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YT> Hi Graham,
Amended comment below:
YT> Thursday, August 12, 2004, 1:37:19 PM, you wrote:
G>> Yuki, can you make the data into a text file (csv) by copy/paste
G>> and import this to AB. Should be relatively easy to do with excel
G>> to create the right format from your data source.
YT> More than anything, Graham, is simply the awkwardness with which
YT> manual updates have to be accomplished via the QE. I think a lot
YT> more people than perhaps is commonly suspected update a fair amount
YT> of data by hand. I'd really like an AB tool that opens a smallish
YT> window that can be placed over my trading screen or other data
YT> source, and which can save data to a local AB database. (Can this
YT> really be that difficult to make? It's a database reader and writer
YT> is all.)
YT> I'd really like to move away from MS data, period. I don't use MS any
YT> longer. But, AB has no comfortable way to update manually -- I'm
YT> talking about symbol-by-symbol from a trading screen or other screen
YT> source. The data has to either be in your head, or you have to
YT> perform screen gymnastics to get the job done -- gymnastics that
YT> require AB's toolbars to be constantly repositioned, because they
YT> refuse to stay where they are positioned when AB changes its screen
YT> shape, and/or gymnastics that require a resizing of the trading
YT> screen.
YT> A small applet external to AB (if it *needs* to be external) that can
YT> read and write to a local AB database is all that is needed. The
YT> original Equis people had the right idea when they made the DL. It
YT> should be external to the T/A application, so that it can be
YT> positioned anywhere. Source data that is going to be input does not
YT> already exist inside the T/A application. It is external, and needs
YT> to be accessed with the T/A app out of the way. If I could MINIMIZE
YT> AB while the QE was open, I'd be in heaven I think. ^_^ But the
YT> damn QE window won't give up the focus, except to an external
YT> program.
Actually, it does give up the focus to AB, and you can minimize AB
while the QE is open -- but, QE gets minimized along with AB, so the
trick is useless. This is why the data input application should be
separate from the T/A application. I'm sorry TJ, but Equis got this
part correct right from the get go. They got little else correct,
but they score points over AB on this one.
Yuki
YT> The QE is fine for a once in a while touch up. It is not fine for
YT> larger manual updating, and until someone comes up with a *perfect*
YT> data source (I'm talking "I get a free year of data for every single
YT> error I can document" kind of perfect), that is what I intend to
YT> continue to do -- manually update. It's my money, and I don't trust
YT> anyone but me to do the really important data. It takes me a little
YT> longer to do it, but I know it's done, and done accurately.
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