Get current time frame from chart

[daglas]

Dear friends.
How can I get information about current time frame from the chart and convert this value into string? Because I need to read some special information from files for each times frames, and users can choose time frame on the chart.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi daglas,

You can use BarsPeriod.Id and BarsPeriod.Value for this.

[koganam]

Dear friends.
How can I get information about current time frame from the chart and convert this value into string? Because I need to read some special information from files for each times frames, and users can choose time frame on the chart.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?barsperiod.htm

[TheATR]

public string TF_TO_STR_PARSER(BarsPeriodType _tf_type, int _tf_magnitude)
{
/*

BarsPeriodType.Second --- 3
BarsPeriodType.Minute --- 4
BarsPeriodType.Day --- 5
BarsPeriodType.Week --- 6
BarsPeriodType.Month --- 7
BarsPeriodType.Year --- 8
*/
string tf_str = "";
if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Tick)
{
tf_str = "TICK";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Second)
{
tf_str = "SEC";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Minute)
{
tf_str = "MIN";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Day)
{
tf_str = "DAY";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Week)
{
tf_str = "WEEK";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Month)
{
tf_str = "MONTH";
}
else if(_tf_type == BarsPeriodType.Year)
{
tf_str = "YEAR";
}
else
{
tf_str = "ERR";
}
return _tf_magnitude.ToString() + " " + tf_str;
}