Toolbar Buttons

[snaphook]

How does one drag a button w/o clicking it?

I suspect if you put a button in a dialog form, set it to be on top, you could then move it around anywhere you'd like. Take a look at my Notes Panel or WorkspaceChanger in NT7 Indies for examples of opening a form.

[cassb]

Thanks for all this work, guys!

Does anyone know if a button on the chart panel could be made click-draggable around the panel? Or can it only be in one fixed position?

Bryan

[snaphook]

It needs something added to trigger a trade such as a MA crossover. Right now it places trades if Close = High or Low of Bar. I put these in as dummy requirements for illustration only. Check lines 163 and 165.

Edit: I just noticed an oversight.

Lines 177 should be:
if(trade.Contains("L") && btnLongEntry.Text == "Enter Long")

and 184 should be:
if(trade.Contains("S") && btnShortEntry.Text == "Sell Short")

[woodies]

@snaphook

Thanks for sharing toolbar code for buttons.

Can it be used as is or it needs addition of actions for trade managment after OnClick event?

When I place it on a chart, it spontaneously opens orders.

[fosch]

All I did was add,

private System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip ts2 = new ToolStrip();

to #region Variables

and then,

ChartControl.Controls.Add(ts2);

to OnStartUp()

[snaphook]

What do you add to create a new toolbar. I'd be interested.

[fosch]

Thanks Snaphook,

Yeah. I've tried many permutations. I actually am able to add a toolbar, but it is always above the Ninja Toolbar, and I cannot add buttons to it. Also, once added. I cannot get rid of it like I can the buttons. Real bummer.

Thanks for your reply.

fosch

[snaphook]

I've never tried to add a new toolbar.

I am not really a programmer, but a follower of examples and a copy cat and sometimes it is tough to follow some of the examples on the net and translate them to NT.

I'm not sure how, or if, you can do it. I think I read a post by one of the NT guys, wonder why there are no gals, that NT was written in such a manner that you can not add new toolbars.

good luck.

[fosch]

Hi snaphook,

I've been trying to move your buttons and separtors to a 2nd toolbar (just below the Ninja toolbar). But unfortunately, I cannot get it to work.

I've been told that I need to add:

Toolstrip ts = new ToolStrip();
ChartControl.Controls.Add(ts);

I just can't figure out where to place this code? Do you know how to do it in your code? Any assistance you could provide would be most greatly appreciated.

fosch

[Baseheadz]

Hi I was wondering if anybody was having issues with this strategy in NT 7.01000.6?

I started the strategy, immediately turned off the auto-trading so that the "Manual" was in red and then I turned off long entries as well. Then the strategy started to taking long trades on it's own.

Is this an issue that only I'm seeing?

[alfa123]

Thanks for your comments.Buttons always work with tool bar.this is a strategy not an indicator.But may be possible to modify in future.

[tonynt]

Snaphook,

great work. Thanks for sharing this. Did you ever think about changing it this way so that you can add the buttons vertically in the chart? (Because the toolbar is getting so extended and the chart too)

Just an idea.

Thanks again and best regards
Tony

[alfa123]

nice work.carry on

[snaphook]

Another update

This adds:
1) A Flatten button that immediately closes open positions,
2) separators between the buttons,
3) a confirmation Message Box when entering Auto Trading from Manual trading.

[britfish]

Excellent!

Here is a modification that allows for auto and manual entries.

It adds two buttons for manual entry. The Auto button must be set to Manual and the Long or Short entry buttons enabled (Green). Then a click on either manual button will place a market order, Long or Short.

I hope there aren't too many errors.

Many thanks. This is much more than I expected. Much appreciated.