Hi Conrad, I don't know the answer but I have been following along and I can hazard a guess:
- when a plugin is actioned it auto enables timed refresh (otherwise the charts would not refresh while we are away from the desk? http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?id=320 - refreshes would continue, tick or no tick, until the plug is pulled on the plugin? - going to daily bar view makes no difference because the underlying database is RT and it continues to refresh as per the timer? (in RT the daily bar is a compression of RT bars and not an EOD 'snapshot' of the OHLC for the day. If I am correct I suppose there is an argument for users being able to toggle on/off an auto adjustment for refresh time when changing to a higher timeframe...... there is no need for high frequency refresh if you are only interested in a timeframe > than the basetime. In that case though you wouldn't see the bar build you would just see the latest finished bar appear. I dare say the topguns probably code up their own solutions. If you set the timed refresh to a ridiculously high number I guess timed refresh would halt and you would only get a refresh on 'user action'. from the timed refresh reference: Hint: to detect whenever given refresh comes from timer or user action you can use Status("redrawaction") function. It returns 0 for regular refresh (user action) and 1 for timer-refresh Re 'data page' referred to by Tomasz I don't know what he was talking about either ... I think he means the QuoteEditor page. --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejo...@...> wrote: > > Another update, I hit the "Close" button on this little backfill window. It > warned me that I would lose the ability to get quotes until I loaded the > database again. I hit Yes, and it said it was shutting down the IQFeed > plugin. As soon as I did this, my TRACE window stopped updating. > > So we now know the culprit, the question is why on earth is the fact that the > IQFeed plugin is running causing my AFL to be invoked over and over again in > a chart?? > > --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejoker@> wrote: > > > > One other variable I'll mention is that there is a little window running > > saying "Backfilling AAPL, 4500 bars", and "0 running backfills". I don't > > know what this has to do with AFL and a chart. There's no way this window > > or whatever backfilling its doing (which it can't possibly be doing if the > > network is unplugged) should have any impact on how often an AFL gets > > invoked in a chart window. But I thought I'd mention it here to see if > > means anything. > > > > --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejoker@> wrote: > > > > > > I tried your test, I got results that showed time was changing, see below. > > > > > > Also, I disconnected my network connection, and guess what, the trace > > > kept on printing, line after line, with a new time stamp, never stopping. > > > I was on an AAPL chart before I disconnected. > > > > > > So the question is why is the chart refreshing multiple times per second > > > when the network is unplugged, which rules out ticks, and when there is > > > no interaction with the chart window?? > > > > > > test215723 Formulas\Drag-drop\DebugPlot 4.afl 4 20 > > > 21:57:23.89 > > > test215724 Formulas\Drag-drop\DebugPlot 4.afl 4 20 > > > 21:57:24.89 > > > test215725 Formulas\Drag-drop\DebugPlot 4.afl 4 20 > > > 21:57:25.89 > > > test215726 Formulas\Drag-drop\DebugPlot 4.afl 4 20 > > > 21:57:26.89 > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "monitorit" <monitorit@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Just a few thoughts from a non-pro ABer > > > > 1. If you have entered more than 1 ticker since the time AB session > > > > started and are in realtime mode, AB will try to get those quotes as > > > > well as for the displayed ticker (running an AA session or have tickers > > > > in an open realtime quote window also counts I believe). The number of > > > > tickers AB will try to get I think depends on your data provider - 200 > > > > sounds to be plausable. > > > > 2. Could your data provider be sending ticks for the ticker many > > > > times/sec (ie 200 times in 20sec)? > > > > > > > > Consider changing your afl to > > > > > > > > _SECTION_BEGIN("YOURTITLE"); > > > > plot(C,"Close",colorblack > > > > _TRACE("test"+Now(4)); > > > > _SECTION_END(); > > > > > > > > save it > > > > check to see if all times are ~the same or show a continum (could the > > > > 200 traces just be the last 200 but they are continuing while the > > > > window is open)? > > > > consider disconnecting from your data provider > > > > consider quitting and restarting AB and checking the above. > > > > > > > > Would like to see the results of above > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejoker@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have posted in excruciating detail exactly what I'm doing. My code > > > > > is one line: > > > > > > > > > > _TRACE("test"); > > > > > > > > > > That's it. One line. On one chart. The chart is minutely, on a > > > > > database with 5000 minutes. EURUSD. > > > > > > > > > > It prints 200 times then stops. I have no refresh on the chart. > > > > > > > > > > If I clear the trace window, it prints it 200 times again, as if that > > > > > is somehow causing a chart refresh, which is very weird behavior. > > > > > > > > > > What else can I tell you. You can reproduce this yourself very easily > > > > > with my explanation. Let me know what other info you need. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > >>Re: [amibroker] Re: I'm having a very hard time doing something > > > > > >>that I think should be simple > > > > > > > > > > You have to take it one step at a time. If you set AB to log only 200 > > > > > lines than that is what you get, no more. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyway, I haven't seen your code yet, did you post it? Also include > > > > > the exact conditions you run it with. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Everybody is guessing what you are doing - you'll never learn > > > > > anything this way. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > herman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
