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Dave
You are correct - there is no way to traverse symbol tree/watchlists etc.
quickly using keys once focus is lost to chart. It has been suggested
several times before - hopefully TJ has it on the to do list.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave's Laptop" <dlittner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 4:30 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Ticker Toolbar Question
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I will respond to the ticker toolbar and allow others to address your
other
> questions.
>
> You are correct in that once you click anywhere else other than in the
> watchlist you will have to click on the next stock you would like to view.
> If there is nothing of interest on that new stock then you can arrow down
to
> the next. But once you have removed focus from the watchlist you have to
> click back in the watchlist.
>
> I would hope that TJ could enable the arrow keys to allow us to cycle
> through the current watchlist without having to take these extra steps.
> Another feature that would go along with this is to start back at the top
of
> the current watchlist once you have reached the bottom of the current
> watchlist.
>
> Maybe we are both missing something here. If so, would someone please
> correct us?
>
> You should check out this video of beta version 4.74
> http://www.amibroker.com/video/dragdrop1.html
>
> Good luck,
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of wlandry01
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:04 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Ticker Toolbar Question
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the input. I'm using Version 4.70.5, by the way.
>
> I'm not sure that I understand how moving the ticker toolbar over to
> the left by the Watchlist changes the situation. It may be that I
> don't know exactly what you mean by "pin the symbol list open". Are
> you associating the ticker toolbar to a Watchlist somehow? If so,
> that would be what I am trying to accomplish, but I would like to be
> able to move the toolbar to the right (see below).
>
> What it boils down to is I'm trying to save a lot of back and forth
> keystrokes and clicks. Perhaps more explanation would help. I like
> to work with 20 to 30 stocks at a time, paging down through them as I
> mark items of interest. To do that I put the stocks of interest in a
> Watchlist and then click on the first one, using the Watchlist. At
> that point I can use the "Up" and "Down" arrow keys to page through my
> entire list.
>
> Once I click on a chart, however, the current focus moves away from
> the Watchlist and I have to go back to it to change to the next stock.
> I can't just page down to the next stock. It seems that the "Up" and
> "Down" key should work that way regardless of the focus but they don't
> (or, if they do, I haven't figured it out yet). My thinking,
> therefore, was that I could move the ticker toolbar to the right of
> the screen (I'm righthanded) and use it for moving between stocks, but
> I would have to be able to associate it with the specific Watchlist of
> interest.
>
> There is a related issue here. I haven't found a way to have drawings
> (e.g., lines) associate automatically with the current time view. For
> example, I work between Daily and Weekly and I usually want the
> symbols specific to the active layer. It seems that the drawings
> would default to the current layer, but they don't appear to work that
> way. I haven't been able to find a setting that would let me specify
> that as a default.
>
> I use, therefore, the "Layer" tab on the "Workspace" to associate the
> symbols to the correct layer. I know that I can right click on the
> drawing object to assign a layer, but that involves more steps. In
> any case, all this makes for a lot clicking and switching. As a
> result, I'm spending a lot of time going back and forth to the
> Workspace and switching back and forth between the "Symbols" tab and
> the "Layer" tab.
>
> It's probably the fact that I'm new at this and haven't figured out
> the most efficient way of working! In any case, if I could figure out
> how to make those two changes I could save a lot of time and effort.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave's Laptop" <dlittner@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > The ticker toolbar indeed does show all of the stocks in your current
> > database (sorted alphabetically).
> >
> > What version of the software are you running? I have version 4.74
> and I pin
> > the symbol list window open on the left with my watchlist folder in
> view.
> > This enables me to use the down arrow button to step through each
> symbol in
> > my current watchlist. I can also just click on any particular symbol
> if I
> > want to jump or skip to it.
> >
> > Is this what you what you are trying to accomplish?
> >
> > Dave
> > MarketMonk777 (also Yahoo IM ID)
> > a.k.a. RedEyes
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf
> > Of wlandry01
> > Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 5:11 PM
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Ticker Toolbar Question
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know if the ticker toolbar (shows at the top of the
> > AmiBroker screen) can be set to show only those symbols associated
> > with the current Watchlist, etc. It appears to be linked to whichever
> > database is in use, which, in my case, is the total US-Stocks
> > database. This isn't, generally, particularly useful to me since
> > I'm usually working on a specific subset of stocks at any given time.
> >
> > I've checked the Help, etc. but haven't found anything yet. As far as
> > I can determine there isn't a setting in the Preferences, etc. that
> > would allow this change, either.
> >
> > Can anyone advise as to whether resetting the toolbar context is
> possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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