Get datetime and price on mouseclick and write to text file

[mishhh]

Hi,
Newbie here

I explored NT8 for few days to this point
and I wanted to put something together, for learning purposes:

1. click on chart
2. get time and price information under mouse
3. write them into a text file

i'm not even sure if this must be an indicator, or ... a drawing tool?


I browsed quite a lot the docs, but right now i'm confused to be honest.



I would guess i have to use some of these statements / functions that i found in docs:

chartControl.MouseDownPoint;
chartControl.MouseDownPoint.X.ConvertToHorizontalP ixels(chartControl.PresentationSource);
ChartBars.GetBarIdxByX
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("some_file.txt");

but right now I'm clueless of how to put this together.


Can someone help me with some pseudocode, and some pointers about how to organize all this?

I presume i would have to write inside the OnMouseDown() event?
Do i have to take care of DrawingState or something?

I still try to figure out the structure i need, but docs are too complex for me right now, too much info and terms.
I hope someone can help me get this done faster

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello mishhh,

There are a few examples on the forums I am linking below.

Mouse coordinates to price and time - http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum...045#post513045

Writing to file reference sample - https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...ead.php?t=3475