How to make indicator display simple colored status

[Lonneman]

Hi, I just made my first indicator, which I want to display a red or green bar, according to a simple condition.

I managed to make it display a red or green block, but I would like it to look like the example with the black background.

How do I do it? Does anybody have an example?

Thanks

Christian

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the post and welcome to the NinjaTrader forums. For a black background, this can be set through the chart's Right Click > Properties screen.

If you want to set programatically, you can use:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/backcolor.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/backcolorall.htm

[Lonneman]

Thanks Ryan,

sorry if I wasn't clear enough - the black background was not the problem. I would like to get the indicator to post these narrow horizontal color bands seen in the example with the black background.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

It looks like it is conditionally changing background color. You can do that with the properties linked earlier.

if (Close[0] > Open[0])
BackColor = Color.Green;

else
BackColor = Color.Purple

[Lonneman]

That makes sense, I didn't think of that.

Thank you