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Hi Bob,
Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 1:20:19 PM, you wrote:
BJ> Hmmm. BJ> It comes back for me.
...but I've always been special.
Really? (Not a question about whether you are special, but only
whether the focus is retained.) ^_^
For me . . . never. Let's be sure we are doing the same thing.
I have a ticker symbol highlighted in the ticker window. Typing a
symbol followed by an 'Enter' immediately allows a symbol change. I
leave AB to switch to my e-mail client, or to a web page. I come
back to AB. The ticker symbol is no longer highlighted, and numerical
input (we use numbers for symbols) does not go to the ticker window
(indeed, no input goes to the ticker window before F4 is pressed).
Yuki
BJ> -----Original Message-----
BJ> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
BJ> Of Yuki Taga
BJ> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:54 PM
BJ> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BJ> Subject: [amibroker] focus pocus; running a feature request up the user base
BJ> flag pole
BJ> I'm not sure this will interest EOD traders that much, but maybe
BJ> intraday folks might like it. Then again, maybe not. ^_^
BJ> One thing I would really like to have, is the ability of AB to stay
BJ> focused on the ticker (the small window you may or may not elect to
BJ> have in your tool bar set) when focus is switched from AB to an
BJ> outside app, and then back. Right now, if you are focused on the
BJ> ticker window, leave AB for another app (say, to Google), when you
BJ> get back to AB the focus is no longer where it was.
BJ> Yes, I know a simple F4 would put it back there. But it's one more
BJ> keystroke, and it's every single time I take the focus off AB.
BJ> When I'm focused on the ticker window, I can rapidly input a number
BJ> of different symbols, quickly getting a look at each in a particular
BJ> layout/screen.
BJ> Moreover, I suspect most people shift the focus away from AB numerous
BJ> times during a trading session. I know I do, for news, other
BJ> research, whatever. But when I put the focus back on AB, it is no
BJ> longer in the ticker window without adding that F4 keystroke.
BJ> I'm wondering if anyone would favor some kind of setting that might
BJ> allow a user to dictate that the focus remain where it was when
BJ> shifting the focus away from AB and then back. (This is not
BJ> *closing* AB, which would be a whole other thing, just when the app
BJ> focus changes.) I don't know how many would like this, or even if it
BJ> is technically possible. But I would like either the focus to stay
BJ> put, or the ability to set focus to a particular location, when
BJ> switching from AB to outside app and back.
BJ> The workspace is another alternative, of course, but, the symbols
BJ> cannot be arranged in any order of user preference, so one ends up
BJ> scrolling; and the workspace takes up horizontal space I don't want
BJ> to give up anyway.
BJ> But this isn't about the workspace. It's about whether many would
BJ> like to be able to set focus on a specific AB location between main
BJ> app focus changes, or at least having AB maintain focus where it was
BJ> when you left -- and of course the technical possibility or
BJ> impossibility of adding that functionality to the program.
BJ> Yuki
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