drawing tools and mouse clicks

Subject:: Drawing Tool and mouse clicks


Thanks to those who respond, it is appreciated!

I am new to MT and have some questions about programming. I want to program a drawing
tool that utilitizes a 3 point mouse click (initiated by the user versus an automated tool). Is MT designed for this? Does MT utilitize a bitmap pixel system? If so could you provide a short primer on this?

Thanks again for your help!

Db3, welcome to the forum.

Simple answer to your question ("is MT4 designed for this?") is no. MT4 has a number of predefined objects and line studies that you can drag onto your charts using predefined mouse clicks. You can use the MQL4 programming language to have the same indicators, objects and/or line studies automatically plotted, but you can't really define new objects (however, you could, for example, plot a fibonacci spiral by plotting a number of very small connected trendlines), nor can you redefine the keystrokes/mouse clicks used to plot the predefined objects. To redefine your keyboard you'd need to use some 'external' software like autohotkey.

MT4 navigational tips and techniques here.

Thanks for your explanation!!