DrawText enhancement

[arbuthnot]

Hi everyone

I only recently discovered that you can make DrawText a lot more sophisticated. The following code works very nicely in an indicator of mine:

DrawText("Text0", true, 0.ToString(), -2, P0, 0, Color.Black, new Font ("Arial", 10, FontStyle.Bold),
StringAlignment.Center, Color.Black, Color.Yellow, 10);

This produces a box, with a yellow background, into which the digit just fits.

What I'd like to do is widen the box, effectively putting a 'space' on either side of the '0' so the box is widened. I've experimented but to no avail.

I'd much appreciate any suggestions as to how to do this.

[NinjaTrader_CalH]

Hello Arbuthnot,

This is not possible with the DrawText() but possible with your own custom plotting using the Plot() method.

You can view a sample of this by going to Tools -> Edit NinjaScript -> CustomPlotSample

[arbuthnot]

Thanks very much, Cal, as always.

I've had a look at 'CustomPlotSample' and it is super-sophisticated but at least I now know how it can be done - at least, in theory!

Cheers,

Ed