Modifications to chart WPF elements and tab considerations

[Bidder]

As part of the community, why not contribute the technique that you used?
This could be very helpful to someone else someday.

The concept at hand in the above quote was how to obtain automation id's...

When working with anything WPF related let your hair grow back in and use the live visual tree in Vs2019 or Vs2022

[QuantKey_Bruce]

Yes, that makes perfect sense. Good idea.

[rare312]

Hello community.
I'm looking for a way to place wpf/winform Control behind the ChartBars and any other ChartObject.
UsercontrolCollection/ChartControl.Children and all their parents are always on top of all ChartObjects. Doesn't work in this case.
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello rare312,

This would not be possible. The chart rendering area is a SharpDX RenderTarget and is not WPF. The UserControlCollection is a WPF area that is just layered on top of the chart renderer.

You can render things in OnRender() under the chart bars or other chart objects.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/rendering.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/sharpdx_direct2d1_rendertarget.htm

[rare312]

Hello rare312,

This would not be possible. The chart rendering area is a SharpDX RenderTarget and is not WPF. The UserControlCollection is a WPF area that is just layered on top of the chart renderer.

You can render things in OnRender() under the chart bars or other chart objects.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/rendering.htm

https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ndertarget.htm

Hey Chelsea.
Thank you for response.
Yes. I know it. That's why I was asking about some other collection or Control. Not UserControlCollection.
So I checked every child, starting from Chart and down to ChartControl.
I was able to add my control to every of it. But it was on top of ChartObjects every time.

[Mindset]

Anyone know how to add more buttons to the toptoolbar (NOT the titlebar)?
thanks in anticipation.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Mindset,

Are you referring to adding objects to the toolbarTopHorizontalStackPanel in the example?

Create the button object and use toolbarTopHorizontalStackPanel.Add(UIElement) to add the button.

[Mindset]

Hi ChelseaB
thanks for the prompt reply.
I had done that and realised that it is placing my stack2panel over my stack1 panel.
I can get the buttons sort of aligned by changing the margins but it's finicky.
Is there anyway to get the code to automate the size of the button according to the content?

[Mindset]

Hi Dougtre,
Try these files.

Can't tell you how much this simple file helped me. Thank you very much indeed.

[Pabulon]

Dear ChelseaB

Is it possible to attach ATM Strategy to the button in ChartTrader? So that when I press for example button "4", it will select ATM Strategy named "4 contracts". Which means the next trade I take it will use 4 contracts and place TP and SL according to that ATM Strategy?

I'm using your piece of code to help me being aware of how many contracts I'm playing with but it lacks automatization. It would be so cool if actualy clicking a button would also select ATM Strategy. Just select, no trigger.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Pabulon,

You can try changing the AtmStrategySelector.SelectedValue.

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/1142258-how-do-i-set-the-atmstrategyselector-to-none?p=1142309#post1142309

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/article/Chart-Trader-UI-Elements-from-Automation-IDs

[Pabulon]

Hello Pabulon,

You can try changing the AtmStrategySelector.SelectedValue.

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/1142258-how-do-i-set-the-atmstrategyselector-to-none?p=1142309#post1142309

https://support.ninjatrader.com/s/ar...Automation-IDs

Wonderful, thank You so much.
Btw. This should be built in in the core NinjaTrader code in my opinion. Picking ATM strategy with buttons together with water mark on the chart.

[Ducman_nl]

Chelsea, is there a way to add fields to the Chart Trader to manipulate Strategy integer variables on the fly? I have seen the "shell" example where you open a window to transfer values via an Add-on but I would like to have it integrated together with my Buttons and Check Boxes.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Ducman_nl,

Yes, this is possible.

Using the SampleWPFModifications as an example, add your own UIElement Controls to the chart trader grid instead of buttons.

For any text input you will need to suppress the instrument overlay selector with unsupported code.

https://forum.ninjatrader.com/forum/ninjatrader-8/platform-technical-support-aa/108264-can-wav-file-be-activated-when-order-entry-hot-key-is-pressed#post831756

[Ducman_nl]

Okay, and then you update the Strategy variable using a to be created VariableX_ValueChanged event?