display a string of text in a label based on function value

Hi Pete – I started my move over to TOS, and watched your videos on multi monitor setups – very helpful!

I just started playing with thinkscript today, as I have a few studies I want to create.  My first is rather simple – it is a script to show a label with the ATR, 10% of ATR & 2% of ATR.

The script has inputs for # of periods (starting at current period price, going backwards) and the type of average (averageType = Simple, Exponential, Weighted, Wilders and Hull). It seems to match the TOS provided ATR study at the last candle (which is what I want), and it takes up a lot less screen space than a chart over time for the ATR, which is the reason for the script.

I have it all working, except when I echo the averageType, it shows a number, which I think is based on an internal conversion the interpreter is doing (Simple = 0, Exponential = 1, Weighted = 2, Wilders = 3 and Hull = 4), when I change inputs in the Customizing Study dialog.

I am trying to build the logic with a variable to display a string that is set, based on the number that averageType contains, but for the life of me I can’t get the syntax right… (for example, if the average type = Simple, display “Simple” in the label, rather than the “0” that is displayed)

most recent effort was to declare the DFKTMA variable, and then set it to equal the string I want, using nested If thens, but I can’t get even a basic 2 conditional to work.

am I attacking this the right way?

the commented lines are just the last iteration of about 8 different ways I have tried to set the variable DFKTMA to a string that says “Simple”, rather than the “0” that is is displayed in the label.

here is the script:

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def AvgTrueRange1;
def AvgTrueRange2;
def AvgTrueRange3;
#def DFKTMA = “Simple”;

input length = 14;
input averageType = AverageType.WILDERS;
# DFKTMA=Wilders if averageType=0 then DFKTMA==Wilders else DFKTMA==test;

#if (averageType == “3”, DFKTMA == “Wilders”, “Test”) ;
# def DFKTMA = “Simple” If (averageType = AverageType.SIMPLE, Else DFKTMA == “test”;

AvgTrueRange1 = MovingAverage(averageType, TrueRange(high, close, low), length);
AvgTrueRange2 = AvgTrueRange1 / 10;
AvgTrueRange3 = AvgTrueRange1 / 50;

AddLabel(yes, Concat(” Type of MovingAverage: “, Concat(averageType, Concat(” # of Periods: “, Concat(length, Concat(” ATR: “, Concat(AvgTrueRange1, Concat(” ATR/10%: “, Concat(AvgTrueRange2, Concat(” ATR/2%: “, AvgTrueRange3))))))))), Color.WHITE);
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