I was hoping for this good news, but what I have found is only
half-the-loaf.
Indeed, if you place the files in the database WatchLists directory
(with AB closed), you can then open AB and you will see those file
names as watch list in the the 'Watch lists' area under the 'Symbols' tab.
There is a big plus to this, as you avoid having to type in the watch
list names.
HOWEVER, even though your files may be full of thousands of symbols,
you will not see them, either under the individual watch lists, or
under 'All'.
The list names came in, but not the symbols, you see?
The only symbols that are seen are those that were already present in
the database.
You can then go through and import into each named watch list the file
of the same name, and that act captures the symbols.
Thus, you avoid typing in the watch list names, but you still have to
import them one-by-one to get the symbols.
Are you indicating that I should be acquiring the symbols somehow as
well, without having to import each list individually?
This would be highly desirable.
As it seems, there's just no bulk symbol import anywhere in AB, and
that's a stumbling block.
Likewise, even if this tremendous amount of manual setup were done
once, there would be no way to move it to another database, or to a
partner's installation.
Please forgive me for saying so, but this is exactly the sort of
time-wasting drudge work that we fairly expect the computer to do. <g>
If I've mis-spoken, or if I'm missing something, I welcome correction.
Thanks!
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
"Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>
> The answer is "Yes" - it is possible. You can do what you wanted
to do
> (i.e. writing files inside "WatchLists" subdirectory) and it
will
work OK,
> provided that AmiBroker does not have this particular database open
> at that time. So FIRST write files and THEN run AmiBroker/open
>database.