Different Indicators Parameters to iCustom

MQL Language
#1

Hello
I’m trying to make an ea where the user can type the name of the indicator in the ea settings and type list of comma separated parameters.

next i want to detect the type of every parameter and then pass it to the iCustom.

and to check if this parameter is string or double i tell the user if it string leave it as default

the default parameter is 5555

so here is the check

if(parameter1==5555){ string par1="string1"; } else{double par1=parameter1;}

and so on for the next parameters then at the end of the check and declaration of parameters i call the indicator

iCustom(_Symbol,_Period,indicator_name,par1,par2,par3,par4,indicator_buffer,1);

the problem is that the defined variables are only accessed in the if statement scope
tried to create a function inside it and return the value and use function overloading but didn’t work as it’s not allowed to create function inside a function.
so i need any way to make the local variables accessed in the ontick scope.
Please help.

#2

@Mad_Gamer This is not a scoping issue. Your variables are defined outside the if statement and should are accessible in iCustom. If you need more help post your code so we can have a look

#3 
input double parameter1=5555;
input double parameter2=5555;
input double parameter3=5555;
input double parameter4=5555;

this code is in the global scope above the OnInit function

if(parameter1==5555)
{
string par1="string1";
}
else
{
double par1=parameter1;
}
//
if(parameter2==5555)
{
string par2="string2";
}
else
{
double par2=parameter2;
}

and so on
this is inside ontick function and after this comes the icustom function outside the if scope
iCustom(_Symbol,_Period,indicator_name,par1,par2,par3,par4,indicator_buffer,1);

so any suggestions?

#4

actually looking at your code again, it does look like a scoping issue. What error are you getting? Also, consider having two variables instead of one. Also you should be defining your variables outside the if blocks

string par1string = "";
double par1double = 0;

if(parameter1==5555)
{
   par1string="string1";
} else {
    par1double=parameter1;
}

// then see which one has been assigned a value and use that
if( par1string != "" )
{
   // do something with par1string
} else {
  // do something with par1double
}

Hope that helps

#5

the problem is i want to call icustom and when there is like 20 inputs and 3 of them are strings and the rest is double there would be a lot of probabilities for the parameters order.

#6

Was there a final solution? I am looking to try and do the same. :frowning:

Can you post your full solution?

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