DrawText being placed behind Bars

[rwbil]

Using DrawText at shown below

DrawText("MP" + CurrentBar, false,"-", 1, ((High[1] + Low[1]) /2),0, Color.Blue, new Font("Verdana", 20.0f), StringAlignment.Center,Color.Transparent,Color.Tra nsparent, 0);

To draw a "-" at the midpoint of a bar. But the +-+ is being placed behind the bars so you can barely see it, as shown below

http://screencast.com/t/KerwVDMyTV

How do you get it to be drawn in front of the bars

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the question.

This is known as the ZOrder.

Essentially the chart bars are actually drawing on top of the indicators drawing object, to resolve this there is actually no supported way of setting the ZOrder from script but there is a quick fix in the chart.

Simply select either the chart bars or the indicators plot so it is selected. Next using the Shift key and scroll wheel, hold shift and scroll with your mouse. You should see a small text box appear next to the cursor listing the z level. You can scroll until you see the bars go behind the other objects.

Please let me know if I may be of additional assistance.

[ninZa]

Using DrawText at shown below

DrawText("MP" + CurrentBar, false,"-", 1, ((High[1] + Low[1]) /2),0, Color.Blue, new Font("Verdana", 20.0f), StringAlignment.Center,Color.Transparent,Color.Tra nsparent, 0);

To draw a "-" at the midpoint of a bar. But the +-+ is being placed behind the bars so you can barely see it, as shown below

http://screencast.com/t/KerwVDMyTV

How do you get it to be drawn in front of the bars

Perhaps I remember this correctly. Please try making ZOrder a very big number. For example, in Initialize():

ZOrder = 40000;

Try changing the number until you have topmost texts.

Cheers,
Pi