Help to stop the lines when it's crossing any bar on the chart

[ramanji]

Hello Ninja Trader Community,

I am currently drawing lines from one low value to another bar's low value. However, I've noticed that some lines are intersecting with the bars. I would like to prevent this from happening. Is there a way for me to determine whether a line is crossing any bars on the chart through code?

For example, I would like to prevent dotted lines from extending beyond the bars in the screenshots below.

Please assist me with this issue.

Thank you
Ramanji

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello ramanji,

Thanks for your post.

To clarify, do you want the dotted line to be drawn behind the bars?

The SetZOrder() method seen on the help guide page below could be used to accomplish this. Setting the ZOrder to -1 would make sure the object plots behind the chart bars.

SetZOrder: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help.../setzorder.htm
ZOrder: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...art_zorder.htm

Otherwise, from the image you shared, you are drawing the line to a point on the right side of the chart so the line overlapping bars would be expected based on the start and end points of the line.

If you wanted it to stop at that bar where the line crossed the bar, you would need to add custom logic to your script to specify that bar is the endpoint for that line instead of the endpoint at the right side of the chart in the image.