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Line Drawing Issues
submitted by Tking 1 year, 2 months ago

— I regularly run into problems with displaying and copying lines.  If I try to copy an angled line that does not have the two little boxes that originally defined the line displayed on the current viewed area of the chart, then the resultant line will be vertical off the edge of the displayed area.  Also, if I try to move the original line where the two boxes are not visible on the current view, the line jumps to some goofy angle sometimes off the displayed view and its original version is now gone.  Also, I am starting to notice that some of these lines disappear without explaination on some time intervals.

An example of the first problem is a continuous angled line drawn from a point 10 days ago to a point 2 days ago.  Now switch to a shorter time frame that only show the last couple of hours (use a line that was drawn such that it should be visible currently) and then try to copy or move it.  I have also noticed that angled lines occasionally get tweeked out of their original alignment slightly, but I haven't quite figured out how to predict when it happens, and I do not rule out some operator error on my part.

MT4 doesn't seem to have any of the problems above, but it would sure be nice to be able to rely on the lines drawn on Desktop Pro rather than having to use both packages.  I realize this probably does not impact a lot of people, but it is a problem.

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>>>The two boxes denote the selection of that line. You must have those showing in order to perform an action relative to that line.

Also, if I try to move the original line where the two boxes are not visible on the current view, the line jumps to some goofy angle sometimes off the displayed view and its original version is now gone. Also, I am starting to notice that some of these lines disappear without explanation on some time intervals.

>>>See above. Additionally if you draw a line in say a 10second chart and then try to adjust it in a day chart it may either be too small or “goofy” do to scaling. The larger the scale the easier to work with in the smaller increment charts. Draw a day bar and play with it in a minute chart for example.

An example of the first problem is a continuous angled line drawn from a point 10 days ago to a point 2 days ago. Now switch to a shorter time frame that only show the last couple of hours (use a line that was drawn such that it should be visible currently) and then try to copy or move it. I have also noticed that angled lines occasionally get tweeked out of their original alignment slightly, but I haven't quite figured out how to predict when it happens, and I do not rule out some operator error on my part.

>>>Consider the scale of this. See above works very well if you try my idea.
posted by ross_ditlove 1 year, 2 months ago
I see what you mean now about "tweaked" we will fix it.

Ross
posted by ross_ditlove 1 year, 2 months ago



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