How to find analyzer properties in ninjascript?

[Sim22]

Hello,

I wish to:

1. Tell an indicator if it is in a chart or a market analyzer.
2. Find the properties of the analyzer.

1. I am currently using:

if (ChartControl == null)
{
      //then it is not in a chart
} 

I could see this being a little too open in syntax and possibly not safe. Is there another alternative? I thought of something like this in pseudocode:

if MarketAnalyzerColumn is the parent of the indicator then it is in a market analyzer 

2. I tried to use this code below to access the font within the market analyzer that the indicator is attached to:

SimpleFont font = new SimpleFont();

NinjaTrader.Gui.MarketAnalyzer.MarketAnalyzerProperties prop = new NinjaTrader.Gui.MarketAnalyzer.MarketAnalyzerProperties();
                font = prop.FontInfo; 

This found 'a font' but since it is a new instance of MarketAnalyzerProperties then it returned only the default font of NT8... Arial.

How would I find the user selected font of the market analyzer that the indicator is currently active in? eg. If I am using 'Tahoma' then it should return 'Tahoma'.

Thank you in advance,

Simon.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the question.

To check if the item is in the MA, you could use the following:

 if (Parent is MarketAnalyzerColumnBase)
	Print("Running on a Market Analyzer");

Currently there is no documented way to get or set properties of the MA window from a indicator specifically, there is a feature request in place for this which I will add a vote. SFT-1270

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[Sim22]

Thank you Jesse,

That is so simple

Yes that ability would be good. Basically I am making a custom font for use in the analyzer. I plan to share this publicly with an indicator so I need to set some fail safe conditions to make sure people have the right font setting in the analyzer.
Although I am not a vendor I do understand that these sort of items need to be available for a customer base that often fails to read instructions