Place a button at X and Y coordinates on ChartControl

[JohnSteinberg]

Hi,

I am developing an indicator that needs to place a button on the ChartControl (not in the toolbar) at specific X and Y coordinates. I already have the correct X and Y and it would help if I could get to the Canvas that hosts the ChartControl because then I can use Canvas.SetTop and Canvas.SetLeft, just cannot seem to get to the Canvas.

Could you please direct me to a way to do this even if it is unsupported?

Thanks,
John

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello John,

I would not be able to assist in providing the canvas which is not supported to do by NinjaTrader Support. (I don't think a canvas is used for SharpDX, but I may be incorrect about this)

However, you can render items and detect the x and y coordinates. Below is a link to an example of this.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?p=463838#post463838

You can use the UserControlCollection to add a grid and control where items appear using the wpf grid. Below is a link to an example of this.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?linkid=697

[JohnSteinberg]

Thanks for the reply Chelsea.

I was looking specifically for a button to just be able to handle the click event on it. I was trying to avoid implementing the code for detecting mouse clicks and hovers etc. on custom drawn objects.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello John,

Then add the button to the UserControlCollection as demonstrated in the 'NT 8 - LONG SHORT Toolbar Buttons' example I have linked in my previous post.

[JohnSteinberg]

Thanks for the feedback Chelsea

[fx.practic]

And is there any way to set exact (x, y) location for Grid and for other controls, added to UserControlCollection ?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

The UserControlCollection takes up the entire chart control area and is WPF. This is not SharpDX.

The position of objects in here is controlled with normal wpf. Meaning you can add a grid and control the widths of the rows and columns. You can set margin and padding of objects.