still confused, PlaySound still repeating

[JimPunkrockford]

could you please send to to the proper documentation to figure out how to code the count down thing or whatever i need to get my PlaySound to only fire once. i'm having a 10min stoch get triggered in a 2min chat so the sound file gets played on close of each of the 2 min bars till a new 10min bar gets started.


// Condition set 3
if (CrossBelow(Stochastics(BarsArray[1],3, 10, 3).K, 80,1))
{
PlaySound(@"C:\Program Files\NinjaTrader 7\sounds\Alert4.wav");

}

sorry, i know this gets asked a lot but i couldn't find the link to the answer

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You can either use a bool flag to call it only once and then reset the flag on the OnBarUpdate() of the larger series, or you use Alert() and set a high 'rearm' time - http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...eV6/Alert.html

[JimPunkrockford]

could you point me to any sample code of setting a high rearm time? what it would look like specifically, i'm kind lame and really need to see what it is supposed to look like. thanks for the quick answer

[JimPunkrockford]

better yet where can i learn about the bool flag thing? is there a link for that?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

You can see an Alert() example in the helpguide link I pasted in, it basically set the seconds how long an alert triggered will be ignored before it's rearmed again to fire.

The bool flag is really just a common programming concept taking advantage of a boolean variable can either be true or false, like a switch. You can then for example do things like this below -

if (myCondition1 and boolFlag = true)
Do this...
boolFlag = false;

if (myCondition2)
boolFlag = true;

Your condition2 resets to boolFlag to enable condition1 to trigger an action again.