DrawText() Font Problem

[JackW]

In the region Variables section I have added:
private System.Drawing.Font textFont, Arrow;

In the Initialize() section I have added:
Font textFont = new Font("Lucida Console", 8);
Font Arrow = new Font("Wingdings 3", 8);

Then in the OnBarUpdate() section I added the following:

DrawText("Tag1", false, "u", 0, High[0], 0, Color.Black, Arrow, StringAlignment.Far, Color.Transparent, Color.Transparent,0);

The text prints, but it uses the default font, instead of the font I specified.

I can force it to use the desired font by specifying it directly in the DrawText statement as below, but I shouldn't have to do that. Where am I going wrong?

DrawText("Tag1", false, "u", 0, High[0], 0, Color.Black, new Font("Wingdings 3", 8), StringAlignment.Far, Color.Transparent, Color.Transparent,0);

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello JackW,

Thank you for writing in.

You should assign the font within region variables section rather than in Initalize, for example,

private System.Drawing.Font Arrow = new Font("Wingdings 3", 8);

Which will allow you to pass that font into your drawtext method within onbar update.

A reference example which demonstrates this, Changing fonts for draw objects, can be found at the following link,

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=19170

Please let us know if you need further assistance.