The basic point I was trying to make in my first post is that I find the constant change in the price scale increment annoying.
i.e. if you are watching bars and comparing them to a vertical scale that has been showing increments of 25 cents...10.25, 10.50, 10.75, 11.00, 11.25 it is difficult to adapt to a new scale increment of 50 cents ...10.50, 11.00, 11.50, 12.00, 12.50... then a dollar ....12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 then back to a 50 cent increment...etc. etc.
I understand that....I was suggesting adding a new scale type that incorporates some of the functions of the Sliding scale.... except that the user would:
(1) select a vertical gridline separation increment...
QT would constantly fit the horizonal gridlines using that increment.
If the user chose to use 25 cents for this setting, adjacient prices on the y-axis would never change from a 25 cent increment to 50 cent increment. If the user chose to use 10 cents, 50 cents or one dollar, QT would adjust the gridlines to use those numbers as the difference between adjacient prices.
(2) this scale type would fix the current price to the centerline...
The most current price would stay centered in the chart window when new data came in - All price bars, gridlines and y-axis prices would repaint around the centerline....
I'm hoping that you could find a way to incorporate the fixed increment (part 1) for the vertical scale prices, even if the second half of the suggestion (part 2 above) doesn't appeal to you. Part 2 might be too CPU intensive because the entire chart would need to repaint too often...
i.e. if you are watching bars and comparing them to a vertical scale that has been showing increments of 25 cents...10.25, 10.50, 10.75, 11.00, 11.25 it is difficult to adapt to a new scale increment of 50 cents ...10.50, 11.00, 11.50, 12.00, 12.50... then a dollar ....12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 then back to a 50 cent increment...etc. etc.
I understand that....I was suggesting adding a new scale type that incorporates some of the functions of the Sliding scale.... except that the user would:
(1) select a vertical gridline separation increment...
QT would constantly fit the horizonal gridlines using that increment.
If the user chose to use 25 cents for this setting, adjacient prices on the y-axis would never change from a 25 cent increment to 50 cent increment. If the user chose to use 10 cents, 50 cents or one dollar, QT would adjust the gridlines to use those numbers as the difference between adjacient prices.
(2) this scale type would fix the current price to the centerline...
The most current price would stay centered in the chart window when new data came in - All price bars, gridlines and y-axis prices would repaint around the centerline....
I'm hoping that you could find a way to incorporate the fixed increment (part 1) for the vertical scale prices, even if the second half of the suggestion (part 2 above) doesn't appeal to you. Part 2 might be too CPU intensive because the entire chart would need to repaint too often...
