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NOTE: With the creation of the Thinking Stuff User Manual (available on the Download page), this Knowledge Base has become more of just an announcements area. So maybe not so interesting. Try the Blog instead.
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Articles from
March 2006
Apparently nothing. What was meant to be fixed was the Chart window not opening. Please read "My Chart Window Doesn't Open" on how to manually fix the problem yourself.
- When opening View Price Data and Manually Load Price Data windows, receive error "The path is not of a legal form".
- Downloaded missing price data - got "violates unique index" error.
- Download Trans. Now button, for Polled Transactions - received "index out of range" error.
- Correct the directory for backtest files, so they are stored in [installation directory]\backtests\.
- How to tell if the authentication key was downloaded successfully? FIX: Put status labels on Auto Trading window, so user can see if anything's happening.
- Disable windows when cursor is set to hourglass. Clicks are still buffered, and will still do stuff after the window is re-enabled, but they'll happen after the window has reset.
- Now use an ini file to store the last used login details. If the ini file exists, those details populate the fields so all the user has to do is type in the password. If the ini file does not exist, it must (probably) be the first time the user has started up the software, so it takes them directly the Database Setup tab.
- Add/Edit/Delete buttons on Messages window do not do anything.
- Unread messages text should be "Unread Messages. Click here to view"
- Set the default button on User Admin Update window to the Save button.
- Major GUI changes:
- added Add, Edit, and Delete buttons on all search windows.
- Save buttons on all update windows.
- some Start and Stop buttons where needed.
- Add... menu item off main menu
- Put Xs back at top right hand corner, for easy closing of windows.
- Error "trr_system_id cannot be null" on saving trading rule. You first need to save the core details of the system before adding rules, but had left the button to add rules enabled.
- Error "value too long for type character varying(50)" when an invalid password has been entered for a user, and then click the "Obtain authentication key now" button on the Command Centre. Now shows a more descriptive error, with suggestions on how to fix it.
- Error "Specified cast not valid" when click "Download Trans. Now" button for transaction polling. Had the account number being stored as text, and was using it as both text and a number. Changed to always be a number.
- COUNT() function in PostgreSQL returns a 64-bit number (as opposed to 32-bit), which caused some other "Specified cast not valid" errors.
- Could not edit a user that did not have a password entered for it when it was first created.
- Starting backtesting on both existing configuration and any configuration windows threw an error (although different errors). PostgreSQL says SELECT 0; returns an int4, and definitely not an int2 nor double.
- Things with a Last Updated Date field will fail on the 2nd update when choosing to "save and don't close" the window on the 1st update. Fixed for now by removing the "save and don't close" option, although I might put them back later. Currenly not essential to the proper functioning of the software.
- Trading System ID no longer needs to be 10 characters long.
- Ensured the account's type (of Paper or Real) is now used where needed.
- Use wait cursor instead of disabling everything when background threads are running. This is to stop the object with focus losing the focus. But, by doing so have introduced another bug. The mouse icon merely changes to the hourglass. That is, it is still active and can still click stuff. To make it inactive, need to set the mouse for the entire application (as opposed to just the window in question) to the hourglass, but I don't want to do that.
- The row count label is sometimes not completely visible on some windows.
- Change "item" to the actual entity name in the menu on all windows.
- Minor GUI changes.
- Does not work when connecting to the Internet through a proxy server (normally happens when installing on a work computer). FIX: Now utilises the proxy settings as specified in Internet Explorer.
- Command Centre window is too wide for a screen resolution of 1024x768.
- Program crashes when answer "Yes" to "Do you want to upgrade DB from v0.6.0 to v0.6.1?"
- Cannot create new database if the default root username ("postgres") was not kept when installing PostgreSQL.
- Minor GUI changes.
- Installed Thinking Stuff, but when it was run it would just show an error. (Requirement that the .NET Framework v2.0 is installed. This is available in the Optional section at Windows Update).
- Created a root user with mixed-case letters, but the field only allows lower-case letters to be entered. (PostgreSQL users and database names are case sensitive. Names containing upper-case letters needed to have quotes placed around them. Did that and removed the lower-case restriction on that and the other fields on the Login page).
- Can't log in to a new database created with a new user of less privileges. (Was setting the owner of the new database correctly, but each table was still owned by the root user).
- No buttons to push to do anything. No X in the top right to close a window. (There is actually a menu at the bottom of each individual window, with a single menu item that says "I Want To...". That menu item allows you to do absolutely anything and everything you want to do, including closing the window. Unfortunately all windows seem to have shrunk on all but the development machine, making that "I Want To..." practically invisible. Also put buttons on the Login window to make it easier for new users).
- Couldn't work out how to add a new user. (All windows follow the same format - Search, Add, Edit, Delete. If you want to add a new anything, first you go to the Search page for that thing, which will at first show no entries. Click "I Want To..." and then "Add a new item". Fill in the details on the new window that opens, and then choose "I Want To..." and "Save and close the window". Now you should be back at the Search window. Click the Search button. Your new item should now be displayed. You can then highlight that item, and choose "I Want To..." edit or remove).
- Could create a new user, but when I went to enter the details of that user's account, the new user did not appear in the User dropdown list. (Found a redundant table in the query that populates that dropdown).
- Minimum screen resolution requirement is 1024x768, but there are some windows which are wider than that. (Development machine has resolution 1280x768, so that wasn't picked up earlier. Command Centre is still too wide).
- Went to edit a system's rule, and received an error "unable to cast object of type System.Int32 to type System.String."
- The Intuition and Unknown trading systems (required by the software to function properly) should not be marked as available for auto trading.
- Remove hyphens from Rule Types to save some space.
- Minor GUI changes.
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