Drawing in Indicator panel

[Tremblinghandtrader]

Hi

I am stumped as to how to get an indicator to draw not on the price panel but in its own panel. The code is just a simple narrow range indicator but I want it to print "NR4" in a separate price panel not on the main panel.

This is the code,

{      
            if (CurrentBar < 4) return;
            
            range1 = Math.Abs(High[0]-Low[0]);
            range2 = Math.Abs(High[1]-Low[1]);
            range3 = Math.Abs(High[2]-Low[2]);
            range4 = Math.Abs(High[3]-Low[3]);
                    
            if( range1 < range2    && range1 < range3    && range1 < range4)    
                
            {
                DrawText("NR4"+CurrentBar,"NR4",0, Low[0] - 100, Color.BlueViolet);
                
            }      
            } 

How do I get it to draw in its own panel?

And also if you have a value such as in the above example of range1 , range2 etc how do you use the DrawText method to also draw the value on the chart?

[J_o_s]

How do I get it to draw in its own panel?

I use the following code snippet, but I don't know if that is "the correct" way. Perhaps you find it useful though:

protected override void Initialize()
{
DrawOnPricePanel = false; // don't draw in the price panel
} 

Regards,

[Tremblinghandtrader]

Yep that was it. I did try that but didn't change the the Y plot values so they showed in the price panel!

Thanks.

Just need to figure out how to plot values as text now.

[J_o_s]

Ah good that it helped.

Just need to figure out how to plot values as text now.

Perhaps you could use Convert.ToString() ?

For example:

DrawText("NR4"+CurrentBar, Convert.ToString(range1), 0, Low[0] - 100, Color.BlueViolet); 

Regards,

[Tremblinghandtrader]

Perhaps you could use Convert.ToString() ?

Thats it. Thanks heaps.