Not retaining colors

March 6th, 2011, 10:04 PM

Hi,
I am trying to code this volume counter to retain its colors but I seem to fail to achieve this. Not much of a programmer, but with the little knowledge I have thought serializing the colors in the property section would keep the colors. Any help appreciated.

Jigsaw Trading · March 6th, 2011, 10:11 PM

Here's a snippet from my code that does save the colours....

Code

        [XmlIgnore()]
        [Description("At Ask For Color")]
        [GridCategory("Appearance")]
        public Color AtAskColor {
            get { return foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK]; }
            set { foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK] = value; }
        }
        
        [Browsable(false)]
        public string AtAskColorSerialize {
            get { return NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.ToString(foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK]); }
            set { foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK] = NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.FromString(value); }
        }

Hope it helps.

Pete

March 6th, 2011, 10:28 PM

Pete,
Tried out your snippet but getting all sorts of errors, not to mention your code seems sophisticated for my basic level!
Errors include "cannot convert Syste.Drawing.Color to 'int' for the bit "return foreColor[(int)..."

Will work on it, any more (simpler

clues would be appreciated.

DionysusToast

Here's a snippet from my code that does save the colours....

Code

        [XmlIgnore()]
        [Description("At Ask For Color")]
        [GridCategory("Appearance")]
        public Color AtAskColor {
            get { return foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK]; }
            set { foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK] = value; }
        }
        
        [Browsable(false)]
        public string AtAskColorSerialize {
            get { return NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.ToString(foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK]); }
            set { foreColor[(int)PriceType.AT_ASK] = NinjaTrader.Gui.Design.SerializableColor.FromString(value); }
        }

Hope it helps.

Pete

March 6th, 2011, 10:45 PM

Solved!

FWIW, applied the color code change within the DrawText and now works.

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