DrawText in Strategy

[ATI user]

Please remind me what was to change in NT7 re draw objects from a strategy.

Remember 6.5 had a dummy indicator that was used to do this?....which maybe we called from the strat?

Can not remember

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

ATI user,

Not sure what you mean by DrawText. DrawText has always worked in a strategy or indicator and will continue to work.

If you mean plots, that would be the StrategyPlot reference sample. Though that was always more of a workaround with limitations. Strategies are generally not meant for plotting. If you want to plot you should use an indicator.

[ATI user]

thanks....yes that was plots.....of course....my 6.5 strats used DrawText a lot

confusion comes from this strat code:

//from NT7 indicator
DrawText("tag", false, "TEXT" , 0, 10010,0, Color.Red,
new Font("Arial",20), StringAlignment.Far, Color.Transparent, Color.Black,0);

// from NT7 help guide
DrawText("tag1", "Text to draw", 0, 10005, Color.Red);

//from NT7 indicator DrawHorizontalLine("tag2",false,10000,Color.Cyan,DashStyle.DashDotDot,5);

Of the 3 lines of code, only the line plots....not even DrawText from NT7 help guide worked

this is on a blank chart with only the strat running

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

Suggest you check Control Center logs for errors.

[ATI user]

always look there first

no errors in Log

no errors in Output Window

draws line...will not draw text

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

Seems to work here. Please try the attached indicator on your machine. Also, please be sure you are on NT7B3 now. Thanks.

[ATI user]

same issue in b3

will try your test strat

[ATI user]

Josh

You exported an Indicator. I am having problem with DrawText in a Strategy

Yours plots fine as ind....so do mine

only horizontal line plots from my strat code plots...no text


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put your drawtext line of code in my strategy and also would not draw text

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all 4 lines (3 of mine, 1 of yours) plots fine in an ind.....only line plots in strat


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[ATI user]

Josh

To reproduce at your end:

add your DrawText code to your SampleAtmStrategy

and run it

that is what I get from doing same

the 'BarsDisplayText' error is a bug Dierk has solved for NT7b4....maybe they are related

[ATI user]

simplest way to reproduce

go to Wizard....create a new Strategy....add only your line of DrawText code

compile, load to chart and enable ....no text

this proves bug is not related to AtmStrategyCreate issue Dierk is working on

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

Seems to be working here. Please try attached strategy.

[ATI user]

not working here

I did a complete install of beta 3....no difference

[ATI user]

added horizontal line to your strat to show it plots

still no text

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

I am not sure why it would not show up for you as it shows up on my end. Perhaps try reinstalling .NET?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Guessing: may be you have issues with fonts on your machine. Josh's sample went with Arial,10. You could try different fonts to see if that would make any difference.

[ATI user]

I am not sure why it would not show up for you as it shows up on my end. Perhaps try reinstalling .NET?

I am running .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

is that the correct version?

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

That version should be fine.

[ATI user]

Josh, Dierk

This is interesting

I exported 32 bit protected from desktop and imported to my laptop...remotesoft worked fine.

I forgot to create my atmstrategy for my strategy and therefore got the typical error message.

The interesting part is that Text now plotted from my strat on the chart.

I then created the atmstrategy and ran the strat....no text on chart this time, only horizontal line

And now, of course, I got the error message from trying to place an order using atmstrategycreate.....i.e. that Dierk has fixed for beta 4....re BarDisplayText error

Conclusion: unable to draw text on chart from strat is directly related to same issue

to reproduce: put the DrawText line in SampleAtmStrategy.....run it without creating the atmstrategytemplate....text will draw... then create the atmstrategytemplate and text will not draw and you should get the BarsDisplayText error

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BTW....neither laptop nor desktop will run my strat on a second chart....only minute charts

[ATI user]

correction

beta 3 on my laptop XP does draw the text with the atm template in place

and the same strat on one of my user's Windows 7 machine it draws the text also

so problem is only on my Vista machine

all 3 machines are using .NET 3.5 and zenfire

will try to re-install .net on my desktop

[jdfagan]

If you mean plots, that would be the StrategyPlot reference sample. Though that was always more of a workaround with limitations. Strategies are generally not meant for plotting. If you want to plot you should use an indicator.

Josh,

I made heavy use of StrategyPlot with 6.5 due to some data I needed plotting that is intimately tied with calculations specific to a strategy - not really indicator material.

I'm going thru the list of Code-Breaking Changes for NT 7 and was wondering about StrategyPlot's use of DataSeries since a couple of issues regarding DataSeries is mentioned in changes, notably:

* default of 256 lookback
* calling DataSeries.Set() before accessing a DataSeries value on a bar

Does StrategyPlot need any alteration do you think with regard to how it uses DataSeries for it to work comparably to how it did in 6.5? I didn't notice any .Set method calls in StrategyPlot so was concerned about that.

Thanks for any pointers..

JD

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

JD,

I imagine you should be able to get it to perform the same.

The .Sets for the StrategyPlot are seen here:
StrategyPlot(0).Value.Set(High[0]);
StrategyPlot(1).Value.Set(Highs[1][0]);