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<\/a><\/p>\nTips can be used with gfx Control panels, trading dashboards, charts (function like the interpretation screen and now defunct ToolTip), tabular data, system status displays, gfx menus, caution and alert messages, etc. Your imagination sets the limits. Of course you can change the balloon size, colors, fonts, shape, etc. to your requirements. The code for the trading buttons shown is not provided in this post – that could be another topic.<\/p>\n
Tips can display real-time market and system information. In the above example the Last price and a cautionary warning that Transmit is turned ON reflect real-time status.<\/p>\n
In this post Tips are placed relative to the mouse’s cursor position. In chart applications you might want to use dynamically placed Tips that point to a critical event or condition on your chart. You would do this by converting price and bars to pixels and replace the MX and MY variables in the code with calculated values. For more on this see How to convert from bar-value to pixel coordinates<\/a> on the AmiBroker Knowledge Base.<\/p>\n When I write button functions I add Tip information as the last argument to the function, this way the information is right where it is defined by the code. This is also helpful when reading the code. The actual Tip text can be repeated in your manual as a text box so that a clear association exists.<\/p>\n The code in this post demonstrates how the balloon reorients itself depending on in which quadrant of the pane the cursor is located. This is done to keep tips within the pane area, even when hovering over an object close to the edge of the pane. Here is a short video to see how this works.<\/p>\n