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Re: TS2ki: ES Z2=2 causes excessive flicker/redraw?



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Yes. I have found that problem too. Tradestation support has a fix for that which works sometimes (I forget what it was and now use Tradestation 6). 

Paul

At 11:04 AM 10/7/02 -0700, Kenneth Lu wrote:
>I finally got my TS2ki system cleaned up datawise and was trying to
>following the live markets today and run into an incredibly annoying
>flicker problem.
>
>Whenever I plot the ES Z2=2 contract, TS2k redraws the entire chart a few
>times every second.  The weird thing is that it does not happen with ES
>Z2.  When plotting two charts of ES Z2=2, my CPU usage goes up to 35% as
>compared to under 10% when plotting ES Z2.
>
>Computer stats:
>Dual P3-800, 768mb of memory (plenty available)
>Appian Hurricane dual screen display
>
>Datafeed is Esignal 7.1.
>I manually added ES Z2=2 to the OmegaServer symbol list to collect only
>the day session, and changed the existing ES Z2 to collect the globex
>night session as well.
>
>I've also checked anything else that might cause redraws like improper
>scaling of studies, but the flicker happens even on a simple 5 min bar
>chart with no studies applied and the last price in the middle of the
>range.  I've also turned off titlebar and the status line displays in each
>chart with no effect.
>
>Anyone run into anything like this before?  Wondering if this is caused by
>having two symbols with similar roots or if excessive symbol name causes
>TS to thrash or if the equal sign is causing problems?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Ken