How can I have my indicator show additional output in a separate window ? I have an indicator that has to display information that is not directly correlated with the bars on the chart (like a configurable depth and width histogram). Only solution I found so far is to directly draw the information in the main chart. That is not very pretty and interferes with the chart.

Can an indicator create a JPanel for example and draw stuff there ?

thanks

Hi,
you could try to override drawOutput method from the IIndicator, but we strongly suggest you to use strategy for such purpose. Could you please describe, what exactly you try to do?

I want to show an histogram (a frequency chart) of let's say bar range over a certain time. The histogram therefore will not have one bar for each price bar, but instead each bar shows how many price bars are within a certain range.

Normal indicators show something correlated directly with the price bars, this one would not, so we can not just use a histogram plot.

It looks like it would be more convenient to implement such thing from a strategy, by using IUserInterface, see an example here:
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