Trapping C# script errors? - Trading Software

Trapping C# script errors?

Josh McCormick
2020-09-10 18:14:42

SCREENSHOT:

https://i.imgur.com/WgTfrol.png

I usually don't get an error on that function. I want to say the ones that I usually find are on chart.SymbolName and on chart.Update function calls.

Two questions:

1. Are there things I should be doing to prevent these kinds of errors from happening?
2. When these errors do happen, is there some way I can trap them so they don't result in a pop-up?

UPDATE: Here's a more common one that I run into: "Method: get_SymbolName" "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

https://i.imgur.com/NKR5gBF.png

UPDATE2: The line "Chart[] charts = Charts.GetAllCharts();" just generated a pop-up error box with an OK button (like the others). This one is on Method: GetAllCharts and the error is "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". There was a chart on-screen and I was using another program at the time.

Thanks,
Josh McCormick

QuantShare
2020-09-14 11:21:15

The error means that you are calling an object method while the object is null

If chart.SymbolName returns that error then this means that chart is null
You can do:
if(chart != null)
{
// Your code
}

Josh McCormick
2020-09-21 17:37:01

Okay! Now I see where I need to go with this.

For something like Charts.GetAllCharts(), that's a function that I'd expect (hope) would eventually give a correct response (because if it doesn't, things are really screwed and nothing else it can do will matter). I'm going to solve that one with while loop (with a sleep), and retry until it works.

I'm thinking about the rest of my code and how I'd handle something more simple like a chart.SymbolName failing (like if a chart was removed *after* Charts.GetAllCharts or Charts.GetSelectedChart was called, but *before* chart.SymbolName is called). Since chart.SymbolName returns a string, I'm assuming it'll return a blank string when chart isn't null, but instead it points to an object that no longer exists?

If so, that'll really be situational and I'll have to look at how I'm processing those. From there, two more questions come to mind:

1. The pop-up boxes are still going to happen regardless of whether I check to see if these functions have failed or not, right?

2. If I'm caught somewhere mid-script in a nested look and I decide that my best choice is it to stop what I'm doing and to start the script again from scratch, what's going to be my best way of handling this? I'm thinking...

Global.ExecuteScript ("Scripts/scriptname.azf",true,null); <--- "null" will work if there are no variables?
return;

...or is there a better way for a script to restart itself from scratch? I don't like embedding the script's name and path into the script itself, but if that's my only option, I'll take it.

Thanks,
Josh McCormick

QuantShare
2020-09-25 14:25:07

Best Answer

1/ The popup should be displayed only when there is an error

2/ The script cannot restart itself. You can avoid errors by doing proper check. Just like the example, I sent you above, before running a function of Chart, you could check if Chart is null or not

if(chart != null)
{
// Your code
}

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