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Hi again Ton,
Thanks very much for the reply. It is very helpful. Even your write up on
TweakAll for Win95/98/98SE has caught my attention.
I would also like to hear from other users who are using scripting programs
in Metastock. Which program are you using and how exactly do you go about
using it. I.e. do you perform a standard exploration first rooting out
prospective shares or do you get the scripting program to go strait into
system tests of your favorite stocks? May be both?
Where I find Metastock at a bit of a disadvantage, is once I have found a
particular system that looks good, there is no automatic chart scanner that
will go and look at each share and search for buy and sell signals after
each daily download based on past System tests. Has anyone found a way
around this. I also have Supercharts which I purchased in 96 which has an
excellent Chart Scanner, however, once I have found a good system in
Metastock I can never quite get the same system into SC. I would appreciate
hearing everyone else's thoughts and solutions (On the Metastock program
that is).
My experience with Metastock and their support has been very positive
though. It really is good for finding those prospective shares and their
support has helped tremendous. Also this Forum is very informative. Thanks
to everyone that contributes.
If the above has been asked and answered in the past before I joined, I
apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks to you all
Regards
Glynn
Glynn & Lindsay Chamberlain.
glynsay@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cape Town
South Africa
-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Maas <anthmaas@xxxxxx>
To: Glynn Chamberlain <glynsay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Metastock-List <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 21 May 1999 02:40
Subject: Re: Scripting programs
>See answers below your questions.
>
>Regards,
>Ton Maas
>ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Glynn Chamberlain
>To: A.J. Maas
>Sent: maandag 17 mei 1999 18:47
>Subject: Scripting programs
>
>
>> Dear Ton
>>
>> I joined the Metastock Forum about 2 months ago and was fortunate to see
most
>> of your informative posts referring to Scripting programs.
>
>Thanks for this compliment, but it is Equis that gives its users the
opportunity through
>their MetaStock-list for their worlwide users of their programs, to get
more advanced
>in MetaStock, and in "MetaStock plus the PC"-combined programs.
>Myselve, and many many others, only provide the technical means (with
pleasure).
>
>> I however am still in a quandary as to which program to chose. Could you
please
>> give me a recommendation as to which (in your opinion) is the better
program.
>
>Depends on your preferences (eg see your DOS-section below).
>The following list shows the programs (usable in the Windows 9.x
User-environment),
>in a qualify-ing ranking manner (eg 1=simpler , 5=tougher):
>1. DOS batch, 2. ScriptIt and 3. AutoIt (eg 2+3 are equal), 4. WSH's
VBScript, 5.VBA
>(where #1,2,4+5 are all Microsoft products and all the # given are
available for free).
>
>> I know my way around Windows 95 & 98, however my programming skills are
>> a bit short, if non existent. Although I did write some Dos batch
programs, they
>> were incredibly simple, even though I "understood?" Dos fairly well.
>
>Best is to start with ScriptIt and when finished writing a few scripts, to
then compare
>notes(the scripts) with AutoIt, as both programs are somewhat equal,
differences
>are in the details only.
>Also ScriptIt is the DOS batch's successor and also most of the DOS batch
stuff is
>implemented in it, and also full in VBScript.
>
>> I would like a Scripting program much like those in MS Word, where you
start
>> a "Recorder", do the necessary mouse clicks and actions and the actions
are
>> saved to be used over and over again. Is there such a scripting program
that
>> will watch what keystrokes I do so that I can automate it next time. I
think these
>> were called Makro's?
>
>Makro is a retail company overhere, but you are right here, there are quite
a few
>macro programs around. At first, I have also been macroing my way around
>Windows. However, the macro utility that is build-in in Word, works for and
within
>the Word-program only.
>A macro utility (as an Add-In) is also available in Excel.
>VBA is also available in Excel.
>What these type of macro utilities and VBA have in common is that both will
only
>operate from and within that single main program only (Word or Excel or
others).
>Within these programs, the display of windows is always a repetative task,
>whereas running a macro program in the Windows 9.x OS is not of a
repetative
>nature. In Word, the Word-program controlls the display settings for each
window.
>These settings are in an OS-environment like Windows 9.x always later
over-ruled
>by the Registry settings for Folders (eg in Win-Explorer click "View|Folder
>Options|View|Folder views"). And this is also the main bottleneck when
choosing
>for a macro-recording program. The display of windows or folder's windows
is
>never certain to be always the same window-position on screen and all of
the
>times, eg be it due to that certain program's way of working under the
Windows 9.x
>OS or from the OS itselves or from your own settings (see above).
>Any "mouse moves" or "sending keystrokes"-actions that are live recordered,
will
>then also not be able to follow up on these new window's display-positions
on screen.
>Best way would be to have a program that can also write down (eg convert)
your
>recordings into a written source code, so that you can manipulate it to
suite any
>un-expected new window's display positions.
>But to save you a lot of hastles (and any consequencive data loss following
from
>these miss-actions), apart from the DOS batch, any of the other programs
that
>are mentioned above are capable to catch the windows, normal displayed or
>mis-placed displayed, with "mouse moves" or "sending keystrokes" as the
source
>code also being available (but not from recording it first). You will have
to use
>your imagination here, as to the appropiate actions that need to be in the
source
>code.
>
>> I have been reading your write up on WSH, Scriptit and others, and
although
>> they all sound excellent, I do not know which one to go for. Please could
you
>> recommend a suitable program that is Idiot proof and simple for me yet
once
>> I learn how it works will be incredibly powerful. So far I will only be
using it to
>> automate some system tests etc in Metastock. However, if these programs
>> work the way I have read, I could be doing a lot more later. I doubt very
much
>> that I will be using dos based programs, so any program you recommend
>> only needs to be for Win 9.x and NT systems.
>
>Like mentioned above, start with ScriptIt (or AutoIt). Though WSH, as the
host
>for so many scripting languages doesn't directly support this, indirectly
it will
>always do so when calling on the host itself (eg calling the WSH either in
the
>form of (host) Wscript.exe or (host) Cscript.exe) by registering the
>script file ('s extension) with the particular host.
>And then you can also easy switch between ScriptIt(or AutoIt) and any of
the
>other (scripting) languages standard supported in WSH (eg VBScript,
Jscript,
>Perl etc.). Not required but it is always available to you. And where WSH
can be
>seen as the (WSH) shell-environment, with own source code for the
run-environment
>as base, put in a seperate wsh-file.
>
>Another thing about ScriptIt (or AutoIt) is that it is so realy easy to
use. Much easier
>then the MetaStock formula language for example, which is a solid language
too, and
>that gets many of its stuff from VB/VBA. The only requirement is that you
MUST read
>the White Paper document first, as it is as well, at the same time the only
>Help-file available for the program. More support :
>- In one of the microsoft's news-groups
> ( news.microsoft.com microsoft.public.scripting.vbs )
> sometimes questions related to ScriptIt will get answered by many odd
pro's
> from around the world.
>- Naturaly, you can also ask on the MetaStock-List.
> (This asking will help others, eg first starters, in using the program as
well).
>- Another suggestion to other List-members is to send their (Metastock)
scripts
> to the List, and also I could add a special section on my homepage for
these
> scripts, so that they are always (24 hours) available (to others and
newcomers).
>
>Also remember that the programs mentioned are all available for FREE ,
>exception ofcourse is the VBA, as this naturaly comes with the particular
>programs that are including the VBA - (for Equis/MetaStock an idea????).
>
>> I thank you for your assistance and hope to hear from you soon.
>
>> Many regards
>>
>> Glynn
>>
>> Glynn & Lindsay Chamberlain.
>> Cape Town
>> South Africa
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