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Joined: 3/16/2005
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I am excited about the potential for Blocks as a great technical analysis tool, but I am equally frustrated right now by its bugs, lack of fully built-out user interface and lack of decent documentation. If I click on Help in the menu and select Online User's Guide, it takes me to the Blocks home page on the web with nothing helpful. If I click on Knowledge Base, it takes me to the online knowledge base with listings of the built-in tools and strategies, but this is NOT a user's manual or helpful for learning basic functionality.
In the Denver presentation, we saw Michael Thompson show us that you could have more than one workspace window open on more than one monitor. Great. How do I do it? If I have Blocks open in the default Personal Chartist workspace and click on File / Open Workspace, wouldn't it be intuitive to have it open another workspace. All I get is a replacement of the current workspace with the one I have chosen to open. How do I create and open more than one workspace?
Thanks,
Michael
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Worden Trainer
Joined: 10/7/2004
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Michael,
In the upper left corner of blocks click on the 5th icon over from the Start button...that is the Add New Frame icon which opens a second frame you can drag to your second monitor. Then simply open a bar chart (from the Start button) and drag it to that window. Now you can customize that bar chart any way you'd like. Let me know if this helps.
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Michael T,
Great presentation at the San Diego Blocks Training Class.
I have a question on Add New Second Frame.
I have added a new Workspace as a second frame on another monitor, saved the new second frame to the Workspace.
Then at some point I close the added second frame, how do I re-open the added second frame without having to re-create the second frame from scratch?
Thanks
Winnie
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Worden Trainer
Joined: 10/1/2004
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You would have to save the WorkSpace with the second frame. You cannot save just a frame, only the entire WorkSpace.
- Craig
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Craig,
It would be nice if the second frame could be saved and then opened again with the Workspace. This will work but will have to remember not to close the second frame, or as you noted save it with and without the second frame.
Thanks again
Winnie
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Joined: 3/16/2005
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There are some things I love about TradeStation and some things I certainly can't stand. One of the things they have gotten right in their user interface is the opening/saving of desktops and workspaces. I'd love to see you get Blocks to work a bit more intuitively like TS does. I have struggled trying to set up a workspace on a second monitor and get a chart dropped onto it and then save it and then have it open up automatically when I open Blocks again. I can't make any of it work and I feel like a moron and like giving up.
One of the things that Michael Thompson struggled with in his Denver presentation was going through a bunch of work creating a new indicator, dropping it into a chart and then having to close Blocks because of memory buggyness. When he opened it back up, it had not saved his new object. So he had to recreate it in front of the class. Very tedious for him, I'm sure. Why wouldn't you design Blocks to always prompt the user about saving any unsaved objects so that they didn't accidentally lose stuff?
Michael
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Administration
Joined: 9/18/2004
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Under system - options change the Startup Options to Load Last Workspace.
When you shut down blocks it pops up an annyoing dialog every time that says:
Save Changes to Workspace?
Click yes every time. Doing the above it will always come up the last way you left it.
A true Reference manual should be out by the end of the week. It's being edited right now.
Ken Gilb (Kuf)
Chief Software Engineer - Worden Brothers Inc.
Try/Catch - My RealCode Blog
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