How to make indicator plots on chart non-selectable and non-draggable

[fx.practic]

Hello.

In NT7 this.ZOrder = -1; in OnStartup() makes indicator on chart non-selectable and non-draggable.

I tried same in NT8 when State == State.Historical - it don't work.

Is the way to do it? (I mean exactly indicator plots - not draw objects.)

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

In NinjaTrader 7 setting the z-order for an indicator was not supported. However, I will research to see if there is a way to lock the plots of a script to make these non-selectable.

[fx.practic]

Thank You, I'm wait with impatience!

As for my - it's just absolute necessary: if there are a lot of indicators plots on chart, each second mouse click select indicator, each fourth click opens "Indicators" dialogue, each tenth click drag indicator to somewhere.

[gubbar924]

if its for your own personal use, would something as simple as setting AllowSelectionDragging=false work for you?

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/chartcontrol_properties.htm

[fx.practic]

Hah! gubbar924 that's exactly what I need, thanks a lot!

This work for me:

else if( State == State.DataLoaded )
{
ChartControl.Properties.AllowSelectionDragging = false;
}

NT8 have so many checkboxes in different places ))

I honestly tried to search in manual very different variants of *drag* and *select* - but search engine don't search parts of words.

2 NT support #1: I still sure, it is useful to have possibility to select ability and drag ability separately for each indicator inside of it's code.

2 NT support #2: May be, due to a significant increase in the volume of documentation, It can be useful make some kind of advanced search features in online NT8 documentation?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello fx.practic,

From my understanding setting ChartControl.Properties.AllowSelectionDragging will not be on a per indicator or per plot basis and would be for all items added to that chart.

I was not able to find a way to control this on a per plot or per indicator basis and I have submitted a feature request on your behalf for the NinjaTrader Development to consider adding this functionality to a future version of NinjaTrader.

This feature request is being tracked with ID #SFT-2005.

[crokusek]

Omg. this makes a huge difference in render speed as well when switching charts or dragging.
For customers with lots of plots or drawn shapes this feels like a new graphics card.

It could be the "hit test" code within graphics card that causes the slowness since I'm on a low end NVIDIA GeForce 210.