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Check out the new article: MQL5 Trading Tools (Part 19): Building an Interactive Tools Palette for Chart Drawing.
In this article, we build an interactive tools palette in MQL5 for chart drawing, with draggable, resizable panels and theme switching. We add buttons for tools like crosshair, trendlines, lines, rectangles, Fibonacci, text, and arrows, handling mouse events for activation and instructions. This system improves trading analysis through a customizable UI, supporting real-time interactions on charts.
The interactive tools palette for chart drawing centralizes buttons for essential functions like crosshairs, trendlines, lines, rectangles, Fibonacci, text, and arrows, enabling quick selection and application on trading charts with real-time feedback. It supports dragging, resizing, theme switching between dark and light modes, and minimizing to optimize the workspace, while providing instructions and status updates for intuitive use. This design streamlines analysis by offering a customizable, responsive UI that adapts to user interactions without cluttering the chart. We plan to use canvas objects for the header and panel, manage mouse events for interactivity, define enumerations for resize modes and tools, and handle drawing logic with object creation on charts. In brief, here is a visual representation of our objectives.
Author: Allan Munene Mutiiria