Dataseries not plotting problem (solved)

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This isn't a question, just logging for posterity something I learned. Maybe it will help someone in a future google search. I developed an indicator which has some additional dataseries which I would put values in on a certain bars.

This plotted fine and I continued work on my indicator. After a time I noticed that it was no longer drawing the dataseries dots as it had before although it was still drawing custom labels I drew via DrawText. I couldn't figure out what I had changed (if anything) to cause them to not draw. It was mysterious and driving me crazy.

Finally I realized that I had overridden the Plot method and I did not call the base.Plot. Adding the call to the base class's Plot method immediately fixed it.

public override void Plot(Graphics graphics,
Rectangle bounds, double min, double max)
{
// I had forgot the following line!!
base.Plot(graphics, bounds, min, max);
...
// your code

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This isn't a question, just logging for posterity something I learned. Maybe it will help someone in a future google search. I developed an indicator which has some additional dataseries which I would put values in on a certain bars.

This plotted fine and I continued work on my indicator. After a time I noticed that it was no longer drawing the dataseries dots as it had before although it was still drawing custom labels I drew via DrawText. I couldn't figure out what I had changed (if anything) to cause them to not draw. It was mysterious and driving me crazy.

Finally I realized that I had overridden the Plot method and I did not call the base.Plot. Adding the call to the base class's Plot method immediately fixed it.

Interesting... can you post a sample image of what it was before and after?

Of course, remove any logic related to your secrets..

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Sure this is before, without the call to base.Plot():



And this is the indicator after adding the call to base.Plot() (the dot is the dataseries with the plot style set to Dot):