Tomasz,
Thank you for providing all the new charting capabilities. I have
much praise and also some other feedback from my first hour of use and
adding the new AFL features to my program already.
• X-Y co-ordinate labels on axes implemented. Can be controlled using
View->X-Y labels menu.
This is great! I can now ditch the one I just finished writing --
LOL! Yours is much better. I like the shadow effect to make it stand
out better.
• Plot, PlotForeign and PlotOHLC now have new parameter zorder which
defines the Z-axis position of given plot
• All drawing tools now can define Z-order (from -5 to +5).
This is great, but it would be even better if it were -10 to +10
layers, though I could get by with 8. 5 are enough layers for groups
of plots, but not quite enough for my individual plots, so I still
have to break my plotting routines from my modular function generation
code. With 10 layers above and below, I could have enough layers to
make my functions truly modular.
I absolutely love that the default study lines are below the Gfx
plots. My studies no longer obscure my on-chart button arrays and
information tables.
• new AFL functions ColorBlend
This is great! A way to select colors by stepping through values in a
way that makes sense to the eye. I will have to think of a way to
include this in my charts.
• Rectangle and Ellipse drawing tool now are by default SOLID, with
default fill color being a blend between background and selected
drawing color, they are use ZOrder = -1 (behind regular plots) by
default
This is a great improvement! Though I must not understand what you
mean by blend between the background. I changed chart background
colors and it did not change the color of the oval I was testing...
Wait, I just figured it out. It uses the color of the background when
you create the object only and does not change it dynamically after
that.
• Blank area past last available quote can be now enlarged on the fly
by simply using > arrow in the scroll bar or using mouse wheel
This one is causing me some difficulties. I both love it and hate it.
I love that I can increase the space easily.
I hate that it has no limits and once increased, it becomes the new
default for the position thumb all the way to the right.
I hate that if the symbol is switched, it does not remember what it
was last set to, though that seems to be the only way to reset it back
to the default.
If I want to increase the space, it is usually to a constant PIXELs of
blank space so that I can fit objects that are pixel based to the
right of the chart in the blank area. So being able to increase the
blank area if I am zooming out to many bars is a good thing.
However, I very often use the scroll wheel to move back an forth in
the chart during real time trading. I move left to see some last
support level for setting a study point, then I give the scroll wheel
a quick zip to get back to the right default position again for
trading the current bar. With this new mode, I zip right past all the
bars to a blank chart and am lost in white space.
So this feature is causing me more problems than not having it at
all. I don't really need the ability to add unlimited white space.
What I need is one of the following:
1a A way to turn this feature off, or
1b A maximum amount of white space preference that the scroll wheel
can't exceed -- preferably with either bars or pixels options.
1a A way to turn this feature off, and
2b A preferences checkbox that allows pixels rather than bars of
default white space, or
2c An AFL function to set the amount of future bars that overrides the
default.
Thank you for being such a great developer that listens to your
customers!
Best regards,
Dennis
On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Tomasz Janeczko wrote:
Hello,
AmiBroker 5.21.0 BETA is released now:
http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/2009/02/13/amibroker-5210-beta-released/
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
