Irritating Bugs (because they occur so often)
Posted: Aug 31 2006
Hi guys,
There are still a lot of irritating bugs mainly because you encounter them many times a day and each time they take a few seconds to correct. Generally they are UI type things.
1) If you have linked cursors and click on another chart to make it active the previous chart will jump to that point in time. Im constantly adjusting charts back. (of course the previous chart might jump while you are fixing the last chart). Click on a 5 minute then a daily the 5 minute will jump back days. This is a major PIA as if I have linked cursors on I'm constantly scrolling charts back to the current time.
Actually I like this now though a quick way to return all charts to the current bar would be good. Currently I just go to the lowest time frame chart scroll to the right and click on the last bar. This brings all linked back.
2) Chart windows minimise/maximise in random places sometimes off the screen.
3) Chart scaling and zoom factor is not remembered session to session.
4) After minimising and maximising multicharts the toolbars re-arrange themselves so they are 'stacked' rather than in a ribbon end on end. This is mentioned in the beta thread by another user. i think its something to do with a dialogue box from another application grabbing focus. It occurs if you have an application flashing on the task bar minimise MC then maximise it again. I have now turned off my toolbars which is not accebtable long term.
EDIT: 5) Zoom mode. You remain in zoom, I think probably you should not. This would be OK if it was easy to cancel (right click perhaps). As it is if I want to zoom in to adjust a drawn line I need to select another tool to cancel zoom then click in chart to cancel the tool. Right click cancel/undo would be neat in drawing by the way.
Drawing Tools.
1) Snap - snaps to the object on layer 0. It should snap to the object with the tick next to it (or at least to the first data series). Just a simple chart with price on top of volume, Drawing tools will snap to volume. My use is more complex and it is not possible to have price on layer 0 as it will obscure indicators.
2) Drawing tools are not consistent some need click some need click and drag.
3) Andrews pitchfork requires an extra click before it starts excepting points.
4) Linear regression is 'hard wired' to work on layer 0 so dosen't work unless it finds data1 there, similar to problem 1. I think I have discovered other areas where MC assumes that data 1 is on layer 0, can't remember off hand. Understandable as layering was not designed in from day one but added later.
I'd love to see drawing tools get a make over when time permits. A lot of extra utility could be had for minimal effort. Take a look at Ensigns drawing tools and how they are implemented, worth checking out the range of visualizations that are available there too.
As I said these are small issues but all except the last couple cause headaches!
All the best.
Cheers,
Nick.
There are still a lot of irritating bugs mainly because you encounter them many times a day and each time they take a few seconds to correct. Generally they are UI type things.
1) If you have linked cursors and click on another chart to make it active the previous chart will jump to that point in time. Im constantly adjusting charts back. (of course the previous chart might jump while you are fixing the last chart). Click on a 5 minute then a daily the 5 minute will jump back days. This is a major PIA as if I have linked cursors on I'm constantly scrolling charts back to the current time.
Actually I like this now though a quick way to return all charts to the current bar would be good. Currently I just go to the lowest time frame chart scroll to the right and click on the last bar. This brings all linked back.
2) Chart windows minimise/maximise in random places sometimes off the screen.
3) Chart scaling and zoom factor is not remembered session to session.
4) After minimising and maximising multicharts the toolbars re-arrange themselves so they are 'stacked' rather than in a ribbon end on end. This is mentioned in the beta thread by another user. i think its something to do with a dialogue box from another application grabbing focus. It occurs if you have an application flashing on the task bar minimise MC then maximise it again. I have now turned off my toolbars which is not accebtable long term.
EDIT: 5) Zoom mode. You remain in zoom, I think probably you should not. This would be OK if it was easy to cancel (right click perhaps). As it is if I want to zoom in to adjust a drawn line I need to select another tool to cancel zoom then click in chart to cancel the tool. Right click cancel/undo would be neat in drawing by the way.
Drawing Tools.
1) Snap - snaps to the object on layer 0. It should snap to the object with the tick next to it (or at least to the first data series). Just a simple chart with price on top of volume, Drawing tools will snap to volume. My use is more complex and it is not possible to have price on layer 0 as it will obscure indicators.
2) Drawing tools are not consistent some need click some need click and drag.
3) Andrews pitchfork requires an extra click before it starts excepting points.
4) Linear regression is 'hard wired' to work on layer 0 so dosen't work unless it finds data1 there, similar to problem 1. I think I have discovered other areas where MC assumes that data 1 is on layer 0, can't remember off hand. Understandable as layering was not designed in from day one but added later.
I'd love to see drawing tools get a make over when time permits. A lot of extra utility could be had for minimal effort. Take a look at Ensigns drawing tools and how they are implemented, worth checking out the range of visualizations that are available there too.
As I said these are small issues but all except the last couple cause headaches!
All the best.
Cheers,
Nick.