New user - problems


   The more I use Bullcharts - the more I like it. There are some quite annoying problems though. A good one that pops to mind is - you cannot easily change the symbol being displayed. This is something I am doing all the time, and it is quite annoying. 
ie - I am looking at BHP and I now want to look at CBA. How do I do it?
- If I have looked at CBA before, it will be in the dropdown MRU box - so I type in CBA and it loads. Excellent.
- if was not loaded before, and I type in the code, the system beeps at me. Nothing happens. What should happen is that the stock should load.
- After reading the manual, I found that F4 loads a new symbol. Ok - I hit F4 then type CBA then press ENTER. You get an error message saying that there is something wrong loading the data for stock"". This took me a while to work out - but what happens is that you hit F4, then type in CBA. But the edit field on the popup entry screen does not have focus. So where you are typing I have no idea. Anyway, nothing gets entered into the symbol field, so you get the error message. The error message should not be as it is -it should reflect the fact that you have entered a blank symbol code. And of course you should change the focus to the edit field when the dialog screen pops up.
- I do a File/New/Chart. For something that you are doing all the time, this is way too cumbersome.
It would be nice if you could fix both of these problems - allow for direct symbol entry in the dropdown MRU edit field - or get the F4 dialog to work.
It would also be nice to have a "Next stock", "Prev Stock" function. And this would work on the system where you were located in the Security Manager. ie if you were displaying an Index - "Next" would display the next Index. If you were in a Watchlist, then the next item in the watchlist, etc.
I hate to say it - but you really should have a very good look at FChartsPro. The user interface on that is really great. It does not have near as many bells and whistles as BC, but the interface and watchlist system is superb. 


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kneighbour Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 57	Post Options Post Reply Quote kneighbour Report Post Quote Reply Topic: New user - problems Posted: 12 Feb 2005 at 6:55pm
	The more I use Bullcharts - the more I like it. There are some quite annoying problems though. A good one that pops to mind is - you cannot easily change the symbol being displayed. This is something I am doing all the time, and it is quite annoying. ie - I am looking at BHP and I now want to look at CBA. How do I do it? - If I have looked at CBA before, it will be in the dropdown MRU box - so I type in CBA and it loads. Excellent. - if was not loaded before, and I type in the code, the system beeps at me. Nothing happens. What should happen is that the stock should load. - After reading the manual, I found that F4 loads a new symbol. Ok - I hit F4 then type CBA then press ENTER. You get an error message saying that there is something wrong loading the data for stock"". This took me a while to work out - but what happens is that you hit F4, then type in CBA. But the edit field on the popup entry screen does not have focus. So where you are typing I have no idea. Anyway, nothing gets entered into the symbol field, so you get the error message. The error message should not be as it is -it should reflect the fact that you have entered a blank symbol code. And of course you should change the focus to the edit field when the dialog screen pops up. - I do a File/New/Chart. For something that you are doing all the time, this is way too cumbersome. It would be nice if you could fix both of these problems - allow for direct symbol entry in the dropdown MRU edit field - or get the F4 dialog to work. It would also be nice to have a "Next stock", "Prev Stock" function. And this would work on the system where you were located in the Security Manager. ie if you were displaying an Index - "Next" would display the next Index. If you were in a Watchlist, then the next item in the watchlist, etc. I hate to say it - but you really should have a very good look at FChartsPro. The user interface on that is really great. It does not have near as many bells and whistles as BC, but the interface and watchlist system is superb. Edited by kneighbour

Decan_Frost Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Regular Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 40	Post Options Post Reply Quote Decan_Frost Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Feb 2005 at 12:48pm
	How do you do it!,change a symbol. Refer Peter,s tips for basic understanding on some cool features. Example.If your looking at NAB,just type the first letter of the new chart you want to see.After typing C a dialog box will appear then you can complete the CBA and hit enter!.

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List BullCharts Staff Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 241	Post Options Post Reply Quote Peter Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 14 Feb 2005 at 9:38am
	See this tip for details on how to easily change symbols in BullCharts. F4 seems work OK for me. If you're getting errors loading securities then please contact support so we can get some more details. Ctrl+N is the hot key to load a new chart. You can also access things like this through the actions menu. Or the new chart icon on the toolbar. To flip through all the stocks in a watchlist or to flip through the indices, press F6 to open the security manager. Find the group you're interested in (the indices themselves are located under All Securities/Security Types). When the group is selected, the list of codes will appear below. Click on an item. Then you can use the up/down arrows to flick between others. Or you can use the slideshow icons at the top of the security manager to automatically flick. I might make this weeks tip about the security manager. Hope this helps.