General

Description

This functions allows you to adjust the interface and settings according to your preferences.

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General

You can turn on/off:

Floating windows mode

The application has always been a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application - this means that there is one large main window that hosts all the applications child windows (such as Market, Composite and Symbol windows). This makes it very easy to use, but it does limit the flexibility in where you can place windows and external applications.

To overcome these limitations, we have now introduced an optional application mode that we call Floating windows mode. This is turned off by default, but can be enabled by selecting Tools | User Interface and checking the [X] Floating windows setting.

This will shrink the size of the main window and move the virtual pages tab control just below the toolbar. We recommend placing the main window at the top of your monitor.

When you toggle between floating and non-floating mode, the application will try to convert the placement of the child windows accordingly, but in general we recommend that you choose one mode and stick with that mode. It should be possible to load old workspaces into the floating windows mode (as long as the screen resolution stays the same).

Grids

Select options to show grid lines, grid hints and alter grid colors. You can also choose between the search options in the Quick-search field (the dialog box that opens when you type eg a symbol in the Quote window). You can choose between Symbol, Description, ISIN and ExchSym (Exchange Symbol).

Calculating pre-market change

There is an option (default on) that enables calculation of change (+/- and +/-%) values in the pre-market period when there have been no trades (and thus no Last price), but the pre-trade Bid and Ask values match. This allows you to see where the market will open for each symbol that has pre-market orderbooks.

The option is controlled with the setting Tools | Preferences | User Interface | Grids | [X] Calculate pre-market +/- values (when Bid=Ask).

Regional

In the Regional page of the Tools | Preferences | User Interface Settings dialog, you can select your preferred default country. The default value will be taken from your Windows locale settings.

Note that the list of countries only includes countries from which you have access to streaming quotes. The selected country is used for the first two pages when creating a new automatic workspace (File | Create New Workspace). It also determines what country is shown at the top of the Select Market and Select News dialogs.

Browser

Choose internal or external browser and decide if you want to allow pop-ups or not.

Dialogs

Tick off the check box to restore all optional dialogs.

Choose dialog font size from the scroll menu.