Text left side of indicator panel

[Spinn]

Hi there,

I' ve been browsing the forum for over an hour now and not finding what I need.

I'm trying to add text to an indicator panel (in NT7). The text should be plotted on the left side of the panel and should stay there, regardless of scrolling.

I looked here: http://www.ninjatrader-support.com/H...TextFixed.html , but that page does not load

I have this code now:

DrawText("test","EMA 60",TextPosition.Center);

, but that obviously just plots in the center of the panel

As a bonus, i would like to decide the y-level of where the text should be printed. Tried doing that like this:

DrawText("test2",false,"EMA 60 bis",10,0.4,0,Color.Black,Arial,StringAlignment.Far,Color.Black,Color.Transparent,5);

, but no succes (error too many arguements)


Please help

[Tom299]

You can overwrite the plot method:

public override void Plot(Graphics graphics, Rectangle bounds, double min, double max)
{

graphics.DrawString("My String", textFont, textBrush, x, y, stringFormat);

}

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Spinn,

Thank you for your post.

Tom299 provides one possible solution, although a bit more complicated. You can just use the DrawTextFixed() method: http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...wtextfixed.htm

[Spinn]

I did try that DrawTextFixed- solution before, but it does not allow for text to be set at a specific y-value, does it ?

I mean: I don't want the text to be in a TopLeft or Bottom Left corner, but nicely in front of my row of dots/diamonds (and they are at 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 in the indicator panel respectively)


Thanks Tom299, I have been fiddling with your solution as well, but cannot seem to figure out WHERE I would need to add these lines Can you assist me on this ?

Thanks to both of you !

[NinjaTrader_PatrickH]

Hello Spinn,

There is actually an example using the Plot override under Tools > Edit NinjaScript > Indicator > CustomPlotSample.