PointF and Intellisense question

[ETFVoyageur]

I'm having trouble dealing with PointF. I get the compiler error:

The type or namespace name 'PointF' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

PointF is in System.Drawing, but knowing that does not seem to help me.

• Intellisense in the NinjaScript editor does not show Drawing under System -- but Intellisense in Visual Studio does show it. (Why are the two different?)
• Intellsense in Visual Studio also shows System.Drawing.PointF.
• Adding a "using System.Drawing" line compiles, but does not solve the problem -- PointF is still not found.

What am I doing wrong?

[ETFVoyageur]

Similar problem -- the Pen class. The code I am porting calls Pen.Dispose(). System.Windows.Media.Pen has no Dispose() method, so I presume I should use System.Drawing.Pen. That exists and has a Dispose() method, according to both Microsoft documentation and Visual Studio intellisense. However, when I explicitly qualify Pen as System.Drawing.Pen the NinjaScript compiler says Pen does not exist in the System.Drawing namespace.

I tried one obvious thing -- closing NinjaTrader and then restarting it. Same problem.

Question: what Pen should I be using?

Why does the NinjaScript system disagree with Microsoft on System.Drawing and its contents?

Am I, perhaps, running into .NET versioning issues? I doubt that because Visual Studio and the NinjaScript editor should agree and they do not agree.

[ETFVoyageur]

I think the answer is that I need to get caught up -- System.Drawing is not used by NT8. I need to convert my code to SharpDX.

I still do not understand why the NinjaScript editor and Visual Studio Intellisense do not agree, though.

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello ETFVoyageur,

Thank you for your post.

Correct, NinjaTrader 8 uses System.Windows.Media instead of System.Drawing. Visual Studio likely is aware of the System.Drawing namespace however it is not included NinjaTrader 8 which is why you are seeing it in VS but not NT.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.