Distance between 2 points

• 12/10/2017 at 9:26 PM #55293
  patmaba

  I needed for a strategy to get the geometric distance between 2 points. The platform does not provide the api of the ruler tool. So I implemented the function as an indicator and here is the code I share with you. This is not really an indicator but rather a utility function for developers. See below:

  GeomDistance

  // name : GeomDistance // author : patmaba // date : 2017/12/10 // // Description // ----------- // return the distance between two points // // parameters : // ----------- // (pt1X, pt1Y) coordinate of first point // (pt2X, pt2Y) coordinate of second point // // return : // -------- // distValue return the distance distValue = SQRT((pt2X-pt1X)*(pt2X-pt1X)+(pt2Y-pt1Y)*(pt2Y-pt1Y)) return distValue as "distance"

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  // name : GeomDistance // author : patmaba // date : 2017/12/10 // // Description // ----------- // return the distance between two points // // parameters : // ----------- // (pt1X, pt1Y) coordinate of first point // (pt2X, pt2Y) coordinate of second point // // return : // -------- // distValue return the distance   distValue = SQRT((pt2X-pt1X)*(pt2X-pt1X)+(pt2Y-pt1Y)*(pt2Y-pt1Y)) return distValue as "distance"

   

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  12/11/2017 at 8:19 AM #55311
  Nicolas

  Thank you for this nice useful function. So what is the unit distance returned? Could we consider it as “time based”?

  

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  12/11/2017 at 2:01 PM #55384
  patmaba

  When you take the tool ruler, the result of the tool displays a grey box with a distance value expressed in decimal number followed by a percentage which represents the difference between 2 points.

  The “GeomDistance” function calculates the decimal value that depends on the configuration of your user interface.

  

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  12/11/2017 at 2:17 PM #55386
  Nicolas

  Hmm, so it depends only of price? Why not a simple division between 2 prices? as the X coordinates isn’t needed in this case. Anyway, this is useful function, thank you 🙂 

  

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  12/11/2017 at 9:09 PM #55423
  patmaba

  I use GeomDistanct on lines that are oblique and whose extreme points do not directly touch the candle.

  

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  12/12/2017 at 8:48 AM #55446
  Nicolas

  oh ok! Got a better idea now to know how to use it.

  

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