Dear Support,

How can I create multiple ITextChartObject objects in a strategy?
I am using this wikipage as example: https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Chart_object_catalog/Text

I want to place a new text object whenever a condition is fulfilled in my strategy`s onBar() function. However not a new text object being created every time, but the first one is being moved.

public void onBar(Instrument instrument, Period period, IBar askBar, IBar bidBar) throws JFException
{
    ....
    ITextChartObject text = factory.createText("textKey", prevBar.getTime(), prevBar.getLow());
    text.setText("Hello world");
    chart.addToMainChart(text);
    ....
}

text is again, and again, newly declared (and defined) in the onBar function as a ITextChartObject variable. I would say a new ITextChartObject variable is being created, so I would suspect that this way multiple variables are being created. This is not the case.
If text would be a pointer to a ITextChartObject variable, I could imagine why it is always the same object on the bar, but not this way.

I know that manually, on a chart multiple chart objects can be placed, so I guess there must be a way to do this programatically.

Please advice.

Thanks and regards.

You need to specify a unique key for each chart object, otherwise it gets overwritten, see:
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Create_and_manage_chart_objects/key_usage

Thank for the replies.

I was able to manage it with the unique key.
For someone who might look for a similar solution:
I used a global variable in the key part, and increased it every time an chart object was created:

factory.createText("textKey" + count++, bar.getTime(), bar.getLow());