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SetBarBackground ([Bar]/[Column],[color])

Usable in an seer chart object

This function sets the color of the background for a spefic bar. You can set specific bars during iteration, or you can pass in a column.

Color can be any color constant, or result from the color function.

Example:

  SetBarBackground(90,Blue); #Set bar 90 background color to blue.

  #This example sets the first 30 bar's background color
  SetChartOption('key',0);
  PlotPrice('Candle');
  for my $c (BarsBack+1..BarsBack+10) {
    SetBarBackground($c,Ppurple); #set the first 10 bars to pastel purple
  }
  for my $c (BarsBack+11..BarsBack+20) {
    SetBarBackground($c,Pblue); #set the next 10 bars to pastel blue
  }
  for my $c (BarsBack+21..BarsBack+30) {
    SetBarBackground($c,Pgreen);#set the next 10 bars to pastel green
  }

  #Set the bar background to pastel green if the close is above the 50 bar moving average
  SetBarBackground(If(Close>EMA(Close,50),1,0),Pgreen);

Related functions:

PlotPrice , PlotColumn , PlotFixedLine , PlotSetScale , PlotLine , PlotText , PlotFixedLine , PlotCandlestick , PlotTellTale , PlotPAC , PlotBand , PlotGrid , DrawLine , DrawText , DrawRectangle , DrawFilledRectangle , SetChartOption , Color , Dashes , Dots , Vline , SetBarColor , ChartInputSlider , ChartInputCombobox

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