panels

[FCatan]

Hi, I have an oscillator that runs in a bottom panel on my NT chart. Based on certain conditions in this oscillator, I want to display test on my main price screen. How do I accomplish that? thanks!

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello FCatan,

Thank you for your note.

You can develop a custom indicator to check the values of the Oscillator and then display text on the Chart Panel.

For information on developing an indicator please visit the following link: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...indicators.htm

You can draw on the price panel using DrawText(), you can find information on this at the following link: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...7/drawtext.htm

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[FCatan]

tx but I guess I wasn't clear. I wrote the oscillator indicator that is located on panel 2 on my chart. From that indicator I want to display text under certain bars on the price chart. How can I draw text on the price panel from that indicator?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello FCatan,

Thank you for your response.

Use DrawOnPricePanel: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...pricepanel.htm

[FCatan]

OK ... I may be missing this. I have a histogram that prints in panel 2 ... when the histo bar exceeds a certain threshold, I want to display text under the bar on the price panel. When I set DrawOnPricePanel to true, it draws everything on the price panel. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

[Harry]

OK ... I may be missing this. I have a histogram that prints in panel 2 ... when the histo bar exceeds a certain threshold, I want to display text under the bar on the price panel. When I set DrawOnPricePanel to true, it draws everything on the price panel. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

If you set DrawOnPricePanel to "true" in the Initialize() section of the indicator, everything is drawn on the price panel. This is as expected.

What you may try is to switch the panel inside OnBarUpdate():

....
DrawOnPricePanel = true;
....
// draw everything you wish to draw on the price panel
....
DrawOnPricePanel = false;
....
// draw everything you wish to draw on the indicator panel
....

Avoid switching back and forth between the two panels, and it should work.