Sidartha, Dennis -
I think that you might be dancing around a fairly simple issue. Allow
me one quick comment, then I'll suggest a workaround.
I agree that Notepad++ can be a useful tool for SOME Amibroker work -
certainly for those with programming backgrounds. BUT, You will run
into several things in any outboard editor (Notepad++, UltraEdit,
etc.) that you will have to work around or accept, though. Integrated
editors like the AFL editor, have knowledge of system state, commands,
syntax, etc.
It is one of those "things" that I think that you are debating in this
thread. When The AFL editor does a save, Amibroker knows to do a
Refresh of the screen and reflect the changes.
Several actions in Amibroker do a refresh - a new incoming bar, a
click on the screen, etc. An outboard editor is going to have to do
it manually - if you feel that it is worth the trouble. The AB
Refresh All automation call is way too costly to use, and Tomasz has
detailed his reasons for not providing a Refresh automation call.
So, if you want to work around it, you might do something that is
sometimes done in Windows when there are not other options. Send it a
key - in this case {F5} - refresh key. Lots of ways to do this -
AutoIt, JScript, VBScript, etc. In NotePad++, you would tie the
script to an external run command with a shortcut key. Probably that
alone is not worth the effort, but you might do script for Scan,
Backtest, etc.
But then you might want toolbar buttons to go with it - which NP++
doesn't have yet.
--- In [email protected], "sidhartha70" <sidharth...@...> wrote:
>
> No... insert linked is an AB thing. Rather than a drag & drop copy, it
> uses the original... and any changes made are saved to the original.
>
> Weird that we are seeing different behaviour Dennis. I'll try again.
>
> --- In [email protected], Dennis Brown <see3d@> wrote:
> >
> > What are "insert linked" files? Is that an NP++ thing?
> >
> > I can edit my main AFL and any of the #include files and they get
> > executed.
> >
> > BR,
> > Dennis
> >
> > On Feb 25, 2009, at 6:31 PM, sidhartha70 wrote:
> >
> > > I'm editing an 'insert linked' file and when I save it, it doesn't
> > > force execution... which as I say, makes editing 'on the fly'
> > > difficult using NotePad++....
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], Aron <aron.groups@> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Dennis Brown wrote:
> > >>> ....just save the file you are editing while it is running in a
> > > chart, and AB
> > >>> will start running with the changes right away. That is how I do
> > > all
> > >>> my AFL edits now with NP++ ....
> > >> Only if you are editing includes.
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
