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