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Hello William,
Then we shall name this fix the Fritz Flicker Factor Fix.
Best regards,
Jim Johnson
Wednesday, March 07, 2001, 10:43:11 AM, you wrote:
WW> Thanks to Gary Fritz I have finally cured the massively annoying
WW> flickering/jumping charts that occur when indicators are set to Update Every
WW> Tick. Several people asked me to post if I came across a solution. Gary
WW> said in essence that Ts redraws the screen when it rescales the price of the
WW> instrument or indicator. I then noted that jumping charts did occur when
WW> one of my indicators was nearing the outer range of the current scale which
WW> I always set to Screen. The jumping usually goes away if I reset the scale
WW> to Entire Data Series but this does not work if the indicator is currently
WW> making a new high/low since every tick forces the scale to expand and thus
WW> the screen redraws and jumps. Plus setting the scale to Entire Data Series
WW> is not very satisfactory because the scale is usually compressed and the
WW> indicator gets pretty flat. The best solution is to set the scale manually
WW> in User Defined and choose a number well above and below the current or
WW> expected range of the indicator. This totally stops the screen flicker.
WW> Obvioulsy this is a bug in Ts2k's (and maybe Ts4 I dont really remember)
WW> automatic scale-to-screen code. All Ts2k has to do is expand the scale a
WW> reasonable amount when the indicator value gets within say 5% of the current
WW> limit and no flicker would ever occur.
WW> The tech support people at Omega always tell me to disable hardware
WW> acceleration when I complain about this problem. That has no effect and
WW> obviously has nothing to do with the problem. I have written to the head of
WW> Tech Support many times reporting the incorrect and completely
WW> non-responsive advice given out by that dept but it falls on deaf ears.
WW> Fortunately we have good people on this list like Gary to help us out.
WW> Bill Wood
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