ShortCutKey vs HotKey

[Mindset]

1. hotkeys are great - well done!
Quick suggestion - when the modal form caution comes up - might be as well to add that you need to check the Use Order Entry HotKeys under the General Tab for order entries to work.

2. I tried coding a context menu item with

_m3.ShortcutKeys = Keys.F11;

but nothing happens. Is this incorrect coding or have I missed something?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

1) Thanks for your suggestion.
2) Unfortunately this is beyond what we provide support for. In particular as we now have hot keys we would not support any code which potentially might conflict with the hot key concept.

[Mindset]

ok lets throw it open

Can anyone else answer this question in the forum?

1. Is it possible to code a shortcut ( used to be ) Hotkey manager is of no value in this scenario.

2. What am I missing to make it so?

[Mindset]

Update

Now I am using NT7 I stumbled across this list whilst looking for something completely different.

Here is my solution

AddMenuItem(1, "DeleteAll", new EventHandler(this.terminate),Keys.F11);

This overrides the hotkey management as far as I can tell- but hey it works so I go with it.

NB this is for relatively advanced programmers as far as I can tell ( certainly don't put myself in that category) and will most definitely not be supported.

[Jim-Boulder]

Mindset--could you provide an example of where in the code you added this line of code, or where you found this?

[Mindset]

Shortcut keys

I basically got the idea from the msdn website which has loads of small examples of C#.
the AddMenuItem was a piece of coding I paid a consultant to do - I just added the shortcut key.
Edit - be aware that you have to choose your key carefully so that it doesn't interfere with NT7 hot key mapping. So Keys.NumPad123456,etc is a good idea as NT hotkeys doesn't use any of these.

[Jim-Boulder]

thanks--I'll check into it...

[aviat72]

I basically got the idea from the msdn website which has loads of small examples of C#.
the AddMenuItem was a piece of coding I paid a consultant to do - I just added the shortcut key.
Edit - be aware that you have to choose your key carefully so that it doesn't interfere with NT7 hot key mapping. So Keys.NumPad123456,etc is a good idea as NT hotkeys doesn't use any of these.

Mindset:

If you do not mind sharing, could you post a snippet which shows how (context) and where (function) do you use the AddMenuItem call?

Thanks

[Mindset]

menu item

if(this.ChartControl != null && this.ChartControl.ContextMenuStrip != null)
{

AddMenuItems......

}

The addmenuitems is a separate object/method? that the coder has set up but I hope you can get the concept from the above