According to IB's release notes, there's a new feature in API v8.0 that offers overfill protection. However, the release notes states:
Any help would be much appreciated!
I'm no programmer, but it makes no mention of any changes to DDE syntax (for my Excel spreadsheet). Does anyone know what's the specific syntax change for the twsdde.xls spreadsheet, if any? Looking through the VBA, it doesn't look like there's any syntax change, since I couldn't seem to find any "quantity" tag that gets sent along with the quantity value.Reflecting this, the IB API Java class com.ib.client.Order has had the name of its m_quantity data member changed to m_totalQuantity. In a similar fashion, the name of the IB API C++ Order classâs quantity data member has been changed to totalQuantity. Using the new versions of these classes going forward will require adherence to that naming scheme.
Any help would be much appreciated!