StackPolicy (or how to prevent Markers being drawn on top of one another)

[Spin]

Hello fellow programmers,

I have been struggling with the following issue for some time now, so I reach out to the esteemed panel on this forum

I have a study that draws markers on the main plot when certain conditions are met. Sometimes more than one marker is drawn above or below the same bar, like so:



I would like to stop this from happening, and have the diamond and the arrow vertically separated.

This is the code that I use now:

if (ma9 >= ma15)

    {
        MarkerInfo marker = getSettings().getMarker(MARKER12);
        if (marker.isEnabled())
            addFigure(CHECK_PLOT, new Marker(d3, Enums.Position.CENTER, marker));
    }

As you can see, I use 'addFigure' from the class 'Study'. I noticed the subclass 'SinglePointFigure' (of class 'Draw') contains "SetStackPolicy", but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to implement this

Please help. Thanks !

 

[Nudge]

Have you tried setting the y coordinate on the second marker a point or 2 lower than the first marker?

 

[Spin]

Sometimes one can no longer see the forest, because too many trees block the sight

That worked out quite well. Thank you Nudge for that, eeerm, nudge into the right direction !



One remark though (for others / my own future reference):
addFigure - Marker uses the price as y coordinate (instead of the 'true' coordinate in the window), so adding a +5 or even a +1 makes the markers jump very high / low.

So I used a factor of the price to offset the y:

Coordinate c_dia=new Coordinate(series.getStartTime(index), (series.getHigh(index) * 1.0008));
addFigure(Plot.PRICE, new Marker(c_dia, Enums.Position.TOP, marker));