I was proposing was a way for you to provide that capability, at least in a basic way.
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