MessageBox PopUp- Alert

April 21st, 2010, 05:36 AM

Here is the trick with using the Windows PopUp MessageBox as an alert i talked about with perry.

this win-popup-window comes as a "always on top-popup" in the middle of your sreen if your signal is valid + you have to klick it away / klick OK to proceed with your trading-stuff. But it does not freeze or stop NT working somehow - no problems with this.
it can be very good to catch your attention but can also be annoying, depending on how fast your charts + signals are.

its a while back i used it - so i dont rember all details - but this if (!Historical) is important as far as i know.

it can be used in all kind of indicators / conditions but it should be used with a kind of cross-over conditions or something like this that is valid only in 1 or 2 Bars --
otherwise (iE if you code something like : if (EMA10 > EMA 50) ) you get a popup every single bar this condition is true !

Code

                            
        if   (  your condition  )

        

        { 



                    

if (!Historical) 

MessageBox.Show("#########  NQ  NQ NQ   #########!   DOT Alert !!   

#########\n!   Ready to Enter the Market !  ******#########!");   



    

        }

The red stuff comes up as text in the box.

Idea :
Maybe there is also remove-comand working / available for this, like for the other drawobjects - but i dont know.

Have Fun with it !

BTW - as said yet : this is NOT an offical NT-function - so its not supported from the NT-forum- guys - whatever this means ....

April 21st, 2010, 08:06 AM

You might need to add using System.Windows.Forms to that... but check it first.

April 21st, 2010, 09:21 AM

Hey MX,
you are right , thanks a bunch for remembering that !

so folks, to make the popup work please add this :
using System.Windows.Forms;

to the very first section in the indicator-codes -
example here :

Code

                            
 #region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;

using System.Windows.Forms;
#endregion

max
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Jura · April 22nd, 2010, 09:25 AM

Great thread, quite helpful for people who want to create a message pop-up.

max-td

Hey MX,
you are right , thanks a bunch for remembering that !

so folks, to make the popup work please add this :
using System.Windows.Forms;

to the very first section in the indicator-codes -
example here :

Code

                            
 #region Using declarations
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;
 
using System.Windows.Forms;
#endregion

max
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Indeed. Here's how I implemented it some time ago (just as an example for other people, I don't want to show off my non-existing programming skills.

)

Code


// Showing the popup (if on)
if( popup == true && !Historical)
{
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Now.ToString() + "\n\nThe MACD just crossed above it's average above \nthe " + bullishZone + " level,"
+ "in instrument " + Instrument.FullName + ".", Instrument.FullName + " MACD Alert!");
}

Regards,

April 24th, 2010, 09:29 AM

More usage details here:

MessageBox.Show Method (System.Windows.Forms)

I've just added this to an indicator I'm working on:

Code

                            
MessageBox.Show("Hedge Instrument field is blank or the same as the Quoted instrument. This will create Overflow errors.", "Warning!", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation );

Probably not something you want to use all the time but useful in some situations.