Sierra Chart | Handling “function or variable may be unsafe” unsafe when compiling Sierra Chart Custom Study You are compiling your study and getting these warnings. We want the output of compiling to be clean. No errors and no warnings. 1>—— Build started: Project: demo, Configuration: Debug Win32 —— 1> SCStudies.cpp 1>d:demosierrachartacs_sourcesierrachart.h(385): warning C4996: ‘strcpy’: […]
Sierra Chart | The Anatomy of a Sierra Chart Custom Study DLL Custom studies have a skeleton or structure to them. This structure is the basis of how a custom study fits in with the application itself. The structure can be broken down into four major components. The “physical” DLL file The Sierra Chart DLL […]
Sierra Chart | Persistent Variables with Sierra Chart It is common when programming indicators to have to retain a value between subsequent calls to your study function. These are cases where you need to store some value that has just been calculated for some future use. Some examples of this include: Retain the index on […]
Sierra Chart | Visual Studio and Sierra Chart – Project Setup Summary: Demonstrates step by step howto create and configure an initial project in Visual Studio 2010 Express, compile the project and make some simple changes to the default names. Videos are separated into three parts due to size and viewing convenience Part 1 – Setting up […]
Sierra Chart | Getting Started with Sierra Chart and Visual Studio Below is material to assist with a kick start to developing custom studies with Sierra Chart and Visual Studio. To follow the videos, it helps to have both Sierra Chart and Visual studio installed. The videos are recorded using SC version 892 and Visual […]
Sierra Chart | Sharing data between studies in Sierra Chart A common task when programming studies is this: You have two studies, StudyA and StudyB StudyA computes some data which you need to access in StudyB StudyA and StudyB might be on the same chart, might be on different charts with the same timeframe or […]