Instrument Search Box - Wrong action on Enter Key

[cutzpr]

When adding a instruments to an instrument list, a black search box appears with a magnifying class to the right. When a user hits the enter key, it doesn’t do a search (which is what the magnifying glass is inferring). It automatically enters the text inserted as an instrument even though it may be erroneous. When the enter key is hit, it should preform a search instead.

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherS]

Hello cutzpr,

If you type the symbol and press the Enter key the instrument will be added to the list

To search you will need to left click on the magnifying glass icon

[roslja]

I think cutzpr has a valid point. I am glad this has been highlighted. Quite a few people are going to end up with some unexpected "stuff" in their lists of symbol before they figure out what is happening. This implementation is prone to mistakes, users should only be able to add valid symbols that exist in local NT database. If it's not there, then it should be added to the database first.

[cutzpr]

I think cutzpr has a valid point. I am glad this has been highlighted. Quite a few people are going to end up with some unexpected "stuff" in their lists of symbol before they figure out what is happening. This implementation is prone to mistakes, users should only be able to add valid symbols that exist in local NT database. If it's not there, then it should be added to the database first.

Extactly. Roslja hit it on the head

[NinjaTrader_DaveI]

That is interesting feedback, thank you guys for sharing. I've noted this in our feature tracking system, so we can start to track how many others run into this same confusion. (SFT-1133).

We have recently added a number of Help Guide pages related to some of our custom UI elements, including the Instrument Overlay Selector. You may find this info helpful:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/?window_tabs.htm