Strategy Debugger: Indicator not found

[BMTrader]

Hi guys,

I just wrote a first custom strategy. but i cannot debug it.
i use a custom indicator. i have a copy of the indicator in every directory in the SDK path,
indicator,
indicator\standard
strategy
strategy\standard
but the debugger always tells me he couldnt find the indicator.
the indicator works in marketscope.
the indicator requires to parameters:

indicator:name(resources:get("name"));
indicator:description(resources:get("description"));
indicator:requiredSource(core.Bar);
indicator:type(core.Indicator);

indicator.parameters:addInteger("Signal", resources:get("param_Signal_name"), resources:get("param_Signal_description"), 8);
indicator.parameters:addInteger("Band", resources:get("param_Band_name"), resources:get("param_Band_description"), 5);
indicator.parameters:addColor("SignalColor", resources:get("param_SignalColor_name"), resources:get("param_SignalColor_description"), core.rgb(255, 0, 0));
indicator.parameters:addColor("BandColor", resources:get("param_BandColor_name"), resources:get("param_BandColor_description"), core.rgb(0, 255, 64));

the strategy calls it with
BarSource = ExtSubscribe(1, nil, instance.parameters.Period, instance.parameters.Type == "Bid", "bar");
indicator = core.indicators:create("CustomIndicator", BarSource, Signal,Band);

has anyone a clue what i did wrong. think it is a little mistake
but i cant figure it out

thanks for any advice

BM

[Apprentice]

It would help if you send me an indicator to my private email (lua and lua.rc).


From this piece of code you post, i can see two possible problems.

1)
When calling an external function, its name must be always written in capital letters
indicator = core.indicators:create("CustomIndicator", BarSource, Signal,Band);
indicator = core.indicators:create("CUSTOMINDICATOR", BarSource, Signal,Band);

2)
Do you have on your platform CUSTOMINDICATOR,
or is it the name of this function?

If it is you call CUSTOMINDICATOR from CUSTOMINDICATOR.

3) Custom Indicators you need to copy only to indicators/Custom folder.

[BMTrader]

thanks for the quick reply

as u said i changed to capital letters.
gladly i recently change my indicator and introduced a mistake. from the
error message i got, i can now tell that the strategy debugger expects an indicator
to be in the
indicator\standard directory of indicoreSDK
no matter if its a standard or a custom indicator.

thanks for ur help

BM

[Apprentice]

I could help more if I had a complete code.
Now, I can only assume, what is the problem.