How to refer plotbrushes by user-friendly plot name

[ttodua]

By default, I always use:

PlotBrushes[0][0] = ...
PlotBrushes[1][0] = ...

to set the color for specific line. But is there any other way, so if i have numerous :

AddPlot(..., "Name1");
AddPlot(..., "Name2");
AddPlot(..., "Name3");

...etc...

I could refer them by name ( not by numeric position) like:

PlotBrushes["Name1"][0] = ....

please submit feature request for something like this, so we didnt care about position numbers

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello TazoTodua,

Thanks for your post.

You can create int variables that you can name similar to the plots names and use those variables in PlotBrushes.

For example:

private int firstPlot = 0;
private int secondPlot = 1;

AddPlot(Brushes.Orange, "FirstPlot");
AddPlot(Brushes.Orange, "SecondPlot");

PlotBrushes[firstPlot][0] = Brushes.CornflowerBlue;
PlotBrushes[secondPlot][0] = Brushes.Green;

I will submit the requested convenience feature request and will update this thread when I have further information.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello TazoTodua,

The feature request has been assigned as SFT-4380, "Ability to use plot name in Plotbrushes[] instead of numeric index".

Thanks for your interest in improving NinjaTrader.

[ttodua]

ideally, that will be good if the Plot dataseries and PlotBrushes dataseries had a back-property (automatically implemented in IndicatorRenderBase or somewhere), like:

AddPlot(Brushes.White, "theName");

Values["theName"][0] = 123; //which will equal to Value[0][0] =123;
PlotBrushes["theName"][0]= Brushes.Red; // equal to PlotBrushes[0][0] = ..

so, there will be no need to use that "indexing" (which is quite inflexible when we add a new plot)... generally, it would be nice that indexing was replaced by named properties forever.
so, very simple modification is needed to be done in the internals of NT - the Values & PlotBrushes property should just check if string is used as reference and use the corresponding index automatically, so users shouldnt care of that.