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Thank you, Lawrence. It's nice to have an experienced developer's insight.
Hopefully a few other people will comment also.
I like TC2000, I've been using it since '94 and still do.
David
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>The part on TC2000 is totally wrong.
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>The fault is not with TC2000 at all.
>Their Developer Kit is both easy to integrate and
>very fast in data access.
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>The problem is with less than experienced activex
>programmers maintaining TS2k.
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>ActiveX by MS design is very complex to code in
>non-VB based programming languages like C++, Delphi,
>etc. because data passing requires the use of
>variant array of variant data. That implies 90%
>beginner C++ programmers will not be able to code
>the access correctly :)
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>And if multitasking (like TS) is in use, activeX
>would kill almost all the remaining 10% because
>of complex MS COM architecture in multitasking.
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>It is not THAT hard but requires the programmers
>to properly learn the architecture and details.
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>We've built access to many COM-based API like
>quote.com, tc2000, csi unfair advantage, etc. with
>no problem and TC2000 is particularly great because
>it allows ultra fast scanning of clean EOD data
>with very very long history.
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>-Lawrence
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>--- mking@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I'm not really versed on this, but my opinion is
>> the problem lies more with
>> Worden than with TS. From what I have heard,
>> Worden may only allow access
>> to their data through their developer kit which is
>> in visual basic. I've
>> used this access to do a few things and for me it is
>> satisfactory. But for
>> someone like TS to be required to do this, if it's
>> true, well I don't
>> really blame TS for not doing it, but they
>> shouldn't mislead people about it.
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>Lawrence Chan http://www.tickquest.com
>Home of trading tools NeoBreadth and NeoTicker series
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