Add items to chart menu

[Raditz]

In NT7 I used:
this.ChartControl.ContextMenuStrip.Items.Insert(id , item);
To add ToolStripMenuItem to the chart context menu

Any hint to get this ported to NT8?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

I have attached a sample showing one way to do this.

In this case I have used

ChartControl.ContextMenu.Items

I look forward to being of further assistance.

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In this case I have used

ChartControl.ContextMenu.Items

I look forward to being of further assistance.

How would you do this for the ContextMenu of a selected drawobject and/or indicator plot?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Excellent question.

It appears that the collection used for the ChartControl.Context.Items is being changed depending on what is selected.

I am gathering further clairfication on the specifics on the dynamic context menu and what collections etc are being used to populate the items.

There is likely a better way to add items to specific context menus through the platform with further clarification on where these collections are.

I look forward to being of further assistance,

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Excellent question. I am gathering further clairfication on the specifics on the dynamic context menu and what collections etc are being used to populate the items.,

Thanks.. Patiently await your solution..

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

It looks like because of the nature of the context menus and how they are being dynamically built, more logic was needed to determine what is being clicked and to subscribe to the ContextMenuOpened and ContextMenuClosed events.

I have provided a sample below, to test this you would need to do the following:

• Create a chart
• Apply the SMA and EMA indicators on the chart.
• Apply the SampleMultiContextMenu indicator to the same chart.

Now right click on the chart control and notice no difference, Then right click on each of the indicators lines, you should see that the EMA and SMA both have separate custom context menu items that are added.

This is simply checking the Type of the first found selected item on the chart which in theory should be what you are clicking, then the type is used as the comparison to determine what menu item is added in the opening event.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[Raditz]

Connect hot key to the custom menu item

Hi

Code SampleContextMenu.zip work good

Want to connect hot key to the menu, following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4682915/defining-menuitem-shortcuts

seem need to add to Window.InputBindings
Not sure how this map to the indicator code,

Any hint will be appreciated

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the question.

Currently there are no documented approaches at adding custom Hotkeys from script as this is currently managed with the Hotkey manager. There is currently a feature request in for further hotkey support in NinjaScript specifically.

I will look into the sample to see if there is anyway to do what you had provided without using xaml as this example does not utilize xaml. If I can locate anything I will reply back here.


I look forward to being of further assistance.