Question about reporting data based on where you click on a chart?

[forrestang]

Hello.

I am wondering if anyone has created an indicator at some point, that would output information either to the chart, or to the output window based on a location/bar that you click on? Obviously this would likely be behavior supported by NT, so asking those that may know.

For example, obviously you could get this info with the middle mouse button, but this is just for illustrative purposes... but say you wanted an indie that once loaded onto the chart, woudl simply output the High price of a bar when you clicked on it... and either plot that to output window, or to the chart... How would you go about doing this?

Essentially, reporting some conditions you create, based on click functionality?

Just looking for the general idea of how this could be accomplished?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello forrestang,

This would not be supported for NinjaTrader 7 but it is possible.
There is an indicator that has unsupported code that gets the mouse x and y.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?linkid=626

There is an example of this for NinjaTrader 8 that uses supported/documented methods.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?p=499684#post499684

[forrestang]

So the general idea seems to be...

First I need to acquire the cursor X and Y position?

Next I would need to know when the button is pressed, and capture that X and Y position?

Possibly an On/Off switch also to enable/disable this feature so normal chart functionalities can resume?

Hmmm...

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello forrestang,

The steps would be to

Add an event handler to the mouse button click event

Capture the mouse x and y position

Use this to choose a bar

Display the information for that bar