SharpDX to overlay horizontal lines

[Bidder]

Hi All,

I would like to know how to get items drawn via SharpDX to overlay horizontal lines. In the graphic below two horizontal lines (green and blue) overlay the SharpDX design at 138 and 58. I experimented a bit with Zorder but it didn't seem to have any effect. The SharpDX rectangle design is being drawn by the code below.

Thanks !




SharpDX.RectangleF rect1 = new SharpDX.RectangleF(x - BarWidth, y + barYOffset, BarWidth, BarHeight);
RenderTarget.FillRectangle(rect1, dxmBrushes["PeripheryBarBrush"].DxBrush);

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Bidder,

Are the lines and the rectangle both rendered in the same script in OnRender()?
Are these coming from different scripts or from a draw method?

The order objects are rendered within a single script will layer the objects with the first rendered objects on the bottom. Render anything you want on top last.

[Bidder]

Hi Chelsea, The greenish line is a hand drawn horizontal line and the blueish line is a was drawn using Draw.HorizontalLine() in a totally separate script applied to the same chart.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Bidder,

The indicators themselves have the z-order.

If these are not the same script, then you would need to manually adjust the z-order of the individual objects.

Click the manually drawn line, hold shift then scroll the scroll wheel up to push this back in the z-order.

Click the draw line from the other script, hold shift, then scroll the scroll wheel up to push this back in the z-order.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/index.html?chart_objects.htm#HowToChangeTheZorderpaintOrderOfAChartObject

[Bidder]

Some other info:

The script drawing the rectangle (SharpDX.RectangleF) has MediaBrush.Opacity set to 1 which is what I would expect.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Bidder,

Are you talking about an input you have added to the script? You've changed this and clicked OK?

Are you printing the value of the input to see what is in the script?

[Bidder]

Hi Chelsea, Thank you for the input.

Just for anyone reading the thread, below is what was done to mitigate the issue.

To solve the overwriting issue for lines drawn by a script move indicator writing SharpDX elements after the indicator drawing the lines.

To solve overwriting for manual lines the code below was added to the OnRender method of the script managing the lines.

A soon as any kind of line is added to the chart any previously drawn manual line(s) were immediately moved under the SharpDX element. So the code
below detects when the number of manual lines on the chart changes and draws and removes a transparent line.


foreach (Gui.NinjaScript.IChartObject thisObject in ChartPanel.ChartObjects)
{
if(thisObject is NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.DrawingTools.HorizontalLin e)
{
NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.DrawingTools.Line l1 = thisObject as NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.DrawingTools.Line;
l1.ZOrder=5;
if (l1.IsUserDrawn) NbrManualLines=NbrManualLines+1;
}}

if (NbrManualLines != PrevNbrManualLines)
{
tag="Remove" + DateTime.Now.ToString();
LineObject=Draw.HorizontalLine(this, tag, Close[0]+(TickSize*10), Brushes.Transparent, LineDashStyle, LineThickness);
RemoveDrawObject(tag);
ForceRefresh();
PrevNbrManualLines = NbrManualLines ;
}