I was wondering if it is possible to capture the multi directional arrow that is supplied in amibroker from the code level.
Plotshapes does not have a multi directional arrow nor does GFX low level graphics. At least I could not find it. Any info appreciated.
Hello @Anthony we didnt see here you for long time i hope you doing well 
If I understood well is, that you want to turn the arrow in deferent angle?
Yes we can do that in GFX by using GfxSelectFont() function and fonts that contains objects
https://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/gfxselectfont.html
// a simple example afl code of how to rotate a font
Plot( C, "Price", colorDefault, 128 );
GfxSetOverlayMode( 1 );
GfxSetCoordsMode( 1 ); //1 = bar/price mode (instead of pixel)
GfxsetBkMode( 1 ); // 1 set transparent mode
GfxSetTextColor( colorYellow ); GfxSetTextAlign( 6 );
FntRotation= Param( "Font rotation",180,0,3600,1);
GfxSelectFont( "Wingdings 3", 20, 500, 0, 0, FntRotation );
//GfxSelectFont( "Wingdings 3", 9, 500, 0, 0, 900 ); // vertical fonts
fnt = "$"; //<<<<< selected sample fonts is an arrow
xfonts="Wingdings 3";
x0 = BarCount -2;
y0 = LastValue( ma( c,100));
GfxTextOut(fnt, x0,y0 );
// Also we can use the PlotTextSetFont() function
//PlotTextSetFont( fnt , xfonts, 10, x0, y0, colorred, colorDefault, 50 );
Thanks PanoS, that is showing up as a Dollar sign on my computer $.
Where do I find the list of windings ?
hi you have to goggle it
or play with below afl
nice to have it as template
// GFXFontSymbol Template By Panos 3-5-2012
SetChartBkColor( colorBlack );
GfxSetBkMode(1); // me to 1 den exei backround
FontList = ParamList( "Fonts Name","Webdings|Wingdings 1|Wingdings 2|Wingdings 3|StarFont Sans|Monotype Corsiva|Impact|Marlett ",0);
GfxSelectFont(FontList , 20, 500 );
GfxSetTextColor( ParamColor("Fonts Color",colorAqua));
GfxTextOut("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =", 20, 10 ); //keyboard first line Numbers
GfxTextOut("! @ # $ % ^ & * () _ +", 550, 10 ); //keyboard first line with Shift pressed
GfxTextOut("q w e r t y u i o p [ ]", 20, 40 ); // 2 line qwerty leters
GfxTextOut("Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ]", 550, 40 );
GfxTextOut("a s d f g h j k l ;", 20, 70 ); // 3 line
GfxTextOut("A S D F G H J K L :", 550, 70 );
GfxTextOut("z x c v b n m , . /", 20, 100 ); // 4 line
GfxTextOut("| z x C V b n m < > ?", 550, 100 );
// this is just for testing
GfxSetTextColor( ColorRGB( 100, 200, 100 ) );
GfxTextOut(" Type Here , ", 20, 140 );
@PanoS @Anthony I wanted to write that to be able to do the full rotation you might want to modify the the param line to allow it to change from 0 to 3600 because the angle is specified in 0.1 degree units:
... but I have just noticed, that you already modified your post that way 
Hi Milosz
The fun is just started for Antony. As he’s going to spent some time now to make a loop to adjust the angle of the arrow to he’s needs.
Milosz, what have you used for the arrow ?
First arrow:
fnt = "$"; // arrow
Second arrow:
fnt = "a"; // arrow
Whatever I put in fnt comes out exactly at that on the chart, no arrow.
fnt = "$"; dollar sign on my chart
fnt = "a"; small a on my chart
@Anthony Apart from "Wingdings" you can also use UCN/Unicodes. I quote from: http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/readme5940.html
AFL: support for UCN (universal character numbers) \uXXXX where XXXX is hexadecimal character code. UCN output works in PlotText/PlotTextSetFont, GfxDrawText, GfxTextOut, Chart titles, Interpretation and Commentary windows. Requires Windows 2000 or higher
For example
heart "\u2764"
sun "\u2600"
star "\u2605"
EURO currency: "\u20ac"
Sigma (greek): "\u03a3"
alpha (greek): "\u03b1"
beta (greek): "\u03b2"
umbrella: "\u2602"
telephone: "\u260e"
hand pointing up "\u261D"Tables of all UCN/Unicode characters
http://www.unicode.org
http://unicode-table.com/
http://www.unicodemap.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
Various arrows:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf
Enclosed alphanumerics:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2460.pdf
NOT all glyphs (graphical representations of characters) are actually present in current font. This depends on your operating system. For example Segoe UI in Windows 7 has lots of characters, but Windows 8 has more
That means Antony you must look in your PC if you have installed that fonts, or accidently you delete one or most of them.
I cannot help in this. the code should work out of the box.
HINT: try to open word office and type something on Webdings fonts to find out if is there
Thank you PanoS, I am using windows 7. I will have a look around.
Thank you Milosz, I will have a look around.
No problem Anthony. But if you still can, please do me a favour and correct this "Milsoz".
Milosz (Miłosz) is a quite nice - at least in my opinion, Slavic name (meaning someone who is loved). It used to be very rare, now it's becoming more and more popular in Poland
My apologies Milosz hands type faster than mind can transmit sometimes 
As far back as I can remember, Windows has had a utility program called "Character Map", which lives in the "Windows Accessories" folder on Windows 10, but in a similar folder on other versions.
The drop-down at the top has a list of all the fonts available on the PC:
, and it shows all of the glyphs available for each one:
That should give you plenty to choose from.
Thank you Phase21 very informative. I will look for it in windows 7.
Just for fun…… 
//@Fossil
Plot(C,"Close",colorDefault,styleCandle);
RequestTimedRefresh( 1 );
CountNo = Nz( StaticVarGet( "CountNumber") );
FlagNo = Nz( StaticVarGet( "FlagNumber") );
if( CountNo == 5 ) StaticVarSet( "FlagNumber", 1 );
else if ( CountNo == 0 ) StaticVarSet( "FlagNumber", 0 );
if(( FlagNo == 0 ) AND (CountNo < 5)) CountNo ++;
else if (CountNo > 0) CountNo --;
StaticVarSet( "CountNumber", CountNo );
GfxSetZOrder(-1);
GfxSetTextAlign(6);
GfxSetTextColor( colorRed);
GfxSelectFont("" , CountNo * 50 + 50, 400, 0, 0, 0);
GfxTextOut("\u2606", 610, 220 - CountNo * 40 );