Giving a name to a horizontal line in MT4

[Mr Ian Michael Pitman]

Does anyone know if there is a way of naming a horizontal line so that the name stays just above the line on the right hand side of the screen ?

[Roberto Jacobs]

ian:
Does anyone know if there is a way of naming a horizontal line so that the name stays just above the line on the right hand side of the screen ?

May you can used OBJ_TEX and OBJPROP_TEXT

Read documentation:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/constants/objectconstants/enum_object_property#enum_object_property_double

[Marco vd Heijden]

Or also

OBJPROP_TOOLTIP

The text of a tooltip. If the property is not set, then the tooltip generated automatically by the terminal is shown. A tooltip can be disabled by setting the "\n" (line feed) value to it

string

[Keith Watford]

if you can code mql4

You would need to create a label with the name. The problem is that you would have to check the position in OnChartEvent to get the y co-ordinate of the line as the scale changes, then re=position the label accordingly.

Otherwise, edit the line's properties and add the name in the description box.

Open chart properties and check "Show Object Descriptions"

That will show the description on the left of the chart

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description

[Alain Verleyen]

Vasyl Nosal:
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Giving a name to a horizontal line in MT4

ian, 2016.02.20 09:38

Does anyone know if there is a way of naming a horizontal line so that the name stays just above the line on the right hand side of the screen ?

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Alain Verleyen:

The question was :

Set description same as name.

[Alain Verleyen]

Vasyl Nosal:
Set description same as name.

And how will you place this description "above the line on the right hand side of the screen" ?

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Alain Verleyen:
And how will you place this description "above the line on the right hand side of the screen" ?

On left.

On right only by coding.