Hiding Drawing objects

[ballboy11]

Can one Hide Drawing objects in the properties section for an indicator?

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello ballboy11,

Thank you for your note.

Within the properties section of an indicator you can set visible to false, which will hide the indicator from the chart, however there is no default option to hide only the drawing objects.
You could easily create a user input bool which would draw or not draw drawing objects, which you could toggle on or off from the indicator properties dialog.

I put together a sample script.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[ballboy11]

Thank you I understand about hiding with boolean, but if i right click a drawing object it will show the list of all the drawing object tag names. I want to hide all the tag names.

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello ballboy11,

This would not be possible however I will submit a feature request for this.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

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Has ninja implemented this? how do I hide all drawing objects on my chart and also hide all indicators? anyway at all possible to perform this task without deleting them all? Thanks,

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello 3d2t.trading

Thank you for your reply.

This has not as of yet been implemented. However, you could create an indicator or addon that could hide your drawing objects and indicators. Here's a quick example. Note that in this case, to turn everything back to visible, you would need to check this indicator's visible toggle as well as uncheck MakeInvisible for the objects to be made visible again. You could use a similar approach in an add on that adds a button to the chart instead if you like.

    public class VisibleToggle : Indicator
    {
        protected override void OnStateChange()
        {
            if (State == State.SetDefaults)
            {
                Description                                    = @"Enter the description for your new custom Indicator here.";
                Name                                        = "VisibleToggle";
                Calculate                                    = Calculate.OnBarClose;
                IsOverlay                                    = true;
                DisplayInDataBox                            = true;
                DrawOnPricePanel                            = true;
                DrawHorizontalGridLines                        = true;
                DrawVerticalGridLines                        = true;
                PaintPriceMarkers                            = true;
                ScaleJustification                            = NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart.ScaleJustification.Right;
                //Disable this property if your indicator requires custom values that cumulate with each new market data event. 
                //See Help Guide for additional information.
                IsSuspendedWhileInactive                    = true;
                MakeInvisible                    = false;
            }
            else if (State == State.Configure)
            {
            }
        }

        protected override void OnBarUpdate()
        {
            if (MakeInvisible == true)
            {
                foreach (DrawingTool draw in DrawObjects.ToList())
                {   
                  draw.IsVisible = false;
                }

                foreach (Indicator indi in ChartControl.Indicators.ToList())
                {
                    indi.IsVisible = false;
                }
            }
            else if (MakeInvisible == false)
            {
                foreach (DrawingTool draw in DrawObjects.ToList())
                {   
                  draw.IsVisible = true;
                }

                foreach (Indicator indi in ChartControl.Indicators.ToList())
                {
                    indi.IsVisible = true;
                }
            }
        }

        #region Properties
        [NinjaScriptProperty]
        [Display(Name="MakeInvisible", Order=1, GroupName="Parameters")]
        public bool MakeInvisible
        { get; set; }
        #endregion

    }

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