Script Manager - Strange Behaviour

Optuma Scripting
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Hi Guys,

I’ve created a simple script on a new SHOWBAR:

// Test Gann Swings 3

GS=GANNSWING(DEFAULT=SwingList, SWINGCOUNT=1, METHOD=Use Next Bar);

Signal = SWINGSTART(GS);

Signal

Which I’ve saved using the “Save Script As” button in the Script Manager:

20190925-1 Save Script

I then click “Apply” and the script is applied to the chart and the Script Manager dialogue disappears, as expected.

Now I want to modify the script, so I select “Condition>…” from the SHOWBAR Properties Panel which opens the Script Manager again, but my script is not visible under the listings in “My Scripts”:

20190925-2 Save Script

Cancelling the Script Manager opened from the SHOWBAR, and reopening it from “New>Script Tool” shows that my script is listed and I can modify it there:

20190925-3 Save Script

But then, when I go back to my SHOWBAR, it is again not listed in the Script Manager.

I’ve experienced this behaviour with many scripts as I create them and it is very inconvenient during script development as I wish to create a script, trial it, create another script, trial it, then revert to the first script to further develop it but it is not listed in the SHOWBAR Script Manager. In these circumstance I find I have to go back to Script Manager via the “New” menu, with its inherent creation of an unwanted “New Script”, to access the script I wish to modify.

Please explain this errant behaviour, and preferably eliminate it.

Cheers

Trevor

 

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Hi Trevor

The issue is that Show Bar used to only show Boolean results. So we hid any scripts which were not a Boolean. If your script was

Signal = SWINGSTART(GS) > SWINGSTART(GS)[1];

Then you would see it.

With the ability to show numbers in ShowBars, we do need to do a check to see if this is working ok.

Hopefully that explains what is happening.

All the best

Mathew

3

Thanks Mathew.

It is a pain that the Script Manager hides those that are not Boolean results, because it makes it harder to get back to modify them. It would be good if there was a way of having such scripts flagged when used in SHOWBARs so users know what is needed to make the SHOWBAR work properly.

Cheers

Trevor