User Definable Color Inputs

[NinjaTrader_Josh]

User definable inputs do not need to be limited to numeric values. You can have colors as an input as well. To do this you will need to make a public property for a Color object instead of an int or double.

In the "Properties" region of your code, there is only a slight change in the code snippet you would normally use to create user definable inputs. You need an extra line above the Description field.
[XmlIgnore()]
[Description("Color for painted region")]
[GridCategory("Parameters")] The second difference is in the next line of code:
public Color PaintColor
{
get { return paintColor; }
set { paintColor = value; }
} This creates a color input for use in the dialog window when we try to add the NinjaScript to a chart.

Some additional extra code that is required for creating a color input is to serialize the color. Serialization is necessary for NinjaTrader to use the color input throughout the program. Please note that serialization is a general concept not exclusive to color inputs. There may be other struct/classes (e.g. TimeSpan) that you could use in your code that would also need to have their "value" properties serialized.
[Browsable(false)]
public string PaintColorSerialize
{
get { return NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.ToString( paintColor); }
set { paintColor = NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.FromStrin g(value); }
} Attached is a NinjaScript indicator sample that uses two user definable color inputs to determine the color of a drawn rectangle.