Drawing on a chart from an Addon

[NeimadTWC]

Hi dear traders & coders;

I'm currently developping an addon that should display technical analysis posted online.
I have a first indicator that POST all the drawing object on a database, on a JSON format.

The addon then retriew it an should draw it again to the chart.
The problem is that the draws object is not drawed at all when I apply an analysis
.

Here you can find the part of the code that cause me issues

   public IEnumerable<T> FindVisualChildren<T>(DependencyObject depObj) where T : DependencyObject
        {
            if (depObj != null)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
                {
                    DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);
                    if (child != null && child is T)
                        yield return (T)child;

                    foreach (T childOfChild in FindVisualChildren<T>(child))
                        yield return childOfChild;
                }
            }
        }

        public void ApplyAnalysis(Analysis analysis)
        {
            // Charts is a list of opened chart un the NinjaTrader session wich is automaticaly updated when a new chart is opened or destroyed
            bool finded = false;
            foreach (var window in this.Charts)
            {
                window.Dispatcher.Invoke(new Action(() =>
                {
                    foreach (ChartControl cc in FindVisualChildren<ChartControl>(window))
                    {
                        if (cc.Instrument.FullName == analysis.instrument)
                        {
                            finded = true;
                            DisplayAnalysis(cc, analysis);
                        }
                    }
                }));
            }

            if(!finded)
                MessageBox.Show($"Please open a chart of  {analysis.instrument} to apply the selected analysis");
        }

        private void DisplayAnalysis(ChartControl chart, Analysis analysis)
        {
            foreach (var draw in analysis.draws.Elements())
            {
                var toDraw = DrawingTool.RestoreFromXElement(draw, false);
                toDraw.CreateNewId();

                chart.ChartObjects.Add(toDraw);
                // may ViewModel is an IndicatorBase
                DrawingTool.SetDrawingToolCommonValues(toDraw, toDraw.Tag, true, this, false);
                toDraw.IsLocked = false;
            }
        }
​

Does anyone faced the same type of issue? If yes, I'd be more than thankfull for your help

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello NeimadTWC,

Drawing to a chart from an addon is not something that is supported by the normal NinjaScript api and its functions so whatever you come up with here would be a completely custom solution. I would not be able to provide any insight on this type of use case as you are using internal methods and drawing methods that are intended for drawing objects to use in their code to generate overloads for NinjaScript access from indicators or strategies.

[NeimadTWC]

Good day Jesse;

Thanks for your answer. It's a bit weird that an opened platform as Ninja could be in term of coding doesn't allow it.
BUT no issue then, I'll create an indicator that will communicate with the addon in a local websocket server

[NeimadTWC]

Correction.
A single shared static class between the addon and an indicator does the trick.