display in data box but not on chart

[cre8able]

I am doing cycle counts on the Stoch. I've written an indicator that plots the stochastic the way I want.

I would like to count cycles and display in the Data Box, but don't want them to display on the chart. Can I do that?

I can also write a separate indicator, but would prefer to have it as one indicator

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi cre8able, thanks for writing in.

You would need to have two scripts for this. The databox-only script will implement a plot and plot the values in OnBarUpdate normally, but will also override OnRender and simply return from OnRender to cancel out the plot rendering. This would make the plot show up in the data box but not the chart.

Please let me know if you have any further questions,
-ChrisL

[cre8able]

hey Chris.

thanks makes sense but how do I go about changing OnRender()?

like this?

protected override void OnRender(ChartControl char tControl, ChartScale chartScale)
{
Return();
}

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi cre8able, thanks for your reply.

That is correct, returning from the OnRender override will prevent the indicator from rendering any graphics to the chart so the plot will only show up in the data box.

[Triple_M]

Hello,

could you please provide, how exactly the code is written for this? I need the same. There is no exact example in the library for OnRender.

AND

another question, i would like to get a button in the chart, to switch it on and off, that the indicator is vivible if i would like to check something and when the strategy is running I don´t need to see it, a button would be the perfect solution.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Triple_M,

Welcome to the NinjaTrader forums!

cre8able had some some minor syntax errors that would prevent compile. The 'return' is not a method and is not capitalized.

protected override void OnRender(ChartControl chartControl, ChartScale chartScale)
{
    return;
}

See the heading 'Return values' in the microsoft programming guide on c#.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/methods

Attached is an example with the code from post # 3 corrected and copied and pasted in.
NoRenderPlotLineTest_NT8.zip