Is SlotIndex == BarIndex?

[JohnSteinberg]

Hi,

Just a quick question. I have a rectangle (System.Windows.Rect) of which I know the left and right X positions. To see which bars on my chart this represent, I do a chartControl.GetSlotIndexByX(myRect.X) for example. A couple of questions on this:

• Why does the above method take an int as a parameter? Surely a mouse click for example is very rarely on exactly an int value on the chart
• The method returns a double. Is the int part of this value the same as the BarIndex?

I am trying to determine what range of bars in my chart the rectangle spans, hence my question.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
John Steinberg

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the post.

I have reviewed the syntax and currently there is no exposed method specifically for what you are intending to use this for. Rather than getting a Bar index, this gets the bars Slot or space allocated for it. I had provided an example to development and this item was added as issue NTEIGHT-10552.

There will be a specific method to correctly return an index of a bar from a given x value.This should be noted in the change log in the upcoming release.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[JohnSteinberg]

Thank you

Hi Jesse,

Thank you very much for the reply an support. I will be looking at upcoming release notes for the method.

Regards,
John