NeoTicker Blog

Special Notes

This release has made a lot of changes to NeoTicker that resolves known issues reported by users. If you are not affected by the reported issues, you may not want to update your NeoTicker to this release.

Complete documentation update will be added by next release addressing the new features in OLE Automation and IDL objects.

New Features

– New OLE functions
– New IDL and script indicator methods
– Screenshot Tool can now take snapshot of specific monitor, its FTP target includes Passive mode option, and the ability to add customized message.
– Time Chart can hide price axis completely
– Indicator Manager can resize the columns, ability to jump by first character of indicator name, and better highlight of selected indicator item
– Updated Type Library provided in the Samples directory

Bug Fixes

– Some OLE functions modified to non-holdup style so that these commands do not interfere with NeoTicker background activities like tick data processing, etc.
– NeoBreadth random real-time update problem when there are many definitions and the computer it is running on is extremely fast with multiple CPUs
– Loading blank even bar spacing tick charts has generally slower UI response
– RAM Cache data loading can affect charts loading in the foreground if abort button is pressed
– Very small charts do not display time stamp properly
– Apply button in Pane Setup Window sometimes do not function properly
– Itself.UpdateIndicatorEx and other similar Ex functions depending on user provided unique ID is not functioning properly
– QuoteSpeed V5 API DLL installed for QS V5 compatibility
– Indicators returning invalid values (+/- Nan, Inf) that affect NeoTicker with random odd behaviours

New ActiveX / OLE Functions

App Object

.ClearScriptErrorLog – Clear all messages in the script error log window

.TakeScreenshotEx (TargetSetting : string, CaptureType : integer, UpdateMessage : boolean, Message : string, CustomFilename : boolean, Filename : string)

CaptureType 0 for last used, 1 for desktop, 2 for window with border, 3 for window without border, and negative value (i.e. -N) for monitor N

FWTimeChart

.DefaultZoomFitAllBars : boolean (read/write property)

.DefaultZoomBarcount : integer (read/write property)

.RightSideSpacing : integer (read/write property)

.AutoScroll : boolean (read/write/property)

.AutoScrollPercentFromRightEdge : integer (read/write property)

.RedrawOnTimer : boolean (read/write property)

.RedrawOnTimerFrequency : integer (read/write property)

.DeleteIndicator (Index : integer, Prompt : boolean)

FunctionWindow object

.WriteProtected : boolean (read/write property)

.WindowBorder : boolean (read/write property)

.DistributeTarget : boolean (read/write property)

.Chained : string (read/write property)

New IDL / Script Indicator Methods

NTLib Object

.ClearScriptErrorLog

Itself Object

.UpdateOnPrimaryLinkOnly : boolean (read only property)

.LastBarOfRecalcDoNotUpdate : boolean (read only property)

Data Object

.IsData : boolean (read only property)

.IsIndicator : boolean (read only property)