New Color saving

[flxxx]

Hi, when I try to mix a new color and click "add color" it doesn´t save the setting. The 16x free spots keep being "white". How can I save a custom color?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Where specifically in NT charts is this? What color are you try to change.

[flxxx]

Whatever color you like to change bars, lines, etc.

Example:

You open Indicators, choose one indicator, click on choose color, click left on user defined (in german benuterdefiniert), choose one of the 16 white boxes on the bottom, make a right click, choose your colour (for example by RGBs), click "add color". Then the indicator gets your custom color but if I want to change the next plot, I have to manually input my RGBs again. Aren´t the 16 empty spots there for saving custom colors? How can I save a custom color to use it several times easily?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Unfortunately there is no default setting or saving for this custom color.

However you can use a chart template or workspace to save your custom indicator colors.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/ManagingWorkspaces.html

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/Templates.html

[flxxx]

Unfortunately there is no default setting or saving for this custom color.

However you can use a chart template or workspace to save your custom indicator colors.

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/HelpGuideV6/ManagingWorkspaces.html

http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...Templates.html

Thx, could you please forward this to your development department? I think the intension of these 16x empty spots was to save custom colors, it might need only a small extra effort to make it happen. Thx!

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Hi flxxx, yes I will forward your suggestion to development! Thanks!

[flxxx]

Just wanted to let you know that I found out that it works when going through the chart properties bar color selection. It´s saving the custom colors in the empty spots (but only as long as the "Chart Properties" are opened). Unfortunatly it doesn´t work in indicator properties.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for letting us know, we will take a look at it!

[BradB]

Custom color in a Strategy.

What if I want to use a custom color in a Strategy. They are not saved in a workspace or template. I use different strategies as indicators for multiple time frame setups. Is there a way to specify a custom color in the "private color ....." variable as a default? This way I won't have to reload my custom color settings each morning for every chart that uses the strategy.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

BradB, the serialization of colors code sample should work in strategies as well, but applied strategies would not be saved with NinjaTrader 6.5 (7 will do this - http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/NT7/NinjaTrader7.html)

What about defining a default color for each Master instrument and timeframe in the code, this way the should be colored individually upon loading.

[BradB]

That's exactly what I want to do, but I want a custom color as the default.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

For a custom color you can define via ARGB values and this C# method - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....fromargb.aspx

[BradB]

That's exactly what I wanted, thanks.