Increment time value of an IText object

[traderji]

Hi all

I am trying to update the time property of a text object on the chart.

This is what I wrote

[SIZE=2]        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
                
                foreach (IDrawObject draw in DrawObjects)
                {
                    if (draw.Tag.Contains("TextTag"))
                    {
                        IText text = (IText) draw;
                          if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Minute && BarsPeriod.Value == 5){text.Time.AddMinutes(5);}
                        if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Minute && BarsPeriod.Value == 15){text.Time.AddMinutes(15);}
                        if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Minute && BarsPeriod.Value == 30){text.Time.AddMinutes(30);}
                        if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Minute && BarsPeriod.Value == 60){text.Time.AddMinutes(60);}
                        if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Minute && BarsPeriod.Value == 240){text.Time.AddMinutes(240);}
                        if(BarsPeriod.Id == PeriodType.Day && BarsPeriod.Value == 1){text.Time.AddDays(1);}

                    }
                }
        }[/SIZE]

But text.Time.AddMinutes does not increment the time value? Any suggestions?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello traderji,

You can modify the properties of drawing objects like this only for code placed text, and not manually drawn text.

Then, you would use the IText interface directly rather than go through all items in DrawObjects collection.

If your code placed draw object is named text, you could use this example to move it 30 minutes. There needs to be some additional control here so that it's not simply moved 30 minutes after the first move.

if (Time[0] == text.Time.AddMinutes(30))
text.BarsAgo = 0;

[traderji]

Thanks Ryan. Cheers.