Accessing the active workspace name

[NickyD]

Hi,

What is the best way to access the active NT workspace name in an addon that inherits from AddOnBase?

I've been using WorkspaceOptions.GetActiveWorkspaceFromXml are there other ways?

Thanks,
Nick

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello NickyD,

That would be the only way that I am aware of however that is not currently a documented method. I would be unable to say what the overall expectation is for that method to know if what you tried was valid or not. If you have a sample of what you tried and it is not working in some way I could take a look to get a better idea if that may be expected in the specific use case. I would need to know the specific steps you used.

[NickyD]

I was looking at WorkspaceOptions.GetActiveWorkspaceFromXml during OnWindowCreated, but I think OnWindowCreated is getting invoked far more than I realized and in a sequence I was not expecting when switching back and forth between workspaces (it seems to be invoked on the workspace I was closing/switching off of). So I don't think I was always getting the correct context I wanted because I wasn't handling the logic correctly.


Shortly after I made the post, I of course stumbled across this:

// the main chart window
chartWindow = window as Gui.Chart.Chart;

// if not a chart, do nothing
if (chartWindow == null) {
Print("chartWindow null");
return;
}

[B]chartWindow.GetWorkspaceName()  [/B]

This is working better for me, so I am going with it for the time being.

Thanks.

[jeronymite]

I would suggest using WorkspaceOptions.GetActiveWorkspaceFromXml as it is not dependent on a particular type of window. It works in Strategies and AddOns. Haven't tried it in Indicators, but I expect it would work there too.