Collecting two mouse click point from indicator

[nandhumca]

HI, I want to collect two mouse click point and draw line between two points from my indicator. How to collect two mouse click points ?

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

I'm attaching two examples below, one will print the price and time of the clicked position, and one will draw a drawing object where the mouse is clicked. You'd want to grab the x/y coordinates of the first click, convert those to a time and price, wait for the second click, get the time and price of those, and then use those times and prices as the anchors for the line.

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[nandhumca]

Thanks Kate. As per your suggestion, drawing tool has to remember the first click details? In my use case , after i clicked my drawing tool icon , i want to capture next two mouse clicks. I don't want capture all the mouse clicks. Until I do my second click, mouse cursor symbol should not change back to normal from pen .

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello nandhumca,

Thank you for your reply.

In this case, you would not be clicking on the drawing tool and drawing using that tool - you would simply click once on the chart, get the x-y coordinates and translate those to a price/time, save those to variables, maybe something like Click1Price = whatever price it was at and then Click1Time for the time on the x-axis the click was at, then click a second time at your desired end point, again get the x-y coordinates and translate those to a price/time and save the second click's price and time to another set of variables. Then you can simply call Draw.Line() to draw the line from the script using those prices and times you saved from the mouse clicks as the start and end point price and times.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.