How to create some buttons inside drawing tool?

[franjcy]

Hi Folks!

I'm trying to create some buttons or something that when I click on it, does some actions.


The thing is I'm inside drawing tool and using UserControlCollection.Contains(myGrid) .. to create buttons or grid don't work.

So I need is when editing the drawing tool a buttons or something appear.


Thanks,.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello franjcy,

Unfortunately, the UserControlCollection is not available to Drawing tool scripts, market analyzer column scripts, superdom column scripts, or other scripts that are not indicators or strategies.

It would be recommended to use an indicator for this functionality instead.


That said, if it must be in an indicator, you could render a rectangle at specific coordinates, and check the mouse coordinates from an event handler added to the chartControl.MouseDown event.

I was testing this some time ago and still have my test script you may find helpful.
RectToMouseXYTest_NT8.zip

[franjcy]

Hello franjcy,

Unfortunately, the UserControlCollection is not available to Drawing tool scripts, market analyzer column scripts, superdom column scripts, or other scripts that are not indicators or strategies.

It would be recommended to use an indicator for this functionality instead.


That said, if it must be in an indicator, you could render a rectangle at specific coordinates, and check the mouse coordinates from an event handler added to the chartControl.MouseDown event.

I was testing this some time ago and still have my test script you may find helpful.
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Thanks for your answer, it's useful.

Finally, I achieved insert buttons on DrawingTool with a StackPanel, like this:

chartControl.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync(() =>
{
try
{
var chartWindow = System.Windows.Window.GetWindow(chartControl);
var mainGrid = chartWindow.Content as Grid;

if (mainGrid != null)
{
// Creamos un StackPanel para contener los botones.
buttonPanel = new StackPanel
{
Orientation = Orientation.Vertical,
HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left,
VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top

...

};