Shadows created by DrawRegion

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Harry, could reproduce an issue here with the Pivots call - we look into, thanks for reporting.

[Harry]

Hi Harry, could reproduce an issue here with the Pivots call - we look into, thanks for reporting.

Thanks for your answer.

This really has become complicated. Call it the pain of a NinjaTrader user. This is the whole story.

Objective: I just want to color a horizontal trading range on my with an indicator.

Step 1: Try DrawRegion(). Result: The Baloo - Speech Bubble look. No way to code away the convex shape of the left and right border. Abandoned.

Step 2: Try DrawRectangle(). Result: Trading range is correctly colored, but the color draws on top of the lines and text, making them invisible. With Zorder = -1, it is possible to place the colored range behind price, but all lines plotted from within the indicator are hidden by DrawRegion(), There is no way to differentiate the layer for the drawing object within an indicator. Abandoned.

Step 3: I decide to to write a new indicator, by exposing the required data via DataSeries and catch the values with the new indicator. The new indicator works well, collects the data and by using Zorder = -1 within the indicator code, I can now plot the trading range behind all other lines and text. I am temporarily happy as my indicator works for the opening range, which is calculated from intraday data. Unfortunately, I also want to display pivot ranges, with the pivot indicator running in DailyBars mode collecting the Kinetick data. I am quite disappointed, as I understand that my newly coded indicator cannot use the values from my pivots (or the NinjaTrader pivots) indicator. Abandoned

Step 4: I code an entirely new indicator calculating the pivots, pivot ranges and opening ranges from the instrument sessions and offsets just to display the opening, night session and pivot range. I have been successful, but it took me an entire day just to colour an existing range on my chart. There is room for improvement.

Chart attached.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Harry - I'm sorry for the frustrations getting this to work the way you expected, we're checking into the issues you unfortunately stumbled upon on the way.

[Harry]

Thanks for answering.

Many Draw() methods need a clean up.

-> had lots of issues with diamonds in NT 6.5., they were quick to add, but I had to wait several minutes to remove them
-> many of them decorating the right margin of the chart
-> speech bubble look of draw region
-> rectangles cannot be taught to plot behind price

I think it is not a great deal to improve this.

Hi Harry - I'm sorry for the frustrations getting this to work the way you expected, we're checking into the issues you unfortunately stumbled upon on the way.

[Harry]

Not transparent

Here is another example.

I use the DrawRectangle() method to draw rectangles on my chart.

Another problem is this. If I set one of the serialized colours to transparent via indicator dialogue box, the rectangles are not transparent at all. All other colours that I select show as expected. Please advise.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi Harry, I'm seeing the same here on a black background - will clarify why this is the case. Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Harry, to add - what opacity's were you using for your rectangles drawn? My demo below in on 0.

[Harry]

I used the same opacity for three different colours, opacity was set to 5. I expected that transparent is transparent even with opacity 5!

Harry, to add - what opacity's were you using for your rectangles drawn? My demo below in on 0.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Harry,

Unfortunately development has informed me that is simply how .NET handles opacity on transparent colors.

[Harry]

Thank for your answer. I can use a workaround such as

 
if (rangeColor == Color.Transparent)
opacity = 0;

so it is no problem.

Harry,

Unfortunately development has informed me that is simply how .NET handles opacity on transparent colors.