I could not get the .NET/COM/DLL to talk to NinjaTrader c# so I am
using a socket connection instead.
Below is some C# code and some J code which gets NT communicating with
J in case anybody wants to do that. I am not a very good programmer so
only use with caution, but it works.
c#/Ninjatrader:
#region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Indicator;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;
using NinjaTrader.Strategy;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
#endregion
// This namespace holds all strategies and is required. Do not change it.
namespace NinjaTrader.Strategy
{
/// <summary>
/// Sends samples to a J server and maintains its required positions.
/// </summary>
[Description("Sendsmessages to J server and outputs replies")]
public class connectJ : Strategy
{
#region Variables
Socket JSocket = null;
const string server = "127.0.0.1";
const int port = 1500;
const int bufferLength = 1024*10;
#endregion
private string messageJ(string message)
{
// Send a message to J on server:port and return the
string based output.
// Algo is: Connect if not connected, send message,
return reply.
// Socket code based on:
//
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.socket.aspx
bool connected = false;
if (JSocket == null) {
connected = false;
} else {
connected = JSocket.Connected;
}
if (! connected) {
Print("Not connected, connecting...");
IPHostEntry hostEntry = null;
hostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(server);
foreach(IPAddress address in
hostEntry.AddressList)
{
IPEndPoint ipe = new
IPEndPoint(address, port);
Socket tempSocket =
new Socket(ipe.AddressFamily,
SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
tempSocket.Connect(ipe);
if(tempSocket.Connected)
{
JSocket = tempSocket;
break;
}
else
{
continue;
}
}
}
Byte[] byData =
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(message);
JSocket.Send(byData);
Byte[] buffer = new Byte[bufferLength];
string reply = "";
int bytes = 0;
// do {
try {
bytes = JSocket.Receive(buffer,
buffer.Length, 0);
reply = reply +
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, bytes);
// Print("reply was:" + reply);
}
catch (System.Net.Sockets.SocketException ex) {
Print("Socket exception on read:" +
ex.SocketErrorCode);
}
// } while (bytes > 0); Loop causes a hang. Do not know why!
So made buffer huge.
return reply;
}
public override void Dispose()
{
// Clean up your resources here
messageJ("NT closing connection now...");
JSocket.Shutdown(System.Net.Sockets.SocketShutdown.Both);
JSocket.Close();
base.Dispose();
}
/// <summary>
/// This method is used to configure the strategy and is
called once before any strategy method is called.
/// </summary>
protected override void Initialize()
{
CalculateOnBarClose = true;
}
/// <summary>
/// Called on each bar update event (incoming tick)
/// </summary>
protected override void OnBarUpdate()
{
Print(messageJ("hello!"));
}
#region Properties
#endregion
}
}
J:
0 : 0
Starts a server ready to accept trading comms from NinjaTrader.
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load'socket'
coinsert 'jsocket'
connect =: 3 : 0
NB. close all open sockets
sdcleanup ''
NB. create a socket to LISTEN
SKLISTEN =: 0 pick sdcheck sdsocket''
NB. bind an address to the SKLISTEN socket
sdcheck sdbind SKLISTEN ; AF_INET_jsocket_ ; '' ; y
NB. tell the socket to listen for 1 message at a time
sdcheck sdlisten SKLISTEN , 1
NB. poll until connection recieved (must be a better way?)
smoutput ''
smoutput ''
smoutput ''
smoutput 'Waiting for client to connect...'
while. ((3$a:) -: sdc =. sdcheck sdselect'') do. end.
smoutput 'Connected.'
NB. accept the connection
skserver=: 0 pick sdcheck sdaccept SKLISTEN
NB. close the listening socket
sdcheck sdclose SKLISTEN
)
messageLoop =: 3 : 0
NB. wait for and echo messages
NB. if connection drops then try to reestablish
msg =. ''
while. msg -.@:-: 'exit' do.
try. smoutput msg =. ; sdcheck sdrecv skserver,1000,0
catch.
smoutput 'Client not connected.'
connect 1500 NB. go to reconnect if any problems
end.
try. sdcheck ('You said:', msg) sdsend skserver , 0
catch.
connect 1500
end.
end.
NB. kill the socket
smoutput 'Client sent exit command ... closing socket.'
sdcleanup '' NB. only if msg was exit.
)
messageLoop ''
2009/12/31 bill lam <[email protected]>:
> ĵaŭ, 31 Dec 2009, Matthew Brand skribis:
>> >>Did you use the regedit.exe in syswow64?
>> I did not that time.
>>
>> I just did though and when I do, there is niether an AppID or an
>> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID entry. I guess this is what is going wrong?
>>
>> But when I run try to register it using:
>> C:\Windows\SysWOW64>regsvr32 "c:\Program Files (x86)\NinjaTrader
>> 6.5\bin\Interop.JDLLServerLib.dll"
>
> As Oleg had pointed out, this is only a proxy, you should reg the
> j.dll itself.
> try
> 1. copy j.dll to the ninja bin folder
> 2. type "cmd" in run-window, press shift-enter or other method to run as
> an admin.
> 3. reg the j.dll
> C:\Windows\SysWOW64>regsvr32 "c:\Program Files (x86)\NinjaTrader
> 6.5\bin\j.dll"
>
> 4. see what will be the error message or use syswow64/regedit to verify the
> clsid has been written.
>
> untested.
>
> --
> regards,
> ====================================================
> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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