Coverting an indicator between e-signal and sierra charts?

Hey bonfire09.

I am unfamiliar with sierra charts, but from a programmer perspective what are the details of the sierra platform?

What run-time environment? (Web-based: Java-script or something java related, ASP, and so on or Non-Web based like Windows executables in COM, .NET, straight Win-32, MFC?)

Finally what's the API? Does it even have an API? If not can you use a scripting language?

If you answer the above, you'll end up finding the answer.

 

Can you get access to a 3rd party SDK with documentation for the API?

 

I took a quick look and it seems that a standard DLL is the interface that deals with exporting a specific structure (SCStudyGraphRef) from a list of functions.

What you will have to do is basically fill this structure with the right information and Sierra Charts will take it from there.

Look at the data definition of the structure and the helper methods used to populate the structure with the correct information and then look at all the functions you have to supply to Sierra Charts (i.e. all the declared functions in your DLL) and then write them.

I don't know what the structures are and how they are used, but essentially the way to start is to get all structures and sub-structures related to this SCStudyGraphRef and look at how Sierra Charts stores data vs how your other original one (e-signal) stores data.

If the documentation is weak, search all the header files directly to get the definitions: they have to exist other-wise you wouldn't be able to compile the custom DLL or use it to do what you need to do.