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Re: [amibroker] Having a nasty time figuring this APL out.



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Hello,

This is the main problem with long time programmers - they usually
don't read the User's Guide, they think that know everything about programming already.

Recommended reading:
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_understandafl.html

Your particular problem is listed and explained in "Common mistakes":
http://www.amibroker.com/guide/a_mistakes.html

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Homar Simpson" <x77777x@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:51 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Having a nasty time figuring this APL out.


>  Long time programmer, but mostly in VB type languages. I dont think
> thats the problem here though.
> 
>  Tried a bunch of styles before I realized that you need to use ==
> for testing (again, not needed in VB).
> 
>  But now the complier is complaining that
> 
>  >>>  if (TestVolume == False) PassTest = False; 
> 
>  is using an array.  Whats up with that?  Testvolume is either true
> or false , so I dont know what an array has to do with it, other than
> the Volume array that its testing. 
> 
> I'm sure its an easy fix ;-).
> 
> 
> 
> Days=Param("Days To Test",1,1,15,1);
> 
> PassTest=True;
> 
> for(i=Days; i>0 ; i--) 
> 
> {
> TestVolume = (Ref(Volume ,-i+1)> Ref(Volume ,-i)); 
> 
> 
> if (TestVolume == False) PassTest = False;
> 
> 
> FL1=PassTest;
> FL2=Close >Param("ClosingPrice",5,0,999999,1); 
> 
> Filter = FL1 AND FL2;
> 
> AddColumn(Close,"Close",1.4);
> AddColumn(Volume,"Volume",1.0);
> AddTextColumn( FullName(), "Full name", 77);
> 
> AddColumn(Ref(Volume,-1),"Volume -1",1.0);
> AddColumn(Ref(Volume,-2),"Volume -2",1.0);
> AddColumn(Ref(Volume,-3),"Volume -3",1.0);
> 
> 
> 
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