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Version 0.6.a Source Code November 26, 2008

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The source code for version 0.6.a is now available trough the downloads page.

Version 0.6.a Uploaded November 24, 2008

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The Plaform has made a big step in a little over a month. Here are the main features of this release:

+ Backtesting to historical data

+ Historical data part of the distribution package

+ Integrated diagnostics capabitilies

+ Chart control optimizations (it can now easily handle 500,000 items)

+ Chart control custom objects (horizontal, vertical lines, fibonacci lines etc.)

+ Meta Trader 4 integration wizard (integrate with MT4 with 2 clicks)

+ Order management

And many more. You can find the version out at the downloads section.

Technical Issues - GDI+ November 17, 2008

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We have been tackling GDI+ issues the last few days. As it turns out, GDI+ is rather poor when it comes to handling some more ambitious transformations and scaling. Very small in size (0.001 or less) and very large (10,000 or more) objects are either clipped improperly, cause an overflow exception or do not show at all.

To handle this, the chart control is now using “managed” drawing mechanism. This means all coordinates calculations are done “behind” from the GDI+ graphics objects, and only those objects that need to be drawn at the screen are passed on. The Graphics transformation is always kept at default to evade any issues.

The overall resolution of this issue has also allowed some extra features, that were hard to have before - like having dash lines or uniform text.

Since we managed to get these problems out of the way, the new release is expected to be ready 22.Nov, exactly one month after the initial one. It is a huge huge step for the platform over a very small time period, and it will show when it is out.