How to cycle or randomize my drawing templates?

[yuenster]

I have a bunch of trend channel templates with different colors that I created and I want to either cycle or randomize the color template that's used whenever I draw trend channels instead of always using the default template. I'm fairly certain it can be done by editing the code but I am an absolute beginner at coding and was looking for some tips. I am on NinjaTrader 8.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello yuenster,

Thank you for your post.

If you would like to randomly select a Trend Channel drawing tool template or select a drawing tool template from a list of existing templates, you would need to use C# methods, such as Directory.GetFiles or Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension, to get the list of the files in the folder Documents\NinjaTrader 8 \templates\DrawingTool\TrendChannel. Then you would read each file name to get the TrendChannel template name.

Please note we do not provide C# programming education services in our Support department. That said, you may find the publicly available links below to be helpful.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.directory.getfiles

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.path.getfilenamewithoutextension

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