String Formatting

[Mike Winfrey]

I am trying to use "\t" in a string so I will have columns. Doesn't seem to be working. My code snippet is

String pricerank = "Column 1\tColumn 2\tColumn 3";

which produces
Column 1Column 2Column 3

when I expected it to produce
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3

What am I doing wrong?

Mike

[eDanny]

Maybe try this and see what the results are:

String pricerank = "Column 1 \tColumn 2 \tColumn 3";

[Mike Winfrey]

it's puts a space between them and not a tab...

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi Mike Winfrey,

You can either add multiple spaces, or add more \t

Try...

String pricerank = "Column 1\t\tColumn 2\t\tColumn 3";

[Mike Winfrey]

Thanks...according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.71%29.aspx

string c = "hello \t world"; // hello world

which tells me \t should do more than what i'm getting. Using \t in my indicator doesn't produce any spacing at all.

just tried the following

String x = "Column 1/t/t/tColumn 2/t/t/tColumn 3/t/t/t" and it produced

Column 1Column 2Column 3

when according to the reference I provided, it should've done something other than what it did.

Because these fonts are apparently truetype, using spaces is unacceptable as well. Spaces don't produce a well formatted string.

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi Mike Winfrey,

I have been unable to reproduce your results. The \t creates a space on my end.

How exactly are you using the string? Are you printing to text on a chart? To the output window?

[Mike Winfrey]

The funny thing is that according to the reference I sent you it shouldn't produce a space but a tab. Anyway, I am using it to send the string to the chart in the upper right corner of the price panel using the code snippet I provided in the first post.

More fully, I am using

String pricerank =
"GBPAUD\t" + GBPAUD.ToString("0.0") +
"\nGBPCAD\t" + GBPCAD.ToString("0.0") +
"\nGBPCHF\t" + GBPCHF.ToString("0.0") +
"\nGBPJPY\t" + GBPJPY.ToString("0.0") +
"\nGBPNZD\t" + GBPNZD.ToString("0.0") +
"\nGBPJPY\t" + GBPJPY.ToString("0.0") +
"\nEURGBP\t" + EURGBP.ToString("0.0");

DrawTextFixed("PriceRank",pricerank,TextPosition.T opRight,Color.Black,textFont,Color.Empty,Color.Emp ty,10);

Am attaching the strategy with proprietary stuff removed. You can see what I'm trying to do is very basic with this string formatting.

Thanks,
Mike

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Please lower case your S for string and see if that helps.

[Mike Winfrey]

nope...same result.
now i am using

string pricerank = ...

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Mike,

Here is the deal. When you use it in a DrawText() as a draw object, you will not see such formatting. You can only see the formatting when you use it and print to say the Output Window.

[Mike Winfrey]

That's funny. Does that just apply to the \t? Just wondering because \n works in DrawText.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Tim]

Hi Mike Winfrey,

\n appears to work as expected.

[Mike Winfrey]

Yes I know which is why I asked my last question...why does \n work but \t doesn't?

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Mike,

Seems to be a bug. Thank you. We have added it to our list.

[Mike Winfrey]

Cool...thanks Josh