DrawText Help wrong

[Lost Trader]

DrawText(string tag, bool autoScale, string text, int barsAgo, double y, double yPixelOffset, Color textColor, Font font, StringAlignment alignment, Color outlineColor, Color backColor, int opacity)

The online v6.5 help says yPixelOffset is a double, but NOT. won't compile unless it is an int.

Is there a way in OnBarUpdate() to get the Height of a text string in pixels?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Thank you for the find.

Unfortunately we do not support measuring the height of the text string.

[Lost Trader]

Thanks, Josh. I am learning to expect that answer! :-)

However, your own DrawText function has offset variables in both Ticks & pixels -- so some method of setting these parameters based on the current chart & text string is reasonable - one could even say it would be simple common sense to provide a way to determine these settings via code since you provided them.

I know this comes up repeatedly from tie to time - please put something in NT7 to address proper positioning in the OnBarUpdate method. It does not make sense to force folks to override the plot everytime when all they want is to position the text one font height away from the bar.

[velocity]

You Got My Vote !!!!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thank you for your input Lost Trader.