Hello Joseph... Thanks for an excellent explanation. Was wonder if you would take this to the next level and let us know your practice for naming and storing your templates? Do you use the \Layouts subfolder? I just looked and mine is in the Amibroker tree and I would think it is not specific to a database.
I also noticed that my default path for loading a template can be any path, and when I just tried it, the default path that was pulled was the last folder I used in my autoanalyzer run. Best regards Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Biran To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:24 AM Subject: RE: [amibroker] New Layouts/Templates Templates (and layouts) are not created, they can be saved with different names. (so save first what you have before changing!) Take any window change it to your liking (add/remove indicators and panes etc) then right click on it and select Template> Save... (give it a name) this saves all the panes (indicators) in that window with the relative size of each pane (but not symbol or timescale). (You can have multiple templates where the only difference is the relative size between panes, or having totally different indicators) In the latest AB 4.88 you can only create a new (non linked) window using File | New | Default chart. It will use the default Template as its layout (not the named template you saved unless you used Template | Save as default). On the other hand, to create a linked window you use Window | New linked (after selecting an existing window). Somewhat confusing but works. When you select any other (newly created or existing) window and you right click on it, select Template> Load... select the named template you just saved, it will apply that "layout" to the selected window it will not change the symbol in that window or its timescale. it will not modify any other windows unless you repeat the process for each window. Linked windows CAN use different templates. Layouts refers to the combination of ALL the windows in AB's workspace. I do not normally use them to save, I find templates more convenient for daily use. Named templates are saved in the database folder, so you can have different templates for different databases that have identical names. (alternatively if you use multiple databases and want to have same layouts you have to copy the \Layout subfolder from one database to another) Joseph Biran ____________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Dugas Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:22 PM To: Yahoo - AmiBroker Subject: [amibroker] New Layouts/Templates Hi all, Is there an easy way to create a new layout/template with its own charts? The only way I know to create a new one is to save an existing one under a different name, but then they share the same charts so future changes to the new one affect the old ones also. I have been getting around this by immediately replacing all charts in the new layout with a new "placeholder" price chart on each sheet so that none of the layouts share any common charts, but I have 60 sheets so it is getting to be quite a chore. Anyone have a better way? Thank you! Steve
