AmiBroker 6.93.0 Official release

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A new official release version (6.93.0) of AmiBroker is available now.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

32-bit version:
https://www.amibroker.com/members/download.php?AmiBroker.6.93.0.exe

64-bit version:
https://www.amibroker.com/members/download.php?AmiBroker.6.93.0.x64.exe

HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights are documented in What's new in AmiBroker 6.93

DOCUMENTATION

For the details see ReadMe.html and ReleaseNotes.html inside AmiBroker folder, F1 help, as well as in the on-line guide AmiBroker 6.93 User's Guide

UPGRADE POLICY

This version is a free upgrade only for users who registered AmiBroker after August 16, 2022 . Users who registered earlier, would need to purchase license upgrade. To find out the version you currently have use Account Information page at https://www.amibroker.com/members/info.php

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.93.0 (as compared to 6.92.0)

  1. New integrated software updater/downloader/installer. A new menu Help->Check for and Install updates allows to check for AmiBroker software updates and install them directly from AmiBroker
  2. AFL Editor: Ctrl+C (Edit->Copy) without selection copies now entire line. Then if entire line is present in the clipboard, Ctrl+V (Paste) will perform whole line paste (instead at the selection)
  3. AFL Editor: new key commands implemented Alt-UP arrow - Move selected lines UP, Alt-DOWN arrow - Move selected lines DOWN
  4. UI: copy to clipboard from any listview now respects selection so only selected rows (if any) are copied instead of all rows as before. If nothing is selected, entire list is copied

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.92.0 (as compared to 6.91.0)

  1. Added 'Warning 904' when SetOpacity is called without proper settings ("Multithreaded charts" and "QuickGFX" must be turned on in the Preferences)
  2. Charts (formula) treeview now uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  3. Interpretation window now uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  4. Layers list now uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  5. Layout treeview now uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  6. Notepad window uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  7. Symbol Information window now uses Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog
  8. Symbol list and category tree now use Dark Mode when it is selected in the Customize/Appearance dialog

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.91.0 (as compared to 6.90.6)

  1. AFL: AddColumn supports 2 new formats: formatDateOnly and formatTimeOnly to display DateTime() values
  2. AFL: SetOpacity( opacity = 1 ); to change opacity level (0..1) for subsequent Plot() calls. Opacity = 1 means totally opaque, 0.5 - half-transparent (translucent) 0 - completely transparent (invisible)
  3. QuickGFX: Improved rendering of line plots with width>1 to better align with GDI output
  4. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleBar plots
  5. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleCandle plots
  6. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleDashed plots
  7. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleDots plots
  8. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleLine plots
  9. QuickGFX: Opacity / Alpha blending implemented for styleStaircase plots
  10. QuickGFX: Opactity / Alpha blending implemented for styleArea plots
  11. QuickGFX: Opactity / Alpha blending implemented for styleHistogram plots
  12. UI: Column widths in Plugins window scale to DPI
  13. UI: Parameter dialog now keeps the collapsed state of sections, individually on per-chartID basis (for as long as AmiBroker is running)

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.90.6 (as compared to 6.90.5)

  1. HtmlView (report viewer) now calculates its initial size from screen DPI so it gets larger on hidpi screens automatically
  2. HtmlView (report viewer) remembers its last window size now
  3. HtmlView (report viewer) has "HiDPI aware" flag set in the manifest, that prevents Windows for blurring window
  4. AFL Reference now uses internal viewer that is able to redirect to online version of the guide if help on particular topic is missing from off-line (CHM) version
  5. Changed timestamp formatting in results.rlst back to previously used scheme with '-' and ';' separators

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.90.5 (as compared to 6.90.1)

  1. AFL: new field Status("seqstep") for reporting current sequence step (1-based), returns 0 if action is NOT run as part of sequence
  2. NewAnalysis: "auto size to fit content" makes columns 10% wider than before because MS ListView "autosizing" calculation does not account for any margin
  3. NewAnalysis: default width of columns is now scaled by screen DPI so they are not too narrow on HighDPI screens
  4. Text tool now has new "Use pixel co-ordinates" mode that allows to fix position of text to pixel coordinates so it stays in place when you move the chart
  5. Maximum number of parameters per section increased to 1000
  6. Commentary editor (richedit based, not scintilla) displays multi-line calltips now (maxtipswidth called and long static buffer used)
  7. Added Help->Activate License dialog to provide better user experience than given by MS SmartScreen :frowning:

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.90.1 (as compared to 6.90.0)

  1. Registry key changed back to previously used HKCU\Software\TJP\Broker
  2. Report Explorer command line handling fixed

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.90.0 (as compared to 6.49.1)

  1. AFL Editor: now extended function description is displayed in parameter tooltips for all AFL functions
  2. AFL: All Gui* control functions added extra 'style' parameter
  3. AFL: renamed Map() to MapCreate() to avoid conflicts with existing code using 'map' word as variable identifier, and added alias MxCreate to Matrix for consistency
  4. AFL: SetOption - added yet another protection against passing absurd values in AFL for AccountMargin (outside 1..100)
  5. AFL: SparseInterpolate function added to interpolate values between sparse points given as input
  6. AmiQuote - when UserDataSources.xml config file is not found in the current working directory, change CWD to the directory where Quote.exe is located
  7. Charts: an error is displayed when user has zoomed in / scrolled into blank (no quote) area so there are no data to display
  8. Charts: Removed data access from non-GUI thread in DrawStockCustom()
  9. Charts: when pressing "END" key blank bars are only added upto the point where at least 1 data point is visible on chart
  10. Filter dialog: added a "Clear All" button to Clear BOTH Include and Exclude pages in one click
  11. New Analysis: Exploration: Removed limit of column text length in AddTextColumn
  12. New Analysis: Filter dialog would show categories that were assigned BLANK names (or no name at all as) "" to make sure that users don't assume that selecting empty name is the same as pressing clear button. It isn't
  13. NewAnalysis: changed notice when "Apply to" filtering was too strict so no symbol matched to instruct user to switch to "All symbols" or change the filter
  14. NewAnalysis: Individual optimization crashed when GenerateReports was turned on. Fixed.
  15. NewAnalysis: Removed data access from non-GUI thread in SetupParser in GetNumberOfQuotations
  16. NewAnalysis: sharing violation could occur on attempt to write shared results.rlst file when doing Individual optimization with GenerateReports. Fixed.
  17. NewAnalysis: since AmiBroker in individual optimization mode is fast enough to produce dozens of reports in single millisecond a timestamp for report folder needed to use more resolution than 1ms. Fixed using unique counter. Now folder has YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS
  18. NewAnalysis: when user turned on 'Pad and Align" but reference symbol does not exist in current database, an Error 76 is displayed.
    Regression in 6.49.1 - formulas with lots of AddToComposites could run slower, now changed idle processing so queue is emptied faster
  19. ReportExplorer: file re-reads/refreshes are 10x faster now
  20. ReportExplorer: in case of file sharing violation due to intermittient update of file by the other process, the message is quietly displayed in the status bar instead of modal blocking dialog box
  21. ReportExplorer: now uses hyper-fast list view implementation borrowed from AmiBroker. Results in 20x display performance improvement
  22. UI: Changed the way how "Start page" is displayed in the absence of other MDI windows to prevent opening more than one on loading layout
  23. UI: Filter dialog now provides instructions to press Clear to start over if filtering resulted in no symbols meeting selected criteria
  24. UI: Fixed crash when user attempted to make "Start page" floating
  25. UI: regression Log window did not show runtime errors from charts in 6.49.1. Fixed
  26. UI: Symbol bar, a context menu key on the keyboard (VK_APPS) brings up context menu (in addition to right click)
  27. UI: Symbol/Category view and Category dialog do not allow to set category names to empty (blank) - it will revert to default name if user attempted to remove name completely
  28. When weekly time compression was used, "MonthlyWeeklyUseAlwaysLastTradingDay" mode was used, Monday was not a trading day, and only Tuesday was present, then weekly bar had Monday timestamp instead of Tuesday. Fixed.

Previous version AmiBroker 6.92.0 BETA release

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Meant to say after upgrade and launching from my desktop I received the 'expired message on startup.

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As written in the announcement it is free upgrade only for those who purchased AmiBroker license after August 2022.

The message free upgrade period expired should be self explanatory. It means that two year free upgrade period since the purchase has passed. It means you have purchased your license before cutoff date (August 16, 2022) and your license is too old to get this as free upgrade.

You might install.older version or purchase 2 years of upgrades and maintenance for half the price Order upgrade

The other reason is that you might still be using old key instead of the latest one that you received in AmiBroker registration email. Either locate latest AmiBroker registration email in your inbox and download current (most recent) key, or use lost key form if you can't find it AmiBroker - Log - in to members area

General rule is, that after the purchase, even if it is upgrade purchase, you are receiving NEW KEY in "AmiBroker registration" email, that should be installed, even if older one temporarily works.

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Tomasz, thank you. The NEW KEY was the answer. Kudos to you and your team.

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Why I get diferent colors for Plot ML and Title ML ?
In the image below I expect both to be red.

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_N(Title = "{{VALUES}}");

ml = MA(C, 10);
sl = MA(C, 20);

cc = IIf( ml > sl, colorGreen, colorRed );

Plot( ml, "Plot ML", cc, styleLine);
Plot( sl, "", colorBlack, styleLine);

_N(Title = Title + EncodeColor(SelectedValue(cc)) + " \nTitle ML" 
	+ EncodeColor(colorDefault) + " = " 
	+ StrFormat("%1.2f", Nz(ml)));

image

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No, Plot color is the same as value label color of that plot and it represents last visible value on chart, so label colors match title colors.

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I just expressed my support by paying for an upgrade to Amibroker's latest version.

Good job! Thanks.

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Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Amibroker Error
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Am receiving an error when I am trying to install the latest version using the inbuilt Amibroker Installer

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This is absolutely normal. You just close AmiBroker And AmiQuote to install updates. Windows doesn't allow changing executable files that are in use.

This is not an error. This is information to you.

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Thanks @Tomasz.
So the process is to Look for Updates through the Help menu, Close the Amibroker window and rerun after the new version is installed.

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Not really.

The setup as the message says would attempt to close running application automatically if you just press "NEXT". Sometimes it might not work, if you for example have UNSAVED work and AmiBroker would wait for you to save the files you have modified (will display message box). Then you would need to save your unfinished work and exit manually.

Also the setup re-launches the program automatically.

So in general case you just press "NEXT".