Set height of inidcator panel

[kevinenergy]

Hi there,

is there any way to constrain the height of an indicator panel programatically?

I've got a whole bunch of indicators on my strategy that don't require much height. They're just green/red/yellow strips for various buy/sell/flat signals I'm working with. When I start my strategy these panels are granted about 75% of the available chart space, with the main-panel getting the remaining 25%.

During development, I am Tweaking, Rebuilding & restarting my strategy loads of times per day and I am wasting so much time resizing panels.

thanks,

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello kevinenergy,

Thank you for the post.

Unfortunately, the ChartPanel object's H property is read-only. This can't be set programmatically. I will submit a feature request to add the ability to set this property through a NinjaScript object.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

[kevinenergy]

Yes please do submit a feature request - and also point out that people have been waiting for this feature for over 11 years!! The first posts on this subject I found are 2007/2008

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/indicator-development-aa/3436-indicator-panel-size

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/indicator-development-aa/5519-reducing-height-of-indicator-panel

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/general-development/26800-indicator-panel-height

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello kevinenergy,

Thank you for the reply.

I will add all of these links to my report to let our product management team know of the demand for this feature.

Thank you for the suggestion, please let me know if I can assist further.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello kevinenergy,

I have the feature tracking ID for this item. I also added three votes to it for the three users that have requested this.

SFT-3698

You may check the release notes upon future updates to track new features:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?release_notes.htm

Please let me know if I can assist further.

[EminiTrader]

What is the current status of this 11 year-old request?

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi EminiTrader, thanks for the follow up. This feature request is still pending. The release notes will include all added feature request, so if you do not see it in there, it means the development team has decided to not include the feature in that particular update.

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[Bidder]

I see this as necessary for several reasons. One of which being there are times (for reasons that I cannot isolate) that the workspace does not accurately save the panel height and it must be adjusted manually.

[UltraNIX]

Add my vote as well. And multiply it by infinity, so it would be implemented rather sooner than later.

[Bobin]

I would like to have this feature too.

[NinjaTrader_BrandonH]

Hello Bidder, UltraNIX, and Bobin,

Thanks for your notes.

Your votes have been added.

Let us know if we may assist further.

[Bobin]

There is a really simple solution:

ChartControl.RowDefinitions.First().Height = new GridLength(100, rowDefinition.Height.GridUnitType);

Keep in mind that 100 is not a value in pixels but relative to the other grid lengths.

[kevinenergy]

Thanks for sharing!

There is a really simple solution:

ChartControl.RowDefinitions.First().Height = new GridLength(100, rowDefinition.Height.GridUnitType);

Keep in mind that 100 is not a value in pixels but relative to the other grid lengths.