Detecting key press event in selected DrawingTool

[CycleArt]

Hi,
Is there any way to detect that the user pressed a key when a custom DrawingTool on a chart was selected? I would like to detect it within the custom DrawingTool.

Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello CycleArt,

Thanks for your inquiry.

Within the GetCursor() method, you could check the DrawingState of the Drawing object to see if it is selected.

As a rough example, you may consider the following:

private bool selected = false;
private bool doOnce = true;

public override Cursor GetCursor(ChartControl chartControl, ChartPanel chartPanel, ChartScale chartScale, Point point)
{
	if (DrawingState == DrawingState.Normal)
		selected = true;
	else
	{
		selected  = false;
		doOnce = true;
	}
	
	if(selected && doOnce)
	{			
		Print(DrawingState.ToString());
		doOnce = false;
	}
}

Detecting button presses can be done through C# by using System.Windows.Input.Keyboard.IsKeyDown. This concept is external to NinjaScript and would be referenced on the MSDN documentation page for usage.

System.Windows.Input.Keyboard.IsKeyDown - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...v=vs.110).aspx

Publicly available documentation on GetCursor() can be found here - https://ninjatrader.com/support/help.../getcursor.htm

Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

[CycleArt]

Thank you, Jim!