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Using a SPY program I don't see any separate handles for the "sliders"...??
Just one for the container.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:29 AM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Big symbol text in the background
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Generally "scroll position" is available to any program via 
> low-level Windows API.
> It is NOT language dependent.
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787585(VS.85).aspx
> 
> To call such function you would need to write DLL (examples 
> are included in AmiBroker Development Kit
> freely available from the amibroker web site). AFL in such 
> area is even better than 
> "general purpose" VBScript / JScript because these two do NOT 
> allow that.
> 
> Note that it is generally bad idea to interfere with UI 
> controls that are intendend
> to be moved by end-user, not by the program.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dennis Brown" <see3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Big symbol text in the background
> 
> 
> > Tomasz,
> > 
> > I accept your challenge and take your word at face value.  Is it  
> > possible through AFL (by some OLE or other reasonable 
> means) to read  
> > the scroll position of the Parameters Window and set it 
> again later to  
> > the same position (after a Reset all button press)?
> > 
> > All I want to do is preserve the scroll position of the 
> window after a  
> > reset all. :-)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Dennis
> > 
> > On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> AFL although has array constructs, it works also
> >> as any other general purpose procedural language such as VB/ 
> >> VBScript, JScript, C.
> >>
> >> So the language is powerful enough to code everything user 
> cames up  
> >> with
> >> provided that the user wants to learn.
> >>
> >> History of this list shows dozens of examples where I have 
> shown how
> >> to write "impossible" things. So I repeat once again: 
> *nothing* is  
> >> impossible.
> >>
> >> With AFL and its tremendous extensibility (OLE/DLLs) you 
> can easily  
> >> control space shuttle if you want.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Tomasz Janeczko
> >> amibroker.com
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dennis Brown" <see3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:30 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Big symbol text in the background
> >>
> >>
> >>> Brian,
> >>>
> >>> Ok, I understand where you are coming from.
> >>>
> >>> The reason I ask the question is because I work from the 
> assumption
> >>> that AB/AFL is a worthy general programming language for taking  
> >>> series
> >>> data (of most types) and transforming it into files or 
> displays.  I
> >>> know my assumption is flawed, because Tomasz wrote AB with the  
> >>> express
> >>> purpose of quickly processing time series data in the 
> form of stock
> >>> information in specific ways and generating displays that were
> >>> relevant to the same.  Some of the implementation choices he made
> >>> limit the general purpose usability  of AB for tasks he did not  
> >>> expect
> >>> it to be used for.  Many of my suggestions for improvements are  
> >>> simply
> >>> requests to make AB/AFL more general purpose so that I can be more
> >>> creative with how I process stock and related 
> information, interact
> >>> with the user, and display the results.  If it were not 
> for the fact
> >>> that Tomasz listens to his users, and responds with 
> improvements, I
> >>> would have abandoned AB a year ago for some other more 
> general tool.
> >>>
> >>> In the case of the statement you made, I do not know if it is  
> >>> possible
> >>> to do it all in AB.  I assume it is.  I ask because I 
> thought you had
> >>> tried, but found some roadblock to success.
> >>>
> >>> On the Mac topic.  I expect you will have a great time 
> exploring the
> >>> alternate universe I live in, regardless of what you ultimately  
> >>> decide
> >>> to do for you next machine.
> >>>
> >>> Have a great time at the beach.  It is just getting towards Summer
> >>> weather here and the fruit trees are all in bloom.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Dennis
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:34 PM, brian_z111 wrote:
> >>>> Dennis,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm off to the beach for a few days to catch 'the last wave of
> >>>> summer'.
> >>>>
> >>>> A quick answer:
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't worry about it on my behalf.
> >>>>
> >>>> I assume that the intellectual/programming price to do 
> it inside AB
> >>>> is too high for me (I take it you are suggesting it can be done).
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a policy (based on my age, temperament and 
> efficiency) to  
> >>>> only
> >>>> do the programming that I have to.
> >>>> I prefer to outsource my 'non-essential' programming to 
> people who
> >>>> are brilliant at it and focus on what I do best.
> >>>>
> >>>> My preferred option is to just get the trade series, plus key
> >>>> evaluation inputs, from AB and do analysis/evaluation/MM 
> elsewhere.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am heading towards beefing up my Excel skills OR buying a stats
> >>>> package and/or adding custom evaluation/management 
> (either outside  
> >>>> of
> >>>> AB or eventually with an AB plugin - I'm likely to pay a 
> programmer,
> >>>> or do a joint venture, to get the plugins I want).
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW - you have got me interesed in Mac.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll check them out further later - I'm due for a new 
> desktop so I
> >>>> might expand my computer world (I keep my second oldest computer
> >>>> until the next cycle anyway so I will still have a MS Windows
> >>>> desktop).
> >>>>
> >>>> I thought the computer earth was flat and ended at 
> Microsofts back
> >>>> fence!
> >>>>
> >>>> Now that you have told me otherwise..............
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> brian_z
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis Brown <see3d@xxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why can't you?  What is the function that is missing to do that?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ~Dennis
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:51 PM, brian_z111 wrote:
> >>>>>> I would jump up and down on my pogo stick for a week if I could
> >>>>>> return a custom metric as a data series, get a stdev, 
> bin it (do a
> >>>>>> frequency dist) and view the dist in a chart with the push of a
> >>>>>> button.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Heaven, I'm in heaven! (Lisa Minelli?)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> brian_z
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Duke Jones, CMT" 
> <Duke@> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Tomasz,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Neat trick with the GFX exmple in the KB. Now if we could only
> >>>> get
> >>>>>> you
> >>>>>>> to show us how to do a bell curve distribution plot! :-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://www.amibroker.com/kb/?p=72
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Duke Jones, CMT
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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