Does hiding indicator pauses it too?

[Kasper]

I hide and show indicators as needed on a single chart. I set some paintbar indicators with alerts and hidden paintbars keep alerting.

If hide is only for display, can there be a way to pause indicators as well and will it affect performance?

[Mike Medved]

Hiding it does not pause it at all - on purpose. For example, paintbars use hidden indicators all the time.

Indicators or paintbars should not affect performance much - of course, with paintbars it very much depends on the paintbar code. It is easy to write a huge loop that would slow it down.

I could maybe add an IsHidden boolean var in paintbars so when you're using advanced you could make it not fire alerts if it is hidden?

[Kasper]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for clarifying this for me. I guess I should use more templates instead of too many indicators on one chart.

IsHidden will be good way to exit paintbar if a PB indicator is hidden. Thanks for coming up with this idea.

I suppose one can track a paintbar's performance by plotting or setting alert on time it takes to complete a run?

[Mike Medved]

One run of a paintbar is too short to be tracked. If you use some long loops in a paintbar, in aggregate it may start slowing down the system.

I will put in the IsHidden (and document it in help).