Drawing Tools 1

Lines, shapes, and tool properties

Tool Properties

Configure how your drawings look.

The Properties panel controls appearance for new drawings and lets you modify existing ones. Set line width from 1 to 5, choose a line style (solid, dash, dot, dash-dot), and pick colors from a customizable palette with hex input support.

Text has its own color property separate from line color. Font size ranges from 8 to 24. For rectangles and lines with labels, you can position text in eight different locations.

The Filled checkbox controls whether rectangles draw with a fill or just a border. Click Apply to push all current settings to a selected object - including moving it to a different layer.

Lines

The foundation of technical analysis.

Trend lines connect two points. Click to set the start, drag to the end, release. Angled lines snap to preset angles: 0, 30, 45, 60, 90 degrees and their negatives. Rays extend infinitely from their anchor point in one direction.

Horizontal and vertical lines are single-click tools - click where you want them placed.

The Straighten tool converts any trend line to horizontal while enabling angle lock. Angle lock keeps lines at their current angle when you drag them - move position without changing slope.

Shapes

Mark zones and structure.

Rectangles come in three variants: border-only, filled, and with text. The fill state can be toggled in the Properties dialog at any time. Rectangle with text opens a naming dialog where you enter the label content.

The Path tool draws multi-segment lines. Click to place each point, building connected segments as you go. Press Ctrl+Backspace to undo the last segment while drawing.

Snap to Bar

Precision placement on candle boundaries.

The magnet feature snaps drawing anchors to bar boundaries. Sensitivity is configurable - higher values create a stronger pull toward OHLC points. Set to 0 to disable snapping entirely for freeform placement.

Complex Objects

Text creates grouped sublayers.

When you add text to a line or rectangle, PrismChart creates a sublayer relationship. The text object becomes a child of the parent shape, linked in the layer system.

This grouping means lock, hide, and delete operations propagate to all parts. Delete the parent and its text goes with it. The naming convention follows the pattern: if your rectangle is named FVG_001, its text becomes FVG_001_txt.

Use Ctrl+Shift+Q to delete a complex object and all its sublayers at once.