Windows.Forms - Buttons - Sample Script

[HCSjunior]

Hi, could anybody please be so kind and provide a sample script for a button in NT8. Somehow, I did not get it to work.

Thanks for the help.

In NT7 I used somethink like:
VARIABLES:

#region Button Definition
private ToolStrip strip = null;
private ToolStripSeparator vTSS00;
private ToolStripButton vBtn00 = null; // Mo
private bool swBtn00 = true; // Mo
private bool swBtnP00 = true; // Mo
private string vBtnText00 = "Cloud_I/O";
#endregion Button Definition

FUNCTION:
#region MouseBtn00
private void hsBtn00(object s, EventArgs e)
{
if ( swBtn00 == false )
{
swBtn00 = true;
swBtnP00 = false;
vBtn00.ForeColor = Color.DarkGray;
vBtn00.BackColor = Color.Transparent;
}
else if (swBtn00 == true)
{
swBtn00 = false;
swBtnP00 = true;
vBtn00.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
vBtn00.BackColor = Color.LightGreen;
}

ChartControl.ChartPanel.Refresh();
}
#endregion MouseBtn00

OnStartUp():
Control[] tscontrol = ChartControl.Controls.Find("tsrTool",false);
if(tscontrol.Length > 0)
{
vBtn00 = new ToolStripButton(vBtnText00);
vBtn00.Click += hsBtn00;
vTSS00 = new ToolStripSeparator ();
strip = (ToolStrip) tscontrol[0];
strip.Items.Add(vTSS00);
strip.Items.Add(vBtn00);
vBtn00.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
vBtn00.BackColor = Color.LightGreen;
}
base.OnStartUp();

[gregid]

You won't be able to use Windows.Forms anymore as current WPF is completely different technology.

Saying this - could you NT guys provide us with at least chart Toolbar automationID so we could experiment (adding buttons to toolbar is possibly the most used customization of the chart in NT7 and I suppose it will be the same with NT8)

[-=Edge=-]

You won't be able to use Windows.Forms anymore as current WPF is completely different technology.

Yes and No.. I'm very much hoping we'll be able to utilize the System.Windows.Forms.Integration to bring in a ToolStrip, and/or at least a splitbutton.. As WPF doesn't have one by default, and it's a major pain to create one.. It would be so so much easier to utilize much of what I already have coded..

Saying this - could you NT guys provide us with at least chart Toolbar automationID so we could experiment (adding buttons to toolbar is possibly the most used customization of the chart in NT7 and I suppose it will be the same with NT8)

Yes, Please, or at least a hint or two.. I'm close, but yet so far.. And spending much too much time thinking about this, that could be spent on something much more productive.. Just adding a child doesn't seem to work, messes up the margins on both sides of the chart.. is it a child of a child maybe? heh..

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

You won't be able to use Windows.Forms anymore as current WPF is completely different technology.

Saying this - could you NT guys provide us with at least chart Toolbar automationID so we could experiment (adding buttons to toolbar is possibly the most used customization of the chart in NT7 and I suppose it will be the same with NT8)

We will be adding a toolbar automation ID in beta release 2 - NTEIGHT-8218