Tooltip causes crosshair glitch

[neoikon]

private Control screenControl;

I was hoping to not use a generic Control type. However, using a little brute force, it seems to be NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart.ChartCanvas

for (int x = 0; x <= ChartControl.Controls.Count - 1; x++)
{
   Print(ChartControl.Controls[x].Name + " : " + ChartControl.Controls[x].GetType().ToString());
}

Unfortunately, it's "inaccessible due it's protection level". So, generic it is!

I spent some time with this problem in the past (months ago) and I'm running into the same problem as before... adding a ToolTip to a IDrawObject isn't easy.

I've been trying to put the Draw Object into some kind of container Control, that I can add a ToolTip to. No luck.

I've tried adding a separate, invisible object that is simply in the same place as the Draw Object, but I can only get it to draw at a fixed place on the chart and not something that will move as the chart moves.

Any suggestions?

Daniel

[adamus]

There will be ways of doing it - in Windows, anything is possible ... but be careful, as in "give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves".

I found this potential solution for you on stackexchange, if you are prepared to mess around with forms:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2204151/tooltip-thats-not-linked-to-any-particular-control

[neoikon]

Thank you for the reply. I'm just about to give up on this...

When dealing with forms, it's difficult to have it move and resize when the chart changes locations (which was the problem I was having before when trying to place an "invisible" object that gets triggered). I can place the object on the chart, make the tooltip appear on the object, but the object isn't anywhere near the draw object itself (since it's fixed on one spot on the chart).

Further, I can't seem to attach any kind of mouse event handlers to these draw objects, so I can't trigger showing my own message (that's not a "tooltip" per se, but just a fixed message somewhere on the chart).

Not sure where to go from here.

Where's NT8?

Daniel