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[brianlspriggs]

I'm trying to write a Moving Average Ribbon where I can choose the Plot count in the UI. I tried using a for() loop, but it seems this is not allowed at the Class level. Can someone give me some suggestions.

[brianlspriggs]

I have found you can add them dynamically. Is there any drawbacks for doing this?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello brianlspriggs,

As long as you are doing that from state.Configure it should be fine. You can use user inputs for AddPlot by using State.Configure instead of State.SetDefaults.

[brianlspriggs]

Thanks Jesse, that seems to work great.

Is there a way to hide certain values from the databox while making other values visible? I need the values from certain transparent plots to be visible but I do not need the values from the moving averages. I set {ShowTransparentPlotsInDataBox = true} but I cannot find any documentation on this matter.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello brianlspriggs,

This would be a case where you would have to use OnRender. You would want to use ShowTransparentPlotsInDataBox = false and set any plots which should not be in the data box to transparent leaving only the plots you wanted to see. Next you would have to use OnRender to re render the plot data instead of allowing the normal indicator to plot.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/onrender.htm?zoom_highlightsub=onrender

When using OnRender if you don't use the code:
base.OnRender(chartControl, chartScale);

from within OnRender that will make all plots on the chart invisible allowing you to use the plots to store data but not be seen. By doing this you can choose what you want to render from the existing plot data. The Pivots indicator and ZigZag do this to render in a custom way.

You can see the following indicator on the public user app share for an example of creating a path in OnRender, a path would be used to make any non standard shaped geometry like a Plot.

https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/user-app-share-download/ichimoku-cloud-indicator-nt8/