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Re: Chart Flicker/Jumping/Update Every Tick



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If you just use the volume in your system and don't need to see the volume
bars,
you could try plotting them under Subgraph / Hidden.

Neville

-----Original Message-----
From: William Wood <wrwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: fritz@xxxxxxxx <fritz@xxxxxxxx>; Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:18 AM
Subject: Chart Flicker/Jumping/Update Every Tick


>Speaking of wierd Ts2k problems I continue to have horrendous chart flicker
>with an indicator set to update every tick.  For example a simple daily
>stock chart with a volume indicator plotted as a histogram in a subgraph
>below the price bars.  During mkt hours the chart jumps like a kangaroo if
>it is a hot stock.  It goes away if you turn off update every tick.  Gary
>Fritz mentioned that the chart redraws if it is rescaling.  This is
>definitely the right area but the perfect solution still eludes me.  My
>volume indicator causes the chart to redraw every tick even though it is
not
>rescaling.  Vol starts near zero at the open and grows during the day.  The
>scale is only forced to expand if the current day's volume exceeds all
prior
>days.  The jumping occurs right from the open.  The jumping does go away if
>I set the scaling for the vol indicator to Entire Data Series instead of
>Screen.  This is OK but I like screen scaling much better since if there is
>a big vol spike back a ways the scale becomes too large and the normal size
>bars get very small and difficult to differentiate.  This is definitely a
TS
>bug of some sort since it has plagued me for many years.  Disabling
Hardware
>Acceleration has no effect whatsoever.  Somebody else mentioned increasing
>the weight of the bars.  I made them super fat with no effect on jumping.
>Anybody figures this out will be most appreciated.
>
>Bill Wood