Newbee Questions/Observations

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For the more experienced users, I have some questions/observations 
after my first couple days evaluating AmiBroker. I'll say I'm mostly 
very impressed, but frustrated by a few things.

The only menu that I get from right clicking anywhere on a chart is 
the indicator menu. Are the other object menus disabled in the 
evaluation version? If not, what could be preventing me from getting 
object specific menus when right clicking?

How do you activate line studies (like trendlines) to individually 
reposition/move them, delete them, etc.?

How do you reposition/move inner windows/panes? For example, if an 
indicator pane is below the price pane, and you prefer that it is 
above the price pane, how do you move it?

I have searched, but not discovered how to selectively eliminate 
horizontal gridlines from some panes, but not others (either as a 
preference or for individual panes). I'd like to have a centerline on 
oscillator panes, but do not want gridlines on other panes such as 
price and relative strength.

If there is no way to have a crosshair displayed, this would be a 
helpful addition to the program. Also the ability to automatically 
draw a parallel trendline (even on log-scale price plots) would be 
nice.

With the chart background set to dark grey (my preference), you cannot 
see the cursors for drawing line studies.

For me, the small crosshair cursor that is used to draw trendlines 
does not allow you to position the trendline with as much precision as 
a pencil or other pointer-type cursor would. When placed over a 
candlestick, the small crosshair cursor often overlays the candle 
wick/shadow making it difficult to position the beginning and end of 
the trendline exactly where you'd like it. I have the 'Price" color 
(candlestick outline) set to black, by the way.

AFL seems to be a real well thought out formula language. I was able 
to easily translate most of my MetaStock indicator code in one day and 
I'm finally able to do some things with relative strength comparatives 
that I've wanted to do for years.

Tim Gadd