Rectangle Plotting 2 days

[tonynt]

Hello,

from the helpguide and the forum I know how to plot a rectangle a specific time of day. But I can´t find the solution for plotting the rectangle with a start time > stop time of plotting. The start time is eg at 16:00 where it should start to plot and the stop time of plotting eg is 9:00.

Now I have from an indicator

int BarMinute = Time[1].Minute;
int BarHour = Time[1].Hour;
int BarDay = Time[1].Day;
int BarMonth = Time[1].Month;
int BarYear = Time[1].Year;
int start = CurrentBars[1]-Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(BarYear, BarMonth, BarDay, StartHour, StartMinute,0));
int stop = CurrentBars[1]-Bars.GetBar(new DateTime(BarYear, BarMonth, BarDay, StopHour, StopMinute,0));

if (xNow.Date==Times[0][0].Date && start >= 0 && stop <= 0 )
{Draw.Rectangle(this,"hl", true, new DateTime (BarYear,BarMonth, BarDay,StartHour, StartMinute,0), lowtz1, new DateTime (BarYear, BarMonth, BarDay,StopHour, StopMinute,0), hightz1, timecolor, timecolor, Opacity);}

What is to change please so that it plots the rectangle from yesterday 16:00 untill today 9:00 (for every day).

Thank you!
Tony

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello tonynt,

Thanks for your post.

I have a hard time following your code so here is an example that you can refer to on how to use DateTime to draw across the dates.

            if (Time[0].TimeOfDay == new TimeSpan(16,00,00))
            {
                end_Time = Time[0].AddDays(1);  // draw to the next day
                end_Time = end_Time.AddHours(-7);  // 16:00 - 7 hours = 9:00 AM

                Draw.Rectangle(this,"test"+Time[0], Time[0], Low[0], end_Time, High[0], Brushes.Gold);                
            }

This was written based on that you would have a tick at 4:00 PM. If you are using non time based bars or are trying to draw exactly at the end of a session you may want to use a range of time and then bool logic so you are only drawing once per time period.

Notes:
end_Time was created as private DateTime end_Time;
end_Time is seeded with the current bars Date and Time which would be 16:00 and whatever date it is.
Using .AddDays(1) will add a day to end_Time which then makes the end_Time have the next day date
Using AddHours(-7) subtracts 7 hours from the time of 16:00 which makes the end_Time at 9:00 AM