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Who's Maintaining TS2k ? Hasn't been a code change in over 18 months....not
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Chan [mailto:stnahc@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: TC2000 data and TS200i
>
>
>
> The part on TC2000 is totally wrong.
>
> The fault is not with TC2000 at all.
> Their Developer Kit is both easy to integrate and
> very fast in data access.
>
> The problem is with less than experienced activex
> programmers maintaining TS2k.
>
> 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 :)
>
> And if multitasking (like TS) is in use, activeX
> would kill almost all the remaining 10% because
> of complex MS COM architecture in multitasking.
>
> It is not THAT hard but requires the programmers
> to properly learn the architecture and details.
>
> 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.
>
> -Lawrence
>
>
> --- 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.
> <snip>
>
>
> =====
> Lawrence Chan http://www.tickquest.com
> Home of trading tools NeoBreadth and NeoTicker series
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