Draw.Text produced black text only.

[fx.practic]

Hello.
This line draw text with black color only.
What am I doing wrong?

Draw.Text( this, CurrentBar +"_lo_not_palced "+ask, 
true, s, 0, price_level, 50, 
Brushes.DarkRed, 
new NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont(), 
TextAlignment.Right, null, null, 0 ); 

[RJay]

Hello.
This line draw text with black color only.
What am I doing wrong?

Draw.Text( this, CurrentBar +"_lo_not_palced "+ask, 
true, s, 0, price_level, 50, 
Brushes.DarkRed, 
new NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont(), 
TextAlignment.Right, null, null, 0 ); 

Try looking at this example.

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

[fx.practic]

I tried more than one variant of creating font and text brush. And other brushes.

NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont myFont = 
new NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont("Courier New", 12) { Size = 50, Bold = true };

Draw.Text( this, CurrentBar +"_lo_not_palced "+ask, true, s, 0,
Sit_Long.Order_Price_Counted, 50, 
Brushes.DarkRed, myFont, TextAlignment.Right, null, null, 0 ); 

[yamzeq]

May I use this post to ask you something?
If I wanna use Draw.Text and "plot" for example the number 4 (calculated), and in the next tick CHANGE the value, is there any possibility?

Thanks!

[JohnSteinberg]

General problem

This seems to be a general breaking problem in 8.0.9.0. All my indicators that worked perfectly in the previous version now comes up by default with all colors set to black, even though custom colors have been chosen and saved in a template.

Once again, this worked perfectly in the previous version.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

Hello.
This line draw text with black color only.
What am I doing wrong?

Draw.Text( this, CurrentBar +"_lo_not_palced "+ask, 
true, s, 0, price_level, 50, 
Brushes.DarkRed, 
new NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools.SimpleFont(), 
TextAlignment.Right, null, null, 0 ); 

I am not able to reproduce this behavior.

Below is a link to a video I have recorded to demonstrate.

https://www.screencast.com/t/p2iYaaFs

Attached is the script tested. If you test on your end and view the color of the Some Text in the Drawing Objects window are you showing this as being set to black?


yamzeq,

May I use this post to ask you something?
If I wanna use Draw.Text and "plot" for example the number 4 (calculated), and in the next tick CHANGE the value, is there any possibility?

Thanks!

When the object is redrawn using the same tag, then the new values will take affect using the new supplied variables. If you are using a new unique tags, this will draw new objects using the new values but will not modify any other unspecified objects.

Below is a publicly available link to the help guide on Draw.Text().

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

JohnSteinberg,

This seems to be a general breaking problem in 8.0.9.0. All my indicators that worked perfectly in the previous version now comes up by default with all colors set to black, even though custom colors have been chosen and saved in a template.

Once again, this worked perfectly in the previous version.

Is this an open source script?
Or is this an exported dll using a template?
Do you have a reduced script that can demonstrate the behavior you can export and attach to your next post?

[fx.practic]

ChelseaB, I'm sorry, but I don't see any text on chart in Your video.

Also, I tried Your script at my end. Text is black. Here is video: https://www.screencast.com/t/niO6hWVQh

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

I'm running on some slow hardware today. My video skipped the part where it gets added to the chart and doesn't show me clicking on this and selecting properties.

I remade the video moving a little slower.

https://www.screencast.com/t/GfeKGKBjhA7

Do you a Default template saved for the Text Drawing object?

[fx.practic]

I do nothing with templates.
I didn't, even, think about it. Should I try something with templates?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

As long as you have opened up the templates window and confirmed there is no template named Default, and you are using 8.0.9.0 I would like to schedule a call with you to observe this behavior during our normal support hours.

Please send an email to platformsupport [at] ninjatrader [dot] com. In the email, please include a link to this forum thread.

[fx.practic]

Hello, Chelsea.

I found Default template for Text IDrawingTool, remove it, and text become colourized, yes. Thank You.
But, what about users on other systems? What if they need their text templates?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

This confirms that you have saved a Default template for this drawing object.

If the user has saved a default template, then that default template will always be applied when no template is specified.

This is true with manually drawn objects, this is true with code drawn objects.

The user will need to remove the Default template if they do not want a Default template.

Or you can supply a template and specify that template in your script.

[JohnSteinberg]

Hi Chelsea,

Apologies for the late reply. Must just apologize to the OP for hijacking this thread too, should have started a separate thread. Apologies @fx.practic.

Attached is a simple indicator that draws a price line and tick counter with normal and low color fonts. You will see when you add the indicator to a tick chart everything works as it should. If you save a template and try and load the template on a new chart again, everything is basically set to 'colorless'. I tested this indicator unedited on both version 8.0.9.0 and previous versions and the above behavior only happens in version 8.0.9.0.

Thanks for any assistance you can give to solve this.

Regards,
John

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello John,

To confirm, you are saving a default template, and the colors saved in the template are not loading correctly when the drawing object is drawn from a script, but is loading correctly when drawn manually, is this correct?

[fx.practic]

Hello fx.practic,

This confirms that you have saved a Default template for this drawing object.

If the user has saved a default template, then that default template will always be applied when no template is specified.

This is true with manually drawn objects, this is true with code drawn objects.

The user will need to remove the Default template if they do not want a Default template.

Or you can supply a template and specify that template in your script.

I still can't believe this is true.

I requesting removing any dependencies between programmatically created Draw objects and any user-created templates.

Of course, except draw methods overloads with template in parameters.