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Mark ,
Thanks for the message
I program to 7.2 via COM now. I can write C++ and I also interoperate with
TS and c#/.net via my own mechanisms.
TS is however still not a real API- you can only use script to invoke the
COM code. There is no access to the BULK of the API- you cannot fetch data-
create windows, automate much of anything- except by using global memory and
other things like that to 'share' data. There is no access to a library
style API with most of TS. No matter how you cut it- TS API is NOT much
exposure into TS. There is NO way to have true source control. There is a
WEAK debugger (I am used to Visual Studio style debigging (or borland's,
etc).
It is not a programmers programming environment. It is a script environment
with some add-ons that allow you minimal access to small portions of the
entire hidden TS API's.
You can do lots with TS- but I am sure that you are all aware of the
limitations.
-Chris
From: "Mark Simms" <mar.ko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <mar.ko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "chris donnan" <chrisdonnan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Quant Studio
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:48:02 -0500
Chris - someone told me that TS 7.2 has a good break-point debugger
now.....
and they have really cleaned-up the DLL API and made it totally COM-based.
Which version were you making a reference to ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris donnan [mailto:chrisdonnan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:24 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:Quant Studio
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> No offense Max- but spoken like someone who has never had to
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> something non-trivial. Having a robust debug process and tools cannot be
> ignored. When you are dealing with a non-trivail applicaiton - with out
> logging and debugging (yes- with step-throughs) is NECESSARY. I again
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> software developer for some time in large enterprise environments
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> TradeStation simply is not a robust development tool- that is a
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> not debatable that TS is NOT a real development environment. You have no
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> debugger is POOR. There is really no advanced IDE like feature in
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> >From: Max Pierson <maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx>
> >To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re:Quant Studio
> >Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:05:40 -0800 (PST)
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> >It never fails to amaze me that people would want
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> >visual debugging tool of all debugging tools, the
> >chart!! Write your code as an indicator and step
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> >Use the Data Window!! Much, much better than
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> >....couldn't disagree more. When I have program
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