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Re: Alert question



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I have paintbars and alerts in 8.1 and they are very close.  Only thing I
have had happen is the cue gets backed up. At times I have had lots of
talking stuff, and if there is a lot of activity, everything gets played in
the order received, backup can be quite long.

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "john Davis" <buglywugly@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega-List"
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Alert question


> My guess has always been it is priority in the Tradestation program
> code.  It just happens after a lot of other stuff where paintbars
> bypass all the other stuff.  More resources help but no matter how big
> your computer it still falls way later.  A really busy market can make
> it take several times as long.
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> I have a trading system that I am working on based on alerts which writes
> text on the chart at the
> moment the signal is generated. I have also written a paintbar to go with
> the system.
> Can anyone tell me why the paintbar paints the bar instantly and the alert
> lags by 10 or 15 seconds
> sometime? I'ts the same code. the alerts are a lot easier to respond to
but
> are late.
> Is this a system resource problem ? or what?    John
>