Setting the Style of menu items / buttons

[soulfx]

Hello,

I have an NTMenuItem i set up and then attach to chartcontrol parent.
All good

I set the style of this as follows :

Margin = new System.Windows.Thickness(0),
Padding = new System.Windows.Thickness(1),
VerticalAlignment = System.Windows.VerticalAlignment.Center,
Style = System.Windows.Application.Current.TryFindResource ("MainMenuItem") as System.Windows.Style

I then add a ToggleButton new System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ToggleButton();

And wanting to set this to be the same style as menuitem -
when skin color is changed in ninja from dark to light i want them to be in synch.

At moment i am setting the Foreground of the togglebutton

but tried to set the Style and it seemed to mess up the format and layout.

Is the problem that i only set the style and not try to set other attributes .. as i still had other parts ie FontFamily FontSize adn Background set.

wondering how to align the styles and in order to manage different background and skins selected by user

thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jim]

Hello soulfx,

Thanks for opening the thread.

Here's what I have put together when adding my own ToggleButton to an indicator that modifies WPF controls:

The default style appears to be a generic WPF style. I do not know of an instance where this is used in NinjaTrader 8 and the vanilla style tells me it isn't included internally.

As there is no style for this, you will have to create your own. You could use properties used from other elements to rebuild a style that can inherit the colors set in a skin.

As a rough example:

myToggleButtonBackground = myButton.GetValue(System.Windows.Controls.Control.BackgroundProperty) as SolidColorBrush;

myToggleButtonBackgound can then be set when creating the ToggleButton or when creating a Style.

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.