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Re: [amibroker] watchlist segregation by database



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Hi Tomasz,

Thursday, December 9, 2004, 7:05:10 PM, you wrote:

TJ> Hello,

TJ> Category names (watchlists included) are saved per-database.
TJ> Also the assignments of symbols to watchlists are saved per-database.

TJ> The "AA filter" window setting is kept unchanged, because filter
TJ> selection or any other part of AA window is not a part of the database.

I realize how it works of course.  My question was really along the
lines of, "Can this ever be changed in the future?"  Sorry if that
did not come through.

Yuki

>> Clearly, watchlists are and are intended to be segregated by
>> database, and for the most part this is accomplished very well.
>> 
>> But one lingering disappointment for me is that, if a particular
>> watchlist is selected in the backtest/exploration environment,
>> switching databases does not release that selection; it is maintained
>> from one database to the next.
>> 
>> For example, in one database, I have a watchlist for all Nikkei 225
>> issues.  It happens to be the original 'watchlist 0', renamed to
>> Nikkei225.  If I perform some operation in AB with that watchlist
>> selected as the filter, then subsequently change databases, I find
>> watchlist 0 (happens to be empty in that second database)
>> pre-selected in the filter routine, rather than no selection or (most
>> desirable for me) my previous selection when working in that database
>> earlier.
>> 
>> So, watchlist segregation, while allowing different names and
>> different content by database, is not 100 percent complete, or at
>> least operation of the filter and selected watchlist is maintained
>> from one database to the next. Could this selection process be made
>> completely independent by database?  Could a database retain its own
>> settings, rather than being reset by settings made while in another
>> database?
>> 
>> Yuki




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