MQL4 drawing rectangle over price - object

I am trying to write a label in a rectangle over the price in the top left corner of my chart with my custom indicator. I can draw the rectangle and the label fine but I cannot get the order in which they display correct. The candlestick chart is always at the top and I can switch around the label and the rectangle's orders by using the following code
ObjectSetInteger(NULL, "objBackground", OBJPROP_BACK,true);
Please help, how do I put the candlesticks at the back, then the rectangle and the label(s) at the the forefront?
Thanks for your help!

Just make chart not on the foreground and you will see objects on top
bool ChartForegroundSet(const bool value,const long chart_ID=0)
{
//--- reset the error value
ResetLastError();
//--- set property value
if(!ChartSetInteger(chart_ID,CHART_FOREGROUND,0,value))
{
//--- display the error message in Experts journal
Print(__FUNCTION__+", Error Code = ",GetLastError());
return(false);
}
//--- successful execution
return(true);
}

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How to increase size of text value on top of MPAndroid Bar Chart?

I have created a chart using MPAndroid Chart. I want to know how can I increase the size of text value on top of each bar in MPAndroid Bar Chart? Which API should I use? I have circled the value in the attached picture in Red circle
you can try it by using
barDataset.setValueTextSize(12f);
where barDataset is BarDataSet
I was able to find the answer to my question after some trials. This is the code to set the font size of left and right Y-axis on a MPAndroidChart
import com.github.mikephil.charting.charts.CombinedChart;
//Code snippet
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YAxis yaLeft = combinedChart.getAxisLeft();
YAxis yaRight = combinedChart.getAxisRight();
yaLeft.setTextSize(14/*textSize*/);
yaRight.setTextSize(14/*textSize*/);

AndroidPlot - Labels and text

I am a non-developer product manager for an application built in both Android and iOS. We have a bar graph in iOS that provides text for the content of the graph. It displays Totals for each bar, and percentages for each segment of each bar.
In Android, using AndroidPlot (so I understand) we just display the bars with different color segments and no percent totals or totals. I am told by the developer that we can't show more.
I would display the images here, but stackoverflow tells me I don't have enough reputation points to do this. I have created a link to my dropbox with the images https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2uocm5bn79rerbe/AAB7s9QEEYIRIgXhKbUAaOyDa
Is it possible to use AndroidPlot to emulate this iOS chart or at least represent to same information to the end user?
Your developer is more or less correct but you have options. Androidplot's BarRenderer by default provides only an optional label at the top of each bar, which in your iOS images is occupied by the "available", "new", "used" and "rent" label. That label appears to be unused in your Android screenshot so one option would be to utilize those labels do display your totals.
As far as exactly matching the iOS implementation with Androidplot, the missing piece is the ability to add additional labels horizontally and vertically along the side of each bar. You can extend BarRenderer to do this by overriding it's onRender(...) method. Here's a link for your developer that shows where in the code he'll want to modify onRender(...).
I'd suggest these modifications to add the vertical labels:
Invoke Canvas.save(Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG) to store the default orientation of the Canvas.
Use Canvas.translate(leftX, bottom) to center on the bottom left point of the bar
Rotate the Canvas 90 degrees using Canvas.rotate(90) to enable vertical text drawing
Draw whatever text is needed along the side of the plot; 0,0 now corresponds to the bottom left corner of the bar so start there when invoking canvas.drawText(x,y).
Invoke Canvas.restore() to restore the canvas' original orientation.
After implementing the above, adding horizontal "%" labels should be self evident but if you run into trouble feel free to ask more questions along the way.
UPDATE:
Here's a very basic implementation of the above. First the drawVerticalText method:
/**
*
* #param canvas
* #param paint paint used to draw the text
* #param text the text to be drawn
* #param x x-coord of where the text should be drawn
* #param y y-coord of where the text should be drawn
*/
protected void drawVerticalText(Canvas canvas, Paint paint, String text, float x, float y) {
// record the state of the canvas before the draw:
canvas.save(Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG);
// center the canvas on our drawing coords:
canvas.translate(x, y);
// rotate into the desired "vertical" orientation:
canvas.rotate(-90);
// draw the text; note that we are drawing at 0, 0 and *not* x, y.
canvas.drawText(text, 0, 0, paint);
// restore the canvas state:
canvas.restore();
}
All that's left is to invoke this method where necessary. In your case it should be done once per BarGroup and should maintain a consistent position on the y axis. I added the following code to the STACKED case in BarRenderer.onRender(...), immediately above the break:
// needed some paint to draw with so I'll just create it here for now:
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setTextSize(PixelUtils.spToPix(20));
drawVerticalText(
canvas,
paint,
"test",
barGroup.leftX,
basePositionY - PixelUtils.dpToPix(50)); // offset so the text doesnt intersect with the origin
Here's a screenshot of the result...sorry it's so huge:
Personally, I don't care for the fixed y-position of these vertical labels and would prefer them to float along the upper part of the bars. To accomplish this I modify my invocation of drawVerticalText(...) to look like this:
// needed some paint to draw with so I'll just create it here for now:
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
paint.setTextSize(PixelUtils.spToPix(20));
// right-justify the text so it doesnt extend beyond the top of the bar
paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.RIGHT);
drawVerticalText(
canvas,
paint,
"test",
barGroup.leftX,
bottom);
Which produces this result:

Rounded corner when change LoadMoreElement background color in Monotouch Dialog

I'm trying using this code :
LoadMoreElement elm = new LoadMoreElement (normalCaption, loadingCaption, tapped);
elm.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Blue; // new UIColor (27,109,192,1);
elm.TextColor = UIColor.White;
This results in a complete blue rectangular cell with no rounded corners.
What I'm missing?
The LoadMoreElement is only intended to be used in the middle of the table, not on the corners.
If you want to use it, you will need to write custom code to render the corners, you can see some sample code in the ImageElements.

Flot pie charts - externally selecting slices

I found this solution.
If type of chart is pie, how specify parameters (x,y) of highlight(x, y)?
Thanks
Sorry for my bad English.
Unfortunately, flot doesn't expose the pie highlighting code to the user. So we are pretty much out of luck, but what may work for you is synthesizing a click event at the appropriate place on the page:
$("#highligher").click(function () {
var e = jQuery.Event('click');
e.pageX = 250; //add a made up x/y coordinate to the click event
e.pageY = 250;
$('#plot canvas:first').trigger(e); //trigger the click event on the canvas
});
Here it is in action: http://jsfiddle.net/ryleyb/mHJm5/
The problem is you have to know where the slice you want to highlight is already. This would be easy enough to set if the graph is static. If it's a dynamic graph, you'd have to dig into the source of the pie code to figure out how to calculate where the pie slice is. It might be easier in that case to just have a copy of all the pie functions and manually draw on the pie overlay.
Just got this working by altering a few things...
I changed highlight and unhighlight in jquery.flot.pie.js to pieHighlight and pieUnhighlight.
Then, after these two lines in jquery.flot.pie.js...
plot.hooks.processOptions.push(function(plot, options) {
if (options.series.pie.show) {
I added...
plot.highlight = pieHighlight;
plot.unhighlight = pieUnhighlight;
We're maintaining selection state outside of the chart (as a backbone model). When a selection event (click) occurs, we set the selected slice in the model. When selection changes, we refresh the chart using a selection color for the pie slices that are selected.
var data = [];
var color = slice.index == selected ? '#FF0000' : '#0000FF';
data.push({label:slice.Label,data:slice.Value,color:color});
The snippet above uses blue for all non-selected slices, red for the selected slice. Your color logic will be more sophisticated.
NOTE: You can also use rgba CSS for the colors, which gives a really nice effect. For example:
var color = slice.index == selected ? 'rgba(0,0,255,1)' : 'rgba(0,0,255,0.5)';

MonoTouch: How to resize a view.Frame inside Draw override and draw correctly?

the problem I am having it that if inside the UIView Draw override, I change the view frame size, drawing a rectangle is not working as expected.
If I change the view frame size outside of the Draw override, it works fine. Is this an expected behavior or is it a problem with monotouch only?
This is the code I am using:
class ChildView : UIView
{
public override void Draw (RectangleF rect)
{
base.Draw (rect);
CGContext g = UIGraphics.GetCurrentContext();
//adding 30 points to view height
RectangleF rec = new RectangleF(this.Frame.Location,this.Frame.Size);
rec.Height+=30;
RectangleF rec_bounds = new RectangleF(0,0,rec.Width,rec.Height);
this.Frame=rec;
this.Bounds=rec_bounds;
//drawing a red rectangle to the first half of view height
UIColor.Red.SetFill();
RectangleF _rect = new RectangleF(this.Bounds.Location,this.Bounds.Size);
_rect.Height=_rect.Height/2;
g.FillRect(_rect);
}
}
However, the output of this code is this: (it should draw only 30 points red, but it draws 60 points)
Here is a link to download the project to reproduce this issue:
www.grbytes.com\downloads\RectangleDrawProblem.rar
Καλημέρα!
This behavior is expected. If you want to change the view's frame inside the Draw override, do it before getting the current context. That is because the graphics context also has a size and that is the size of the view at the time you are retrieving it.
Also, there is no need to set both the Bounds and the Frame of the view. You can just set either of them in this case.
By the way, I don't think you need to call base.Draw(). According to the Apple documentation, "If you subclass UIView directly, your implementation of this method does not need to call super."

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