Ninja's icon font

[EB Worx]

How can i draw icons on the chart ?
Atm.. im trying todo the following
However the IconsFamily font used by NT8 to draw icons is an embedded resource. It seems that SimpleFont does not work with embedded resources.
Is there some other way to get this to work ?

        private void DrawTextLabel(ChartControl chartControl, ChartScale chartScale, string txt, float x, float y, float w)
        {
            var family = System.Windows.Application.Current.TryFindResource("IconsFamily") as System.Windows.Media.FontFamily;
            var wpfFont = new SimpleFont(family.ToString(), 32);
            var textFormat = wpfFont.ToDirectWriteTextFormat();

            textFormat.TextAlignment = SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextAlignment.Center;
            textFormat.WordWrapping = WordWrapping.NoWrap;

            var textLayout = new TextLayout(Globals.DirectWriteFactory, txt, textFormat, w, textFormat.FontSize);
            var textBrush = Brushes.Black.ToDxBrush(RenderTarget);
            RenderTarget.DrawTextLayout(new Vector2(x, y), textLayout, textBrush, DrawTextOptions.NoSnap);

            textBrush.Dispose();
            textFormat.Dispose();
            textLayout.Dispose();
        }

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Erwin Beckers,

So with the right font family the icons can be rendered in sharpdx.

Below is a link to a forum post on how to the get icon font family with an automation id.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...270#post803270

For example:

protected override void OnRender(ChartControl chartControl, ChartScale chartScale)
{
    base.OnRender(chartControl, chartScale);

    // calculate the x and y values for the line to start and end
    SharpDX.Vector2 startPoint = new SharpDX.Vector2(100, 70);

    // get the IconsFamily font family and supply to textformat
    FontFamily btnFontFamily = Application.Current.TryFindResource("IconsFamily") as FontFamily;
    SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextFormat chartTextFormat = new SimpleFont(btnFontFamily.FamilyNames.First().Value, 40).ToDirectWriteTextFormat();

    // create a new TextFormat object using information from the chart labels
    SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextFormat textFormat = new SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextFormat(Core.Globals.DirectWriteFactory, chartTextFormat.FontFamilyName, chartTextFormat.FontWeight, chartTextFormat.FontStyle, chartTextFormat.FontSize);

    string textToRender = NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.Icons.CcTools;

    // calculate the layout of the text to be drawn
    SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextLayout textLayout = new SharpDX.DirectWrite.TextLayout(Core.Globals.DirectWriteFactory,
        textToRender, textFormat, 300, textFormat.FontSize);

    RenderTarget.DrawTextLayout(startPoint, textLayout, Brushes.LightBlue.ToDxBrush(RenderTarget) );
}

I'm noticing that for this to display, the nt8_iconfont.ttf font file needs to be installed in windows and it appears that the later versions of NinjaTrader 8's installer is not installing this. I'm checking with our development to see if there is a different method for accessing this.

[EB Worx]

Yes for fonts installed in windows it works fine, but for fonts embedded as a resource it doesn't ;-)

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Erwin Beckers,

Our development is letting me know the font file is no longer distributed with NinjaTrader 8.

I'm attaching to this post if you want to use it.

I'm also submitting a feature request for a native supported way of using the font with NinjaScripts. Once I have a tracking ID for this request I will forward this to you for future reference.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Erwin Beckers,

I've received tracking ID #SFT-2023 for this request for a supported way of accessing NinjaTrader's icons.

Please note it is up to the NinjaTrader Development to decide if or when any request will be implemented.

We appreciate your feedback on this.

[EB Worx]

Thx.. for now i decided to use custom gfx icons instead of the Ninatrader font