AmiBroker/Win32 Release Notes |
VERSION 3.25 RELEASE NOTES
Version 3.25 (Apr 26th, 2000) includes following fixes & new features(compared to 3.24):
- Progress indicator is displayed now on the status bar during ASCII import
- Quotation database handling is now optimized for fast access to the most recent data. The most often operation: adding new/updating recent quotations is 2-3 times faster. This is noticeable when working with large databases (>40MB)
- "About" dialog closes automatically after loading the database (registered version only).
- Fixed crash when deleting trend lines in weekly/monthly mode.
- Refreshing stock tree & combo is now optimized (2-3 times faster)
VERSION 3.24 RELEASE NOTES
Version 3.24 (Mar 23rd, 2000) includes following fixes (compared to 3.23):
- Fixed bug in Metastock importer which appeared in v3.23
- Deleting vertical trend lines now works without problems
- File open dialogs for Import ASCII, Teletext and Metastock "remember" recently used directories
VERSION 3.23 RELEASE NOTES
Version 3.23 (Mar 21st, 2000) includes following new features and fixes (compared to 3.22):
- New format definition commands in ASCII import:
Added $CONT, $MARKET, $GROUP, $HYBRID commands and MARKET, GROUP, INFO, REDUCTION fields descriptions- Added user-definable file types and formats
- Ticker aliases added (recognizable by ASCII, Metastock and Teletext importers)
- Stock information enhancements: address field in enlarged to 128 characters, country and currency fields added (now informative only, but in future currency information will be used in portfolio for calculations)
- Bug fix: Stock list is now refreshed after ASCII import
- Fixed some stability issues
New format definition commands in ASCII import
The following new commands are available:
- $CONT <0 or 1> - continuous quotations flag
this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is set, newly added stocks are switched to continuous quotation mode (this means enabling candlestick charts for example)- $MARKET <number>
this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is specified, newly added stocks are assigned to market with given number.- $GROUP <number>
this affects $AUTOADD 1 mode - if this is specified, newly added stocks are assigned to group with given number- $HYBRID <0 or 1> - combine data in hybrid mode switch
when this flag is set, you can combine quotations from multiple files - for example one file can contain only open prices and volume and the other file can contain high/low/close data. Useful especially for Warsaw Stock Exchange for combining the data from fixing and later continuous quotations.Moreover followin new field definitions are accepted now by $FORMAT command:
- MARKET
specify a field that contains market ID (affects $AUTOADD mode only)- GROUP
specify a field that contains group ID (affects $AUTOADD mode only)- INFO
specify a field with additional information (WSE specific: nk, ns, rk, rs, ok, os, zd, bd )- REDUCTION
specify a field with reduction rate in percents (WSE specific)User-definable file types and formats
Now AmiBroker can use not only default.format definition file but also other user-specified files. File types, filters and format definition files are specified in import.types file (example is included in the update package). Now user can prepare/modify import.types file with the description of supported ASCII formats and filters to use. The format of import.types file is:
<Descriptive name>|<File filter>|<definition file name>
Note vertical line characters between these three fields. Example import.types file looks as follows:
Default ASCII (*.*)|*.*|default.format
Yahoo's CSV (*.csv)|*.csv|yahoo.format
Metastock ASCII (*.mst)|*.mst|metastock.format
Omega SC ASCII (*.txt)|*.txt|omega.format
S-Files (s*.*)|s*.*|sfile.format
C-Files (c*.*)|c*.*|cfile.format
Sharenet DAT (*.dat)|*.dat|dat.formatIf such file exists you will see your types in the "Files of type" combo-box and when you select one - appropriate filter will be used and after selecting some files and clicking OK - importer will use specified ".format" file.
In that way you can define as many text-based data formats as you like and AmiBroker will be able to "understand" them all.
Ticker aliases
Now each ticker can have an alias assigned, so the AmiBroker's built-in importers can recognize that stock by both ticker and alias names. This is useful when you are using two data sources that are using slighty different stock naming convention or if you want to give the stocks more intuitive name while retaining the ability to use importers without problems.
VERSION 3.22 RELEASE NOTES
Version 3.22 (Mar 5th, 2000) includes following new features and fixes (compared to 3.21):
- ASCII import is fixed now. Moreover the ASCII importer offers now much more flexibility thru format definition files (see Data management chapter of AmiBroker User's Guide for details). Example *.format files are included in the AmiBroker main directory.
- AFL analysis tools have been moved to a new "Analysis" menu
- Tools menu has been redesigned. Now it is customizable, so user can assign his new command/tools to the menu. You can lanuch executables (*.exe), Scripts (*.js, *vbs), HTML web pages (*.html) and any other type of file thru this custom tools mechanism.
- Save workspace now saves only those stocks that have changed. Save Workspace As.. now works and saves all stocks to a new directory.
- Stock information window works better now
VERSION 3.21 RELEASE NOTES
Version 3.21 (Feb 16th, 2000) includes following fixes (compared to 3.20):
- manual quotation editor works fine now
- commentary buy/sell arrows are drawn below/above candlesticks instead overwriting them
- deleting stock fixed
- when renaming the ticker AmiBroker checks now for already existing name
- commentary works correctly also on weekly/monthly charts now