Where to put your helper class

[balancenv]

Assume I have quite some just generic C# help classes shared among indicators and strategies. Where do you put them to avoid duplicate copies with maintenance nightmare?

A related question is, how can one make use of all the nice features in C#??

For example I have a helper class called waveState that's something like :

 public class WaveST
        {
            public Pt P1, P2, P3, P4, P5;
            public Boolean bull;
            public Boolean meaty;
            public List<Pt> Bumps;
            public Cwave cw;
            public Boolean inLTF;

            public void Draw(int cr, Boolean e, Color c) ... 

I can't even reference DrawLine in this code without causing something like 'can't reference outer class etc etc.

So how shall one go about solving this type of issues, and how would you implement really useful helper classes without stuffing everything into userdefinemethods?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

balancenv, unfortunately what we could support here is working with the UserDefinedMethods options available (split per strategy and indicators). I leave this open so the community could chime in with their thoughts.

[koganam]

Assume I have quite some just generic C# help classes shared among indicators and strategies. Where do you put them to avoid duplicate copies with maintenance nightmare?

A related question is, how can one make use of all the nice features in C#??

For example I have a helper class called waveState that's something like :

 public class WaveST
        {
            public Pt P1, P2, P3, P4, P5;
            public Boolean bull;
            public Boolean meaty;
            public List<Pt> Bumps;
            public Cwave cw;
            public Boolean inLTF;
 
            public void Draw(int cr, Boolean e, Color c) ... 

I can't even reference DrawLine in this code without causing something like 'can't reference outer class etc etc.

So how shall one go about solving this type of issues, and how would you implement really useful helper classes without stuffing everything into userdefinemethods?

If you want to use NT Indicator methods in your helper class, then make the class inherit from the Indicator class.

Otherwise, make it a partial class of Indicator.

[balancenv]

Thanks for the note. But I can't do that because there'll be thousands of instances of those wave state objects and indicator is just too heavy to carry...

I figure out a solution is to include the indicator as a data member in these helper class to gain access its methods.