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"This would
> also allow us to dispense with the need to have workaspace open just for
> navigation."
Without workspace, how could then AB know which list/category is "CURRENTLY SELECTED"?
(Hint: any symbol can belong to upto 69 categories at once
(64 watch lists, + 1group, +1 market, 1+industry/sector, favourite and index) )
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R" <jr-ta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] focus pocus; running a feature request up the user base flag pole
> In a similar vein there is a frustsrating focus issue when trying to quickly
> scan thru symbol charts via workspace. To move to the next/prev symbol in
> selected list requires re-focus back from chart to workspace and then press
> down/up arrow key.
>
> The Alt+R.arrow/Alt+L.arrow hot keys only navigate thru the entire symbol
> population which seems of little use to me. IMO it would be far better if
> these hot keys moved chart display to next/prev symbol within currently
> selected list (set via def pref, workspace highlight or other). This would
> also allow us to dispense with the need to have workaspace open just for
> navigation.
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yuki Taga" <yukitaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:53 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] focus pocus; running a feature request up the user base
> flag pole
>
>
>> I'm not sure this will interest EOD traders that much, but maybe
>> intraday folks might like it. Then again, maybe not. ^_^
>>
>> One thing I would really like to have, is the ability of AB to stay
>> focused on the ticker (the small window you may or may not elect to
>> have in your tool bar set) when focus is switched from AB to an
>> outside app, and then back. Right now, if you are focused on the
>> ticker window, leave AB for another app (say, to Google), when you
>> get back to AB the focus is no longer where it was.
>>
>> Yes, I know a simple F4 would put it back there. But it's one more
>> keystroke, and it's every single time I take the focus off AB.
>>
>> When I'm focused on the ticker window, I can rapidly input a number
>> of different symbols, quickly getting a look at each in a particular
>> layout/screen.
>>
>> Moreover, I suspect most people shift the focus away from AB numerous
>> times during a trading session. I know I do, for news, other
>> research, whatever. But when I put the focus back on AB, it is no
>> longer in the ticker window without adding that F4 keystroke.
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone would favor some kind of setting that might
>> allow a user to dictate that the focus remain where it was when
>> shifting the focus away from AB and then back. (This is not
>> *closing* AB, which would be a whole other thing, just when the app
>> focus changes.) I don't know how many would like this, or even if it
>> is technically possible. But I would like either the focus to stay
>> put, or the ability to set focus to a particular location, when
>> switching from AB to outside app and back.
>>
>> The workspace is another alternative, of course, but, the symbols
>> cannot be arranged in any order of user preference, so one ends up
>> scrolling; and the workspace takes up horizontal space I don't want
>> to give up anyway.
>>
>> But this isn't about the workspace. It's about whether many would
>> like to be able to set focus on a specific AB location between main
>> app focus changes, or at least having AB maintain focus where it was
>> when you left -- and of course the technical possibility or
>> impossibility of adding that functionality to the program.
>>
>> Yuki
>>
>>
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>>
>> Please note that this group is for discussion between users only.
>>
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