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[marty087]

Yes Dave, please write up this request. To clarify, the ability to programatically select the tab (to make visible) belonging to the chart running the indicator. This would be a nice feature for many more applications other that just screenshotting, e.g as an alert style for the trader etc.

Although i am not an experienced developer, I really thought it should be possible to render the chart to a memory stream even though it is not visible. As you said the information is there, should it not just be a case of re-diverting the rendering to a steam as opposed to the screen?

If i open each chart up in an individual window your script is able to render the chart image to a memory stream even though it it may be overlapped by another chart/window. So the process here is not taking a screenshot as much as it is copying the render that exists in the window. The only difference here is we want to do this with a tab in a window rather that just a window itself.

Just thinking out loud now. Hopefully we can get a solution here!

I look forward to hearing more about this. Cheers.
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[NinjaTrader_DaveI]

Thanks for expanding on that a bit. I'll write up that suggestion now, so we can begin to track user demand for making this change. (SFT-1172)

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello music_p13,

It's possible to see if the selected tab is the visible tab. It may also be possible to loop through the tabs to see which tab is visible.

Below is a link to an example that checks to see if the current tab is the visible tab.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/96376-modifications-to-chart-wpf-elements-and-tab-considerations?p=1124507#post1124507