Color and Time as Variables

[Richard Von]

I have some indicators that change the back color upon certain conditions. I'd like to allow the user to select the color as a variable but can't find a way to provide that as an input (like you can for lines). Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Also some indicators only are active during certain time windows. Similarly, is there a way to allow the user to input times as variables?

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello Richard,

Thank you for your post.

Please see the article below on creating user definable Color Inputs:

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4977

There isn't an equivalent guide on user definable custom times. Working with DateTime properties is more C# related than NinjaScript. The article below provides advice on working with Date/Time objects in NinjaScript, but you may need to look at some of the C# reference samples to achieve what you want.

http://www.ninjatrader-support2.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19292

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime(VS.71).aspx

[Richard Von]

Thanks for the posts. I've downloaded them and am working on it.

[Richard Von]

I got the color inputs going fine. Thanks so much.

I think I am following how to manipulate times from the sample you attached, but not sure how to imput a time from the user. Any help?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hi Richard,

Unfortunately this is outside the scope of support we provide. May be easier to accept an INT representing time and work with that.

[Ralph]

Hi Richard,

you could try to define a property as DateTime or TimeSpan and test how the result would look like.

Regards
Ralph