Skin and NT8 System colors

[zweistein]

How do I get access to the many NT8 system colors used,

for example color of a buy button, background color of OrderEntry for real and simulated trading, etc...


Thank you
Andreas

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the question.

I wanted to confirm, are you only trying to get specific colors or are you trying to style other controls similar to the native NinjaTrader controls?

You can retrieve Colors, SolidColorBrushes and other information from the skin resources, it would depend on what specifically you are trying to retrieve.

For a SolidColorBrush, you could instead use the following Brush on the style you want to retrieve.

SolidColorBrush someBrush = Application.Current.TryFindResource("SomResourceName") as SolidColorBrush;

For a Color, it would be:

Color someBrush = Application.Current.TryFindResource("SomResourceName") as Color

There are also specific color properties depending on the control you are trying to access, for example the ChartControl has a Propeties object which contains the common chart properties/colors.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/chartcontrol_properties.htm?zoom_highlightsub=chartcontrol

The style of other controls can be acquired as well, a menu item can be retrieved using the following syntax.

Application.Current.TryFindResource("MainMenuItem") as Style

You can find all of the used resource names in the blueprint.xml file for each skin. We have a short guide on editing skins here: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...hlightsub=skin




I look forward to being of further assistance.

[zweistein]

I just want to create my own SpreadTrader control (see old NT7 version here http://zweisteintrading.eu/spreadtrader.htm )

and replicate the colors that are currently used in NT8. Interested in the Long / Short Button colors etc...

I will give your approach a try. My Window will be wpf xaml based, will report in the next days

Andreas

[zweistein]

blueprint.xaml etc,, Basic Entry background color

Hello,

I can find several Color and Brush definitions in blueprint.xaml , orderentry.xaml .. etc.

But I am missing a defintion for the background color for a BasicEntry window!

This color will change according to account simulated or real.

Could you indicate the Resources you use for the 2 states of the Background color?

Thank you

Andreas

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the reply.

The Simulation color is a special brush that is set in the options menu, this is not going to be controlled with the skin specifically.

You can instead reference this property using the following syntax:

NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.TradingOptions.SimulationColor

As far as knowing the State of the tool, you could check if Global Simulation is enabled or not:

bool isEnabled = NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.TradingOptions.IsGlobalSimulationMode;

I look forward to being of further assistance.