Can an indicator know what panel it is in?

[David Lean]

Are there methods that offer reflection type properties?

Within the indicator I'd like to know:-
1) What Panel is it running in?
2) Is it running in more than one panel?

Why?
My Indicator raises Alerts & Plays sounds. If I have the same indicator in 3 different panels I only want one generating that info. (I have properties that make it look different in the other panels, eg: Background ribbon turned on when not in Price panel. extra lines that can be turned on / off) Orignally intended for debugging It actually helps trade.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi David, unfortunately accessing those properties is not supported. As workaround you could create inputs to enter which background color for example is used on the chart and then check those off in your code to adjust indicator display.

[David Lean]

Alternate idea

Thanks,
Creating a parameter the user can set did the trick.

Another approach that worked well was to override the PLOT event & look at the "bounds.Top" parameter. Checking to see if it is greater than usual, ie 5. That let me determine that I wasn't in the PricePanel & thus set a global boolean that could be accessed by other routines.


A slightly more complex version of that allowed me to create an array of "bounds.Top" values, again set once in the Plot event. Given that the user may resize the Panel I also needed to look at .Bottom & remove old values. The Indicators array was also handy for this purpose.