B4 Indicator Description missing

[dalebru]

This was in B3 also, sorry I missed reporting it.

In NT 7 when I go to add an indicator, e.g. ADL, the dialog has a Label area that displays the contents of the Description attribute on the class, e.g. "The Accumulation/Distribution (AD) study attempts to..."

This doesn't seem to exist in NT 8. I see the description in the class Summary comments, but no Description attribute.

Is this an intentional change, or an oversight?
If intentional, how do you suggest we "tell" others what our indicators are for?

Thanks,
Dale

[NinjaTrader_EricB]

Hello dalebru,

Thank you for your post,

In the Indicators window, you will notice there is an "i" to the right of the Available list. Pressing this will then show the Description of the selected indicator in a pop-up box (please see attached screen shot).



Thank you for testing!

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

That's funny, me and another PM were literally just talking about this...

The class summary is currently not working which we're looking into and we're hopefully going to make some changes in this area in an upcoming release to give dev users in the NS Editor intelliprompt an idea of what is supported and not support for all NS methods including their descriptions from our help guide (including the system indicator methods)

To answer your question, to an End User, the NinjaScriptBase "Description" string will be shown in the Indicator Dialog when you press the "i" button

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/description.htm

If you want to let other programmers know, you'd still use the Summary which we hope to have fixed (but I'm not exactly sure what is broken right now so we may have to go back to the drawing board here)