Drawing a Text Object

[Unsuitable]

Hi, so I'm making an indicator that has some buttons. Now, these buttons have text on them and I would like to create a new editable text object with a predetermined text inside them. Now the buttons and events handlers itself are all figured out, no worries there. Im wondering if its possible to toggle the text drawing tool with a text data already assigned. Now, this may not be possible, so my second idea is to just place the text at a default location but its still a editable text object.

Thanks

Edit: On NT7

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Unsuitable,

There isn't anything documented or supported by NinjaTrader Support for this.

There is a sample of adding buttons.
https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...olbar-buttons/

And there is a drawing toolbar script that uses a lot of unsupported code.
https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...lbar-shortcut/

It may be possible using a DrawText() or DrawFixedText() with one of these routes..


With the location, if its based on a draw method it would be confined to a location accepted as a parameter for these.
For an arbitrary location I'm not sure how that would work.

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[Unsuitable]

Ok, like I alluded to before, there is a way of just sending it to a default location and being able to move it around. Create an IText object with a set position then set the IText object's Locked property to false. Then you'll be able to move it around. My only problem now it treating as its own object separate from the indicator. At the moment, when I want to delete the text, it wants to delete the entire indicator. Is there any way of preventing this?

Edit: A quick AllowRemovalOfDrawObjects = true in the Initialize() method will do the trick. Hopes this helps some one else.