Customise User Interface Colours

Created at 30 Oct 2020, 07:56
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SmartArtsStudio

Joined 30.10.2020

Customise User Interface Colours
30 Oct 2020, 07:56


Hello

1) I wish to customise the Order Panel, Depth of Market Panel, I guess the UI colours in general to match my customised chart bar colours. If it is not possible through the User Interface is there a source file I can modify?

2) I'd also like to port some custom Drawing Tools to cTrader.

3) and add custom volume candle bars (width varies by volume)

But I have only been able to find programming info on custom Indicators and cBots.

Do you have some links that will point me in the right direction?

Thanks
 


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Replies

AJPWC
30 Oct 2020, 10:00

Expanding on your first point, I would also love the option to change the colour of the buy and sell quicktrade buttons to match my bull and bear candle colours.


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PanagiotisCharalampous
30 Oct 2020, 12:15

Hi SmartArtsStudio,

At the moment it is not possible to customize such functionality in cTrader.

Best Regards,

Panagiotis 

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SmartArtsStudio
30 Oct 2020, 21:49

Hi Panagiotis 
Do you know if there are already plans to, for any of the above points?

I suspect 1) custom UI colours, has the potential to require significant work to implement. But from what I have seen of cTrader/cAlgo and the API so far.
For 2) custom Drawing Tools and 3) custom chart Bar Styles, the functionality is already 100% built in ready to go. It just needs to be exposed in the identical way Custom Indicators and cBots are.

It could actually be exposed with as little as 4-5 lines of code that checks for a  "cAlgo\Sources\DrawingTools" folder as the drawing toolbar builds, and "cAlgo\Sources\BarStyles" folder as the Chart Properties Bar builds. The same checks again in cAlgo as the cBots and Indicator tabs are added, adding what ever is found in those folders to DrawingTools and BarStyle tabs. Identical to how Custom Indicators and cBots tabs already do it.

Also adding the existing DrawingTools and BarStyle source code in these folders, the same as Indicators and cBots already do will reduce the amount of questions about how to implement custom ones.

You may find the community implements a lot of your user feature requests for you, at the cost of literally a couple lines of code :)

(Custom drawing tools I should be able to implement as an indicator, but it would be really nice to add them where they belong.)

Thanks for your response.
Daniel


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PanagiotisCharalampous
02 Nov 2020, 08:23

Hi SmartArtsStudio,

We plan to add more customization options in future releases like the option to develop plug ins, but we have not started working on such features yet, hence you should not expect them in the next few versions. 

Best Regards,

Panagiotis 

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