Wingdings Arrow not working

[omololu]

Wingdings is not showing arrows; instead, it displays text as shown in the attached screenshot. I must be missing something.

omololu

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello omololu,

Thank you for your post.

Can you explain what you mean by a "wingdings arrow"? Are you using Draw.Text with wingdings symbols?

You can always use Draw.ArrowUp, Draw.ArrowDown, and Draw.ArrowLine for arrows as well.

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

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

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

Please let us know if we can assist further.

[omololu]

Hello omololu,

Thank you for your post.

Can you explain what you mean by a "wingdings arrow"? Are you using Draw.Text with wingdings symbols?

You can always use Draw.ArrowUp, Draw.ArrowDown, and Draw.ArrowLine for arrows as well.

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

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

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

Please let us know if we can assist further.

Thanks Gaby for yout quick response,

Yes, I'm using Draw.Text with wingdings symbols. It was correctly drawing the Wingdings arrow symbols until recently when I had to setup NT8 on a different Windows 10 machine.

My codes are as follow;

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private NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont wingDigns3Font = new NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont("Wingdings 3", 7) { Size = 30, Bold = true };
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Draw.Text(this, "arrowsignal", true, "J",0 , Low[1] - _arrowsOffset * TickSize, 0, _arrowUpColor, wingDigns3Font, TextAlignment.Center, Brushes.Transparent, Brushes.Transparent, 0);


Regards.

omololu

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello omololu,

Thank you for your response.

This is likely an issue isolated to your current PC, given it was working on your previous set up and I am able to get the code you shared to work on my PC as well. Troubleshooting what is different with your PC set up would be out of our scope of support, however we recommend making sure you have this font installed.

One thing to be aware of this could potentially also happen on other people's computers if you plan to share this script. The user would need to have Wingdings font installed as well.

To draw a custom arrow, custom rendering it with a triangle and rectangle or path geometry would be the best approach.

Custom Rendering using Sharp DX: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...LinesAndShapes

SampleCustomRender in the platform also demonstrates custom rendering lines, text, and shapes.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.