Testing for null Time object

[molecool]

Not sure this is really an NT8 issue but I'm posting it here as I'm refactoring some older code in NT8. Basically I wrote myself a Print method with PrintLevels - similar to LogLevels. I'm plotting a lot of context for every print call I'm making, part of it is the Time[0].

Only problem I'm running into is that sometimes Print(value, PrintLevel) is being called during the initialization process. And Time[0] throws one of these:

Error on calling 'OnStateChange' method: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Not good. I'm trying to test for it like this:

String time = (Time == null || Time.Count == 0) ? "" : Time[0].ToString();

Not helping though - still getting that exception. Anyone know how to properly test for this? Obviously this doesn't come up often as usually nobody calls Time[0] before the bars are flowing.

Thanks in advance.

[molecool]

Never mind - I figured it out. This is my solution:

String time = "";

if (State != State.SetDefaults && State != State.Configure && State != State.DataLoaded 
&& Time != null  && Time.Count > 0) {
	time = Time[0].ToString();
}

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello molecool,

Thank you for your post.

Glad you were able to resolve this matter.