channel fill sharpDX

[stafe]

Better question might be which is less processor overhead a sharpDX channel fill or a Draw.Region() fill ?

i'm trying to find an example of, say, a keltner channel fill or a fill between two indicator lines that will help me understand how to set up a fill using sharpDX... iv'e successfully coded an indicator that draws lines and places text in the margin using the examples in "samplecustomrender" but i'm just not having any luck with a channel fill.... Better question might be which is less processor overhead a sharpDX channel fill or a Draw.Region() fill ?

on another note, trying to use the new help guide is quite difficult with the wasted space on the right 3rd of the page squishing all the pertinent info into a center 3rd of the page... a long thin column of text just doesn't work somehow...

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello stafe,

Thank you for your post.

Custom rendering is less resource intensive than using Draw methods. This is discussed here:

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/108684-sharpdx-vs-draw-method?p=836513#post836513

I would note though that we generally don't recommend one over the other unless you are using a large amount of drawing objects in your script. Then we would recommend custom rendering over using Draw methods.


Regarding your feedback on the site, this is feedback we've gotten before and we have passed it along to the team behind the Developer site. Thanks for your suggestion.

[stafe]

i had suspected as much, that SDX would be less resource intensive.... Do you have, or know of, any indicators, where i can see the code, that have a channel fill implemented in SDX ?

[NinjaTrader_Gaby]

Hello stafe,

The Ichimoku Cloud indicator on the User App Share demonstrates shading a region using SharpDX:

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

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[stafe]

Gabby thanks for the suggestion, but that example "icimokucloud" is beyond the beyond in complexity for a novice trying to code a channel fill... would the rendering code from another Ecosystem source work ? possibly the SharpDX region from the QT_IchimokuCloud indicator in the Ecosytem library - external link https://qtradez.com/free-stuff

i had attached it, but have since removed the code sample, it didn't format correctly for some reason

on another note... can you search all the ecosystem submissions to find if any of the community indicators have SharpDX calls in their code ? i'm looking through them 1 at a time starting with newest first...

[MiCe1999]

Maybe this will help: https://forum.ninjatrader.com/filedata/fetch?id=1336676