Bar Spacing Property

[cutzpr]

I understand you cannot change the Chart Bars Spacing pragmatically, only manually but is there a read only property that I can access.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello cutzpr,

Thanks for your post.

You can read the bar spacing type here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...pacingtype.htm

Other properties of interest might be:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?chartcontrol_barwidth.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/?chartcontrol_getbarpaintwidth.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...properties.htm
Note: see BarDistance in ChartControl properties.

[cutzpr]

Paul,

Thank you. I thought it was ChartProperties.BarDistance but it didn't add up but now I see why. BarDistance is calculated from the center of the candle to the center of another candle. Not the from the outer body of the candle which is why the numbers did not add up.

Just posting this "fyi" for others. To get the colors to perfectly line up when rendering you dont need to incorporate the bar-width/outer body.

                barSpace = chartProperties.BarDistance;                
                barWidth = (float)chartControl.BarWidth;

                barStartX = chartControl.GetXByBarIndex(ChartBars, index);
                barStartX  = barStartX - barSpace/2;

                barEndX = chartControl.GetXByBarIndex(ChartBars, index) + barSpace/2;