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"Thnx, Alan. I misunderstood & checked the OFF button, thinking that was
causing the problem. Eventually, I got it right & things seem to have
settled down. Additional thnx to all who wrote me!
Michael"
Alan Courchene wrote:
>Hello Michael,
>
>If you are using dynastore for q.com then read on. Go
>into prefs and make sure you have checked ITV (ignore
>trade volume for CME futures and i think CBOT futures.
>This may cure the problem. I had similar problems when
>I was using DS for a TS datafeed. Checking ITV fixed
>90% of the flickering problems. I seem to recall it
>was still a problem on some stocks. Perhaps it is a DS
>volume problem and not a TS problem. The ITV problem
>if i recall correctly was more a problem with the way
>the quotes for vol for CME are delivered not a DS
>issue. If you subscribe to
>dynastore-qc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx you can search the posts
>for 1999-2000 for flicker and find most of the
>answers.
>
>Alan C.
>
>--- mguess <mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>From: LaciG <lacig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Window Flickering Problem
>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:45:01 -0500
>
>I am displaying a 25 tick chart of ZN H2. Every tick the screen flickers
>and seems to redraw. (I have no indicators displayed, just price). It
>scrols to most recent bar even though I am scrolled back a few days. I
>seem to remember that there is a fix somewhere. Could someone refresh my
>memory.
>TIA
>
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