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AmiBroker 3.30 Beta-5
Release Notes
June
19, 2000 18:46
<FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">BETA INFORMATION
This document discusses a
Beta release of AmiBroker. The information in this document is provided as-is
and is subject to change without notice. No formal product support is available
for this Beta product.
You should be awareof the
fact that beta release is not complete software and may contain bugs,
incompatibilities and other errors. You should always back-up your data
and never overwrite existing data and/or program files with the files
coming with this beta version.
INSTALLATION
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT: If you haven't
installed AmiBroker 3.25 before you have to do it before trying this beta
version.
Make a copy of the directory
where you installed previous (3.25) version.Then unpack the beta archive to
this new directory. The archive comes with a new "Broker.exe" and "CoolTool.dll"
program files. Third file, "Brokey.dll", needed to run AmiBroker comes from
your old version and it is NOT included in the beta archive.
Then run AmiBroker.You
should see "AmiBroker 3.30 (beta-5)" written in the About box.
CHANGES
the ability to save the
location of a custom indicator's window ("Save layout" option in the right
mouse button menu)
the current price to the
Portfolio manager's details
upto 8 recent database
locations are available in File menu for quick open
the ability to skip what
AmiBroker thinks are splits, then find the next
individual RS settings
for group/industry/market (evaluated in this order)
the ability to have
custom indicators display upon booting ("Save layout" option(
a visible indicator of
when the database is changed
Enhanced database engine:
ability to load database partially at start and load the rest on demand. This
feature speeds up both loading and savind and allows to use AmiBroker on
machines equipped with less memory (Preferences/Miscellanous)
Enhanced analysis
support: Stop conditions and short-positions available during
auto-analysis.
Enhanced quick-review and
analysis windows support now filtering by market, group, sector, industry.
Also double-click on the quick-review list will display its chart
immediatelly
indicate the price under
the pointer's hot spot (Price data tooltips - Prefs/Miscellanous)
Assignments to
sectors/industries.
Position and state of
toolbars is remembered between runs
Fixed out-of-bound array
access when using AFL with very short quotation histories
Fixed minor memory leak
when using Review/Analysis tools
Handling $DATE_*** format
definition commands fixed Bug fix Import & export tools
Built-in companyProfile
view using embedded web-browser (Win32) or multiview(Amiga)
Built-in assignment
organizer
Handling composites:
automatic recalculation of number of advancing/declining/unchanged
issues
Adjusting trendlines
after split
Removed excessive
line-feeds added when saving AFL formulas to a file
<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size=2>Market/Group/Sector/Industry information is now workspace-related (not
global anymore)
BETA-2 CHANGES
Fixed handling quotation
marks in ASCII importer
Fixed saving
advances-declines information to the workspace file (previous version saved
some random stuff)
Better handling of sizing
of the splitter window
BETA-3 CHANGES
Fixed nasty bug in ASCII
importer introduced in Beta-2 making import option unusable
TRIN indicator added
(with two exponential moving averages 10 + 30 day)
A number of new AFL
functions added: AdvIssues(), DecIssues(), UncIssues(), AdvVolume(),
DecVolume(), UncVolume(), Trin()
Fixed right-mouse-button
+ SHIFT (chart reselection) menu handling
BETA-4 CHANGES
Added $APPENDTICKER,
$OVERWRITE, $FULLNAME, $INDUSTRY, $RECALCVOL, $RECALCAD commands and
APPENDTICKER, ADVISSUES, ADVVOLUME, DECISSUES, DECVOLUME, UNCISSUES, UNCVOLUME
field identifiers to the ASCII importer definitions
Fixed memory handling bug
sometimes causing crashes of Automatic analysis window
"Save Results" option in
Automatic analysis window now works (worked in Amiga version but it didn't in
Win32)
BETA-5 CHANGES
Ticker symbols now can
contain file-system reserved characters such as *, ?, #, <, >, |, /, \.
These characters are replaced by underscore _ in appropriate file name (ticker
however remains unchanged).
Added full support for
composite data handling (advances, declines, unchanged) to the OLE automation
interface: new objects Markets (collection), Market, ADQuotations
(collection), ADQuotation
AFL interpreter now
displays meaningful error messages in AFL error window (already implemented on
Amiga)
AD-Line indicator
added
changed TRIN indicator
look/scaling
Preferences dialog now
handles "Apply now" button correctly
New settings forTRIN
averages
Fixed "Save Workspace As"
crash occuring when trying to save partially loaded database to another
location
AFL file dialog now
"remebers" its last directory (Win32)
THINGS NOT IMPLEMENTED
YET
There is nothing left to do
in version 3.30. Beta-5 is the last one before full product release. Full
product may, however, contain fixes to bugs found after the release of this
beta.
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation on new
features will be available with full version 3.30 of AmiBroker. Additional
information will be posted later to <A
href="">AmiBroker web page and/or <A
href="">AmiBroker mailing
list.
<FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">HO<FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">W TO REPORT BUGS
If you experience any
problem with this beta version please send detailed description of the problem
(especially the steps needed to reproduce it) to <A
href="">tjaneczk@xxxxxx
Best regards,Tomasz
Janeczko===============AmiBroker - the comprehensive share
manager.Web site: <A
href="">http://www.amibroker.w.plMailinglist:
<A
href="">amibroker@xxxx
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