Background color / Alerts - bug report

[Lost Trader]

I set an indicator's chart background color with this stmt (works fine):

 BackColor = prime<0 ? Color.FromArgb(bcAlpha,255,192,192) : Color.FromArgb(bcAlpha,192,255,192);

I wanted a pale color not in the standard named set. Now I want to have an Alert with the same background color - but instead of the nice soft rose or green, the alert background is a hard gray. I think this is a bug.

Does the color have to be expressed differently for alerts? The help implies it is the standard Color member...

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Should be able to work. Please try with something like Color.PaleGreen first and see if that works for your alerts.

[Lost Trader]

Please try with something like Color.PaleGreen first and see if that works for your alerts.

Oh yeah! I had been using Color.Yellow but decided to use that for something else. Then it seemed logical to color match the alert with the chart setting.

In comparing, there is a hint of color, but it is in NO way close to the chart color. The other named colors match. So should this, yes?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Suspect it has to do with the alpha you are using. Background alphaing on a chart is white. Background in the alert is not white and so the alpha influences the color differently.

[Lost Trader]

Background in the alert is not white and so the alpha influences the color differently.

Alert background is not white?! It certainly looks white if I do not override it and named colors come out the same.

What is it then so I can know how to set alpha differently?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Looks very gray to me. Just don't use any alpha-ing. Don't use any transparency. You will need to search up which level of alpha turns off transparency on google or MSDN since I would not know.

[Lost Trader]

Ah, now I understand. Because alert background set to Color.Empty always came out white, I thought that meant the background was white.

I'll experiment. Thanks!