MQL4 Reference Custom Indicators IndicatorShortName

IndicatorShortName

Sets the "short" name of a custom indicator to be shown in the DataWindow and in the chart subwindow.

void  IndicatorShortName(
   string     name         // name
   );

Parameters

name

[in]  New short name.

Returned value

None.

Example:

int init()
  {
//---- 2 additional buffers are used for counting.
   IndicatorBuffers(3);
//---- drawing settings
   SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,3);
   SetIndexDrawBegin(0,SignalSMA);
   IndicatorDigits(MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_DIGITS)+2);
//---- 3 indicator buffers mapping
   SetIndexBuffer(0,ind_buffer1);
   SetIndexBuffer(1,ind_buffer2);
   SetIndexBuffer(2,ind_buffer3);
//---- name for DataWindow and indicator subwindow label
   IndicatorShortName("OsMA("+FastEMA+","+SlowEMA+","+SignalSMA+")");
//---- initialization done
   return(0);
  }

See also

Custom Indicator Properties