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Hi Dave,
Welcome to the forum and thank you very much for that contribution.
Hope you have plenty of bandwidth :)
Regards,
William Peters (AmiBroker Group Moderator)
www.amitools.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 12:26:13 PM, you wrote:
d> I've just recently purchased AmiBroker and am in the process of
d> learning how to use it. One of the things that attracted to the
d> program is its flexibility and active user community.
d> In particular, one of the assets I found attractive is the library
d> of AFL files that have been contributed by users over the years. To
d> make access to this library easier, I wrote a little script that
d> downloads all of the files in the AFL Library and installs them in
d> the AmiBroker/Formulas/AFL Library directory so that I can easily
d> access them from the "Charts" page of the "Workspace" window. I've
d> further categorized them into sections like "Indicator", "System",
d> and so on, based on the original author's classification.
d> Then, to keep things up-to-date, I automatically run the script
d> nightly to check for any updates on the AmiBroker web site. Any new
d> additions are downloaded and installed into the proper categories.
d> Furthermore, I have a section called "Latest" which shows all AFL
d> Files added in the last 30 days. And to let myself know that updates
d> have been made, I send myself an e-mail describing what changes have
d> been made to the library.
d> In the process of writing this script, I began to think that this
d> might be useful to other AmiBroker users besides myself. So I've
d> modified the script to also build an afl_library.zip file containing
d> all of the contributed AFL files and upload it to my personal web
d> site, where anyone can download it. If anyone is interested, the URL
d> for this is:
d> http://www.themorrillfamily.com/david/downloads
d> I've also modified the script so that it can send update e-mails to
d> a distribution list, so if anyone is interested in these update e-
d> mails, let me know and I will add you to the distribution list as
d> well. The e-mail contains a summary of the AFL files that have been
d> added to the library, as well as the complete text of the added
d> files. If you want to be added to the list, let me know at
d> dmorrill_2004 at yahoo dot com. Please mention "AFL Library e-mail"
d> in the subject line (so that I don't automatically delete it as
d> spam).
d> I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the AFL Library
d> for sharing their scripts and ideas, and I hope my little script
d> will make the library just a little more useful to others also. In
d> particular, I'm hoping it will encourage people who post useful
d> scripts to this mailing list to also take a moment to post them to
d> the amibroker.com web site also, to facilitate sharing with other
d> users.
d> Note that my script does not make any changes to the contributed AFL
d> files other than to add a comment header which lists all of the
d> information and descriptive text provided by the file's author when
d> it was originally added to the AmiBroker AFL Library. This is to
d> help ensure that the original author and amibroker.com web site
d> receive proper credit once the file is installed.
d> Dave Morrill
d> Check AmiBroker web page at:
d> http://www.amibroker.com/
d> Check group FAQ at:
d> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amibroker/files/groupfaq.html
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