I totally agree. I’d
like to set column widths in code and to left-justify text. In
addition…
I’d like to see multi-column sort in
Explorations and Scans similar to MS Outlook. This would be a
very powerful feature for ranking and distilling results!
Outlook sorting is clean, simple, and easy
to use. In Outlook, you sort the first column, press and hold
<shift> while clicking the second column. If you keep <shift>
pressed, you can keep clicking columns to sort them in that order.
For example, in message list in Outlook, click
on the “From” column to sort by “From”. Then, press
and hold the <shift> key, and click on the “Received”
column. Messages are first sorted by “From” (the sender) and then
by “Received” (date received).
Multi-column sorting would a GREAT enhancement
to AB Scans and Explorations.
Regards,
Dan.
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dingo
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:17
AM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Width of
AddColumns
I agree totally (except the part about
reading in 2 directions). Using the number of characters won't work if
the list is using a font that is proportional but TJ knows how this can be
done. I can't count the number of times I've had to adjust the $%#*
column widths.
d
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yuki Taga
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 3:51
AM
To: mrdavis9
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Width of
AddColumns
Friday, August 5, 2005, 3:58:10 PM, you wrote:
m> When I maximize the Exploration, I want all
of the columns to be
visible
It's long been one of my pet peeves in AB.
Why we cannot set,
precisely and via code, the width of the columns,
I don't know (sorry
for the Yoda syntax). Setting an
appropriately wide (or narrow)
column header helps. But it is not the answer, and
cannot even be
done with the default columns. I have intraday
data now, and
Date/Time comes up way too narrow to show the time
stamp, which I
consider important. In fact, I cannot even see the
year, getting this
kind of output: Date/... (as a column header) then
8/5/200... (as
output). This is a small thing that is a big
thing, to me. It's way
short of the complete data I want to see.
TJ, can we get some improvement in this aspect of
the interface
sometime soon? The output to a column
consists of characters, be
they part of an array or part of a string.
Yes? Can we not have an
option to control the width in number of
characters of any column we
add? If there is a reason that this is impossible,
I'm sure willing
to accept that. But it is a real peeve, as I
say. And yes, I know
the little tricks like "Scan" (with no
buy or sell arguments), and
then run the exploration, which resets the column
widths. But it is
not enough, and a pain besides. Certainly we
should be able to
control this unless there is some built-in reason
we cannot. Yes?
Also, AddTextColumn [to use fullname() in the
output] justifies
right. Excellent for math, sometimes; horrible for
text, IMO, unless
you are reading in Japanese. But even that
would be top to bottom,
then right to left.
^_^
Best,
Yuki
Try to figure out us Japanese. Our
newspapers are printed top to
bottom and right to left (the front page would be
a European back
page). But our ONLINE newspapers are displayed
left to right and top
to bottom, as if the text was European.
Maybe it's better for the
brain, learning to read in different directions.
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