What's New in 5.6

Quick Search to switch contents

Most windows allow you to switch contents just by starting to type. For instance, in all symbol windows (like quote overview, chart, orderbook etc) you can type a ticker code or (part of) a description to quickly find and go to that instrument.

Note that matching will start immediately for symbols that have already been downloaded in a market window or other windows - this makes it lightning quick to switch between the instruments you know. If there are no local matches or you wait a second, you will also get matches on all available markets. Press Enter to select the highlighted top item, press the down arrow key to select items further down in the list. Press Escape to close the search box without changing the selected symbol.

From a market window, you can start typing to search for symbols in the current list (to change focus/link to that symbol).

In the Chains list of a Composite window, you can start typing to search for any available chain. This is an alternative to browsing the available chains by pressing the Edit button on the Composite toolbar.

Search and Command (Ctrl+F)

In the main window, along with the other toolbars, there is a field where you can search for anything and perform commands.

To start searching, click in the box or just press Ctrl+F.

Here you can search for companies, symbols, chains, pages, markets, and commands, just start typing. Each kind of match result is indicated by a colored category text.

To select the top, highlighted match, just press Enter. To select another result, click it or select it with the down arrow key and press Enter. To clear the search, press Escape, or focus another window.

Depending on what kind of item you select in the search results, different windows will open.

Commands

There are two types of commands - with and without parameters.

Parameter-less commands complete once you select them - they will immediately open the window they represent - for instance, Forex table, Help, Composite and Twitter.

Other commands take a single parameter - once the command has been found and selected, a new search that matches the parameter type will start. This makes it easy to quickly open a chart or orderbook for a specific symbol, for instance.

To make it quicker to search for and use commands, you can start typing the beginning of the command and then press the Tab key. This will skip all other search results, and select the first matching command item.

The full list of available commands at this point is (may be expanded in future versions):

Help

Use the last six commands as a quick and easy way of filtering the search results so that you only see matches of a specific type.

Convert currencies in Search and Command (Ctrl+F)

The search and command field can also be used to quickly convert an amount to another currency. Just click the field or press Ctrl+F and type in amount and currency to and from, e.g.: "1000 USD to CHF". You can click on the result to copy it to the clipboard.

Calendar filter

The Calendar has a Quick-Filter that allows you to filter which macro- or company events are displayed. Click on "Quick-Highlight", change to "Quick-FIlter" and start typing in the filter word.

Calendar expand/collapse

Events with sub-events in the Calendar can now be expanded or collapsed. Click on the plus/minus-sign next to the event to expand/collapse a single event. Expand or collapse all can be performed from the right-click menu. You can also select in the Filter panel whether the filter should be default expanded or not with the "Expanded" check box.

Symbol News Filter

The Symbol News window now has filtering. Start typing or click the "Filter" button to create a filter. You can also filter which news sources to use by clicking the "Feed" column header.