removing some buttons from chart

[ssylwester]

Hi,
In NT7, is there a way to selectively remove some of the items on the toolbar list at the top of the chart? Many of them i seldom use, particularly on charts that are running strategies, and it would be useful to trim down the size.
SS

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

ssylwester, this is not supported.

[Dexter]

Hi ssylwester,

there is a somewhat feasible way to do this. You can remove the chart buttons by key, if you know the name of the control. Say for example, you want to remove the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons for some reason, add this to your OnStartUp() or Initialize():

if((MessageBox.Show("Remove default buttons from chart?", "Title", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo)) == DialogResult.Yes)
{	
	Control[] tsr = ChartControl.Controls.Find("tsrTool", false);
	if(tsr != null)
	{	
		toolStrip = (ToolStrip) tsr[0];
		if(toolStrip != null)
		{
			toolStrip.Items.RemoveByKey("btnZoomIn");
			toolStrip.Items.RemoveByKey("btnZoomOut");
		}
	}			
}

Note this is fairly destructive code and the only way I know of to restore the buttons is to recreate the chart. Here is the list (in order) of all the names of the items & buttons on the default chart toolbar. You can remove any using the above method.

toolStripSeperator9
btnInstrument
btnPeriod
toolStripSeparator1
btnChartStyle
btnDraw
btnZoomIn
btnZoomOut
toolStripSeparator2
btnCursor
btnDataBox
toolStripSeparator3
btnChartTrader
btnDataSeries
btnIndicators
btnStrategies
btnProperties

edit: Realizing the logic is backwards if you only want to keep a few, I tried the below code, but it doesn't loop right. Every time you refresh the NinjaScript it would delete one button, instead of all of them at once so the above method is best.

foreach(ToolStripItem t in toolStrip.Items)
{
	// only keep the zoom in button for example
	if(t.Name != "btnZoomIn")
		toolStrip.Items.RemoveByKey(t.Name);
}

[ssylwester]

Dexter
Thanks so much, very much appreciated.

I am getting an error with
toolStrip=(ToolStrip) tsr[0];

NT telling me toolStrip does not exist in current context, err cs0103
am i missing a declaration somewhere?

[Dexter]

Hi ssylwester,
Oops, yes! I forgot I had created the variable in my variables section of code. You can simply change it to this:

ToolStrip toolStrip = (ToolStrip) tsr[0];

You'll also need to add 'using System.Windows.Forms;' to your using section but it sounds like that's been done. Give that a try and let me know.

[ssylwester]

That did the trick, thanks much