fixed width specified as string length input Label

[Glefdar]

A peeve of mine about thinkorswim is that we can’t easily set a fixed width for a chart label, since the character count of the label’s content will change the width of the label. For example, “5005” will create a smaller label horizontally than 5005.50, even if we used extra spaces to pad out the label width. I’m wondering if there is an optimal code pattern for a template solution. E.g. maybe if we could count the value (or text) string length and accordingly add or subtract spaces based on that. Don’t see an obvious way to to that though. Anyone have a thoughts on if it is possible?

 

[Svanoy]

You can use the AsText function to specify number of decimal places. 5005 would display as 5005.00.

 

[rad14733]

No matter how data is formatted the columns have to be manually set... There is no way to tell the platform how wide we want columns to be like we can with spreadsheets... Clicking on the column edge and dragging is all TOS provides us... Unfortunately, we must live within the constraints of the platform... I doubt Schwab will be giving us platform wide column settings any time soon, if ever...