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| Author: | hyperscalper [ Wed 19 Feb, 2014, 05:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Please support IChart.setInstrument |
Please why do you deprecate IChart.setInstrument ? Consider supporting it, please. I know you have some strategic direction here, but it appears we are forced to use standalone API clients, multiple clients and multiple logins, to achieve what should be simple objectives through simple Strategy modules we could run locally within the JForex platform framework. If you are concerned with Strategy modules having "too much power", then why can't we have a permissions-based system where Strategies are granted permissions to do things like switch charts, select instruments for charts which they create, and so on... When the strategy is run, user can be prompted whether to grant the permission to the Strategy module. When we have to write standalone API systems, we have to duplicate functions which should be easily accessible from within the JForex platform. I've written my share of complex standalone clients, but only when it's a really big project. For small things I'd like to write simple Strategies and run them locally within the JForex platform framework. Can't there be a simple permissions framework which permits Strategy modules do perform certain functions, rather than just to deprecate them and thus force us to write standalone clients? When we write standalone clients we have to manage connection/reconnection logic, login and captcha logic, run a distinct separate process, manage chart attributes, and a whole host of things which the JForex platform already offers, if only we could simply plug our Strategy in and run it, thus leveraging the platform. Does anybody else feel this way? HyperScalper |
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| Author: | tcsabina [ Wed 19 Feb, 2014, 13:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Please support IChart.setInstrument |
Hi, I myself not writing standalone clients, but I understand your frustration. I am pretty sure Support will consider what you have explained there, and/or explain the reason of their decision about setIntrument(). |
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| Author: | API Support [ Fri 21 Feb, 2014, 09:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Please support IChart.setInstrument |
We are going to implement: IChart.setFocus(); |
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| Author: | hyperscalper [ Mon 24 Feb, 2014, 05:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Please support IChart.setInstrument |
Thank you. Temporarily I tried to use IChart.setInstrument(...). It's deprecated, but also it doesn't seem to work. API 2.9.5.1 I'd very much like simply to IChart.setInstrument, but to keep the chart attributes as they are. As my remote HyperBots open and close positions, I'd like to be able to switch to the appropriate charts locally to view the ongoing trades. Simple requirement but, just to implement it with a simple Strategy, I have to jump through hurdles..... I'm not an expert on charts and attributes, but once I have the theme set up, and a few indicators, all I'd like to do is to be able to switch it to another instrument. After all, I created the chart, why can't I set the instrument to a different one? Hope IChart.setFeedDescriptor(...) will do that. This from a "normal" JForex Strategy, so that I don't have to write yet another standalone API client please... Your IChart.setFeedDescriptor(...) I hope will achieve this. Thanks for all your support. HyperScalper |
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| Author: | API Support [ Mon 25 May, 2015, 07:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Please support IChart.setInstrument |
The new functions will be available with the next API release. |
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| Author: | Jellybean [ Tue 26 May, 2015, 23:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Please support IChart.setInstrument |
API Support wrote: The new functions will be available with the next API release. Thank you, this is very good news for me. Cheers Tony |
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