Update Position of Manual Drawing

[calebsandfort]

I've drawn a textbox manually and I would like to update it's position via my strategy. Basically I want to be able to edit the text on the chart so I can pass commands to the strategy and have the position always be in the lower left hand corner.

Should this be possible? How do I update the position? Here's what I'm trying so far:

foreach (DrawingTool draw in DrawObjects.ToList())
{
if(draw is DrawingTools.TextFixed)
{
TextFixed textFixed = draw as TextFixed;
if(textFixed.Tag == "Command")
{
textFixed.Anchor.StartAnchor.Price = MIN(ChartBars.ToIndex - ChartBars.FromIndex)[0] - 1;
}
}
}

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello calebsandfort,

Draw.TextFixed objects are fixed. They don't use a price or time value they use TextPosition.BottomLeft, BottomRight, Center, TopLeft, TopRight.

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

You may be thinking of Draw.Text.

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

It is not currently possible to modify a drawing object's anchors BarsAgo or remove drawing objects that are not created by the script. It is possible to change the colors of drawing objects and sometimes other properties. However, I am unsure about specifically changing the price of Text objects anchor.

I will further research and if I find this is not possible I will submit a feature request on your behalf for the development team to consider this for a future version of NinjaTrader.

[calebsandfort]

Yes, Draw.Text is what I meant.

Basically I'm just trying to figure out a way to communicate with my strategy while it is running. My first thought was a text field that I could pass commands thru.

I also saw someone suggest using a text file in the NinjaTrader temp directory.

Any other ways of doing this?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello calebsandfort,

I am finding that the price can be changed when the script is in real-time data.

An <Anchor>.Time can also be modified.

Below is a link to a video and attached is the test script.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nXS...w?usp=drivesdk

Just a heads up, the DrawObjects collection may not be populated when the chart is processing historical data.