Listen for Alerts in Ninjascript

[vlc]

Is there a way to listen for or otherwise capture all alerts generated by the various active indictors? I would like to parse the string in my script in order to make a decision about opening a new script generated trade.
Something like a getAlert() method? Similar to a method that would get the last error.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

vlc, unfortunately this is not supported.

[vlc]

Does "not supported" mean not possible?
I think this would make many black-box indicators much more useful for creating new scripts.

Maybe this can be added to a wish-list please. Can users vote for a feature?

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

Not supported doesn't necessarily mean it isn't possible although I'm not sure how you would go about "intercepting" alerts. I will forward your suggestion.

[mrlogik]

vlc,

If the black box indicator changes the color of the price bar, you can read the color using BarColor from a custom indicator. This is how I get around some black box limitations for my clients

[zweistein]

I attach to the Log event handler.
Your alerts should go through the log.
In certain situations like log messages for connection lost and order rejected I let me software send me an sms.

All unsupported, but very doable.

regards

www.zweisteintrading.eu

[vlc]

Thanks, I was really hoping this would have worked. But the messages I'm trying to capture are not from my own indicators and unfortunately the messages in the Alerts window are not in the normal NT7 log. Maybe there is another log somewhere or a setting to show all messages?

[zweistein]

So just hook to the alerts window....

also undocumented and doeable
andreas

[vlc]

OK... only prob then is the log event handler which you meant to attach isn't actually attached. Please try attaching again and I'll definitely try to get it working with the Alerts window.

[vlc]

Hmm... I didn't expect to get that info too... thanks. That will also be helpful for this. I really hope I can get all this to actually work.

[zweistein]

At first glance I see NinjaTrader.Globals.Alerts

This should get you going


regards

www.zweisteintrading.eu

[vlc]

Thanks. I'm very new to trying to code anything in NT. So please bare with me. How did you find that method?