How to tell whether a draw object exists?

[cassb]

Let's say I do a DrawRay("ABC"...) on my chart so that I have a draw object created. Is it possible to query to see if that object exists on the chart? I just want a true/false property or method to tell me if it exists or not.

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

cassb,

Unfortunately not. Not in 6.5. In 7 you can programmatically access draw objects.

[marketmasher]

Let's say I do a DrawRay("ABC"...) on my chart so that I have a draw object created. Is it possible to query to see if that object exists on the chart? I just want a true/false property or method to tell me if it exists or not.

Thanks!

I looked for that too, but I ended up creating a tag (string or numeric) that I then check the value of to see if an object currently exists.

I would really like to access a manually drawn object's properties (start/end value, bar numbers, date and time, etc) through program code - hoping that is possible in ver 7.

(edit - looks like my wish comes true in 7!)

[cassb]

cassb,

Unfortunately not. Not in 6.5. In 7 you can programmatically access draw objects.

OK, in v7, how do you tell if a draw object exists, using the tag to look it up?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

cassb,

Please make a new post in the V7 section of the forums and we can help you out there. That way other people looking for it can also find the answers. Thank you.

[neoikon]

cassb,

Please make a new post in the V7 section of the forums and we can help you out there. That way other people looking for it can also find the answers. Thank you.

If a new thread is started elsewhere, it would be nice to have a link there...

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

The post you revived is about 2 years old.

There is a lot more up to date information available on our forum then this thread.

Please be sure to search our forums or feel free to open a new ticket and one of our NinjaScript techs will help you find the information you need.

In your case please see the below references and let me know if any questions:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/idrawobject.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3419

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=18995

-Brett

[neoikon]

Hello,

The post you revived is about 2 years old.

There is a lot more up to date information available on our forum then this thread.

Thank you for the response. I got here from a search only to find the user to be directed to take the thread somewhere else. Which was a frustrating dead end on this topic without a resolution.

The question I was looking to have answered is if there was an easy way to check if an object exists... in particular in v7. It seems that just looping through all objects is the only way.

Thanks for the links! I will check them out.

Daniel

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Hello,

No problem, don't be afraid to ask questions we are here to help.

FYI. -> We don't make it standard practice anymore to have a user recreate a thread.

-Brett

[cassb]

Hi -- sorry neoikon, that thread Josh asked me to create is here:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=22872