ZOrder Issues

[marty087]

Hi,

I am drawing some fixed text using SharoDX in the OnRender void. The issue I am having is that the Draw.Line and the Draw.Text objects drawn in the OnBarUpdate are overlaying ontop of my text and rectangle which is drawn in OnRender. Please see attachment for the screenshot of this


I have tried adding " ZOrderType = DrawingToolZOrder.AlwaysDrawnLast;" to the Set.Defauts as shown in the helpguide below in order to test the effect, however ZOrdeType doesnt seem to exist and therefor wont compile

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

Any suggestions?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the post.

It appears that ZOrderType is a DrawingTool inherited property, are you currently using this outside of a drawing tool? If so that would explain why that is not compiling.

Regarding your initial request, could you provide a simple example script that shows a render and drawing object used that overlap? I would like to see the structure you are using and use that going forward with the question. I am unsure by the context if the overlap as shown would simply be how the drawing is currently working or the order in which you are drawing so it would be good to start with a sample to work off of.


I look forward to being of further assistance.

[marty087]

Hi Jesse,

Thanks for attending to this.

Please see attached script along with a pic of the output.

What I need to do is make the pink vertical lines go behind the rectangle and text just like the candles are doing.

I am not a career coder, if you could give me an example of the ZOrderType in action, that you be appreciated.

Cheers.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the image and script, I now see what is happening.

It looks like this property is accessable from the object its self:

Draw.VerticalLine(this,"Line"+x,x*5,Brushes.Fuchsia).ZOrderType = DrawingToolZOrder.AlwaysDrawnFirst;

This seems to place the lines before the OnRender so OnRender items are placed over the draw objects.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[marty087]

Works perfectly. Thanks