Ruler only works sometimes..

[bau250]

My ruler only works 50% of the time.

When I click the ruler on my chart to measure,, nothing happens at all. And the times it does work, it lags drastically and randomly measures in weird spots on the chart.

I've cleared all indicators on the chart, reloaded ninjascipt etc. Something must be hanging it up, but what??

Running quad core
sli 670's
16gb ram
64 bit

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Hello,

From the Drawing Tools menu, what do you have the "Snap Mode" set to? If it's on Price and Bar, it may act erratic as you try to measure the bars. I'd suggest setting this to Price if it is not already and testing this again. You may also set it to disable and check again for this behavior.

[bau250]

Saweeet!

Works like a charm now.

Thank you

What exactly does "snap mode" do?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Glad to hear that helped. I'm including documentation from our Help Guide on this feature:

Understanding snap mode:

Snap Mode
Drawing objects can be attached to price and/or time data within the chart by using any of the Snap Mode options available in the Drawing Tools menu:

Disabled
Disables "Snap Mode" and allows the drawing object anchor point(s) to be placed anywhere on the chart
Bar
Sets the x-axis value of drawing object anchor point(s) to the bar interval values only
Price
Sets the y-axis value of drawing object anchor point(s) to the Data Series OHLC and indicator price values only
Bar and Price
Sets the x and y-axis of drawing object anchor point(s) to be aligned with bar interval values, Data Series OHLC and indicator price values only

You can read more about understanding drawing tools from the following link:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/working_with_drawing_tools__ob.htm