Typical way to draw information from variables on a chart?

[marty087]

Great Stuff. Much Appreciate!

[marty087]

Couple indies in here, but "FP_LinkonAdvisors" is the indie that puts text on the chart.

Actually I can't thank u enough..... You code had all the answers I was looking for!! very kind of you to share.

[forrestang]

Woot!

Glad it worked out for ya.

[ij001]

One question about DrawText().

Can this be tied to a quadrant on the chart like the DrawTextFixed() can? In looking through all of the inputs for it, it seems like you can position the DrawText() function a certain number of bars back as the x position, and a certain height up as the y position. I can see how this would change depending on the scaling of the charts.

The DrawTextFixed() on the other hand will allow you to simply place your text box in a quadrant, i.e. upper left, lower right etc.

Did you ever figure this out? I have exactly the same question.

[forrestang]

Did you ever figure this out? I have exactly the same question.

Well, at the time I wanted to be able to position the text in a position on a chart, i.e. some quadrant, along with being able to control font and color of the text. It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly neither the DrawText() or the DrawTextFixed() function would allow me to do both of those things simultaneously.

So I wound up overriding the plot function altogether. That sample script I posted allowed me to control the text, in position and color exactly the way I wanted.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showpost.php?p=288369&postcount=30