Anchor Y value from Text object

[squarewave]

I'm just trying to store the Anchor Y price value so I can store it as a variable...

// this works:
DrawObjects["theObjectName"].Tag
DrawObjects["theObjectName"].GetType().Name

// doesn't work:
DrawObjects["theObjectName"].Anchor.Price

I spent hours searching & reading through these articles, but too noob to figure it out... this got me close but still no luck:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/NT%20HelpGuide%20English.html?idrawingtool.htm

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello squarewave,

Thanks for your post.

I have attached a simple example script to this forum post that you could view which demonstrates getting the Anchor.Price from a Draw.Text() object drawn on the chart.

Or, you could loop through the DrawObjects collection to find specific Draw objects and then print out the Anchor.Price of that specific Draw object. An example of this could be found in the third sample code section of the DrawObjects help guide page below.

DrawObjects: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...sub=DrawObject

[squarewave]

Thanks, I'll go through that script to see what I can learn & improve on!

Since my initial post I kept trying to figure it out, and finally got something that worked. The main issue was the text was being loaded onto my chart from a different indicator that I didn't code & don't have access to.

But the below worked, although not sure how efficient it is since it loops through several anchors but they are all the same value in this scenario so it works for me:

foreach (ChartAnchor anchor in DrawObjects["theObjectName"].Anchors)
{ myVariable = anchor.Price; }

[squarewave]

Adding this here for future personal reference, I was trying to reference a tag name in a strategy I was coding. I had manually transcribed the tag name from the chart (since I needed an objects anchor value derived from an indicator that I didn't write or have access to).

But my code to reference the tag name wouldn't work. Eventually I figured out the tag name that I had manually transcribed from the chart tricked me (or rather the stupid font).

The chart font made the stinking (i) look like an (L)... except it was capital (I) mistaken for lower case (l)

Finally figured it out after troubleshooting for a bit, eventually solved by using the code below to output the tag name to output window, where I could actually copy & paste the tag name:

// fetch all draw object items (type name & object tag name)
foreach ( DrawingTool draw in DrawObjects.ToList() )
{ Print( "Type = " + draw.GetType().Name + " // Tag = " + draw.Tag ); }