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Pierre,
"Most of what you are referring to is available in TradeStation5 (Active X
controls, DLL's, COM interfaces, Internet programming and the like.)"
I've seen TS5 and to the best of my knowledge which could be incomplete
regarding this beta, TS cannot create any of the above (which is what I was
referring to in the quote above). It can interface with 32 bit DLL's
created with VB and the TS5 is COM based but it can't create anything like
this. You can use TS5 COM objects in VB but you can't go the other way
unless you call a VB generated DLL. I wouldn't expect to either since
that;s not only proprietary but way outside of the scope of the language.
Whether or not they have specific commands which allow users to control COM
objects programatically within an EL source remains to be seen. I would be
skeptical of this however since VB5 has minimal COM support. However, being
that you can compile a DLL with VB5/6 and call it from TS5 EL (you should be
able to do this), means that you can essentially control COM objects from
EL. To the credit of Omega I like the Chromacoding feature in the new EL
editor. Also, there's no question Tradestation's support for VB and COM
will be a big bonus for power users.
However, I will miss a VB-like debugger which to date I haven't seen in the
new Powereditor.
Regards,
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Orphelin@xxxxxxx [mailto:Orphelin@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 3:51 PM
To: Omega-list
Subject: Re: Pierre's EL vs VB
Dans un courrier daté du 29/10/98 07:35:08 Heure d7iver Pari8 Madrid,
bnm03@xxxxxxx a écrit :
>
> Would-be EL programmers are way better off learning VB anyway. Not only
> will they be able to produce systems faster and more reliably in VB than
in
> EL but their knowledge of progamming will not be limited to just stupid
EL
> programming. They'll be positioned to start writing really cool things
like
> Active X controls, DLL's, COM interfaces, Internet programming and the
like.
> They wil be able to take their knowledge of BASIC and write full blown
> windows applications. The investment learning to write systems in VB
will
> pay off a hundred fold more times than learning an isolated, specific and
> questionable language like EL by a company like Omega.
>
> B.
Most of what you are referring to is available in TradeStation5 (Active X
controls, DLL's, COM interfaces, Internet programming and the like.)
For the moment, the only trading software that you can use is TS4.
TS5 is not available, TradeLab no more, DayTrader Prto: same status.
Once all of this will be released, it will be time to speak of things that
really exist.
For the moment, it's not the case.
Only TS4 for most of us, and SC for Earl Adamy.
Rgds.
PO
An other one (same thread):
Dans un courrier daté du 29/10/98 14:10:43 Heure d2iver Pari43 Madrid,
eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> VB's watches, breakpoints, steps, and other debugging tools are put to
shame
> by EL's powerful debugging command: Print(...). What newbie programmer
would
> want to have all those distracting tools in order to see what the program
> does and get the bugs out.
>
> Earl
That's amazing to see that the fault is ALWAYS due to the language and never
to the end user.
NB: Unlike one may believe, VB is still unable to stiff egg whites.
-Pierre Orphelin
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