what is happening on charts when the workspace is not the selected one?

[llanqui]

What is happening internally in Ninja when a workspace is "behind", that is not the one being displayed?

because I have one chart with a lot of draw objects, and when I bring that workspace from "behind" to "forefront", it seems it has to redraw all the draw object?

this sometimes causes quite a delay for the workspace / chart to normalize....it apparently is doing something....but it appears to be hanging / stuck

during that time some of the charts go black and there is no access via keyboard or mouse

this is not the case when the workspace first is opened, it needs time to load the charts, but it does not "hang"

the CPU does not spike

what is happening?

[NinjaTrader_Emily]

Hello llanqui,

Thank you for your post.

When a workspace is in the background due to another workspace being the open, active workspace, the background workspace is considered inactive. When a workspace is inactive, many parts of that workspace are suspended and will not calculate again until that workspace becomes the active workspace again. If your draw objects are from an indicator script, you could consider setting the IsSuspendedWhileInactive property of the indicator to false so that the indicator will continue to calculate OnBarUpdate() even if the chart/workspace is inactive:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/issuspendedwhileinactive.htm

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance.

[llanqui]

Ok, will check that, but I think all IsSuspendedWhileInactive is set to false