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>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:02:44 -0700
>From: Daniel Martinez <DanM@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Myron B. [Bruce] Slomka" <mslomka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Equis Suggestion Box <suggestions@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>There is an irritating task I have to do every single time I perform a
"Find".
>MetaStock, as with most Windows programs, doesn't remember all settings from
>previous sessions. Whenever I must do a "Find" for a particular security
in my
>security folders, I must set the folder to my stocks database. There
should be
>a drop down menu for previous folders which I searched in. This should be
easy
>since it only involves adding entries into the Registry.
>
This item has been on my mind recently and I "second" the suggestion.
"Find" should at least open up to the last subdirectory I searched in --
not the root directory of, usually, the C: drive, which is not, I think
you'd agree, a sensible choice for Downloader/MS data file storage. It
seems to me very likely that most users would be searching the same
subdirectory each time, and having it changed back to some other location
every time it is closed and then reopened is an aggravating waste of time.
Likewise my last choice between "Name" and "Symbol" -- that should come
back unchanged also.
Other suggestions:
1. Provide some way for users to change the "Factory Defaults" and set
their own "defaults" for certain items -- for example, the "default"
choices for "Title" in "Chart Window Properties." The "Factory Defaults"
are Center -- Last Price and Right -- Last Date. Consider it this way: both
of those "values" are pretty easy to get a good idea of just by looking at
the chart. But "Symbol", for instance, is not -- and I'd like to be able to
designate that as my "default" center title.
2. Provide some way to modify the "factory" color choices. Many of the
"dark" colors don't look different enough from one another to be very
useful. Some of the brighter ones are, frankly, far too "neon" for my
taste, and strike me as no improvement over what we had in the days of CGA.
There's a definition table for these somewhere in the program, and it needs
to be made accessible.
I concur that the Downloader is, well, not an example for future
generations, shall we say.
Best regards,
Chuck Engstrom
Kennedyville, MD
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