Conrad, why are you so obsessed with the minutiae of AB's calls to different chart panes...??
How is that going to help you...? I get the feeling you are looking at AFL like an event driven language... --- In [email protected], "Conrad Joach" <consolejo...@...> wrote: > > Maybe I'm the only person in the world having a hard time getting grips on > how AmiBroker actually works. I'm about to give up because I just can't get a > strong understanding of these basic things. And yes I've submitted this to > support but it's the weekend and I'm wasting hours on this. > > Do the following and tell me what you see. > > 1) Create a new blank chart with minutely interval. Add a Price series on it. > Make sure that your chart refreshes are set to once per second (1) in the > Intraday tab in Preferences. > > 2) Using the following AFL script, create a 2nd chart pane and add the AFL > below. > > Script: _TRACE(NumToStr(NOW(4))); > > 3) Now click inside the pane that has the AFL from below. Notice that every > time its invoked, its invoked twice? Look at the seconds part of the time, > there are two printouts per second in the trace window, and one value is for > the top pane, and the other value is for the bottom pane. > > 4) Now click in the top pane (not where the AFL is applied to), you'll see it > goes back to printing just once per second. > > Why is this happening? If I create a 2nd pane in a chart window, and add AFL > to it, why on earth would it be called twice when I click *inside* the pane > and once when I click outside the pane? > > Am I wrong or shouldn't it only be called once per chart update interval, not > twice? And to make matters worse, when it is called for the top chart pane > (not the one we applied it to) it will receive a very different view of the > state of AmiBroker. Things like number of visible bars may be different than > the bottom pane. >
