Processing line breaks for Hand Drawn Horizontal and Ray lines

[llanqui]

Hello,

I had an indicator in NT7 that is partially ported to NT8.

What it did was give me an alert when a hand-drawn Horizontal or Ray lines were crossed. It is working in NT8 for horizontal lines but not Rays.

This is the code that searches for the lines

foreach (IDrawObject draw in DrawObjects)
{
// select User Drawn Horizontal or Ray Lines, and BLACK
if (draw.UserDrawn
&& (draw.DrawType == DrawType.Ray
|| draw.DrawType == DrawType.HorizontalLine))
{
//Sets some line properties programatically
ILine ThisLine = (ILine) draw;
if (ThisLine.Pen.Color == Color.Black
|| ThisLine.Pen.Color == Color.Cyan)
{
ProcessDrawObject(draw, ThisLine);
}
}
}

The ProcessDrawObject method receives the ILine object and then gets the anchors

//Sets right and left points depending on how line is drawn.
if (ThisLine.StartBarsAgo > ThisLine.EndBarsAgo)
{
LeftY = ThisLine.StartY;
RightY = ThisLine.EndY;
LeftBarsAgo = ThisLine.StartBarsAgo;
RightBarsAgo = ThisLine.EndBarsAgo;
}

else if (ThisLine.StartBarsAgo < ThisLine.EndBarsAgo)
{
LeftY = ThisLine.EndY;
RightY = ThisLine.StartY;
LeftBarsAgo = ThisLine.EndBarsAgo;
RightBarsAgo = ThisLine.StartBarsAgo;
}

then I can test for a line cross...

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in NT7 this worked for both Ray and Horizontalline....

a search in the NT8 online help does not produce resulte for "ILine".... ???

could it be that in NT8 a HorizontalLine and Ray have different interface objects?

1) if so, what is the interface object for Ray

and

2) where can I find them in the online doc?

thanks

[llanqui]

Ok, stupid me....the above code is for NT7...I had that open in the NT8 Editor (no compile option)................

I guess the question would be, are there code snippets that can show me how to access the anchor data for a Ray?

[llanqui]

seems it is this

DrawingTools.Ray thisRay = draw as DrawingTools.Ray;

double LeftY = thisRay.StartAnchor.Price;
double RightY = thisRay.EndAnchor.Price;

int LeftBarsAgo = thisRay.StartAnchor.BarsAgo;
int RightBarsAgo = thisRay.EndAnchor.BarsAgo;

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello llanqui,

Thanks for your post.

That would be the correct way to get the Price and BarsAgo of the drawing object's StartAnchor and EndAnchor in NinjaTrader 8.

See the help guide documentation below for more information.

IDrawingTool: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...rawingtool.htm
DrawObjects: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...rawobjects.htm