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Hi everyone, we are excited to introduce the new terminal design! The community has already started providing helpful feedback across numerous channels, but we wanted to create this thread a central place for discussion.
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- What happened? (i.e. "my backtest won't open")
- When? (i.e. "anytime I try to open a backtest from my project")
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- If possible, provide a screenshot.
Tom vang
Is the API helper still available to use?
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Clayton Berry
Feature Requests:
1. Layout of the screen - can you use a cookie to remember if we have the sidebar open or closed and keep that setting next time we launch QC? That'd be the side bar that has the 5 links to My Projects, Boot Camp, etc.?
2) In a similar vein, we used to be able to collapse the 2nd side bar (noted in picture below in Gray with the file names, libraries, etc). Can we create a feature request to be able to close that to maximize code real estate?
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Douglas Stridsberg
Strange bug with live deployments. Chrome 76.0.3809.36.
Picture showing part of the issue.
No specific log messages are shown that weren't already showing in the old version.
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Douglas Stridsberg
In fact - you can see the same behaviour in Clayton Berry's screenshot in the post above.
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Laurent Crouzet
Douglas Stridsberg : very weird!
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Mitch Carrara
If I'm seeing correctly, in the my projects folder it doesn't have a symbol of which algorithms are shared with others until I open the project itself.
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Jared Broad
Thanks Douglas Stridsberg we weren't able to repeat the issue! We'll push a fix this morning.
Thank you Mitch Carrara :) Will push that out today too =)
tom vang - it wasn't, but glad to see it's getting so many votes! We didn't think people were using it, we'll put it back in!
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Craig Hollingsworth
Hi,
I'd echo the comment above about being able to minimize the second panel as before to create more space for the code window.
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Emilio Freire
Same about minimizing the second panel!
Thanks!
Emilio
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Petter Hansson
1) I have the jumbled GUI elements as described above when pressing View Live button on live project list to the left, until I press View Live tab to the right. I.e. no blocker.
2) I don't see any custom runtime statistics anymore (QCAlgorithm.SetRuntimeStatistic) in live algos that definitely should have it. This does suck and is a huge deal since this is how I gauge the algo's internal sub-signals.
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Petter Hansson
Also having a very weird GUI layout when launching a new live instance right now, it is navigable though.
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Petter Hansson
Runtime stats and jumbled GUI for live view seem fixed now! Thanks guys.
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Petter Hansson
On a side note, the live algo instance list accessible from left hand side is fairly large on my 1920x1080 screen and only shows two instances at a time, which is slightly problematic as I'm trying to keep track of what four or more of them are doing. Two column format would make more sense here to allow twice as many algos instead of right half of screen being unused, if the list cannot overlap the project view anymore (as it seems).
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Petter Hansson
And now old interface (without runtime stats though) is back... It's been flipping between the new and old one a lot.
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Clayton Berry
Agree with Peter on the Live trading tile format. I'm using a smaller MacBook and going to a 2 column format and slightly smaller tiles would allow me to see 4 at once.
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Douglas Stridsberg
Unable to Stop a live deployment from the Live Projects tab. I get the modal box but nothing happens when clicking OK.
Only when I first click View Live and then press the Stop button from there am I able to turn it off.
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Douglas Stridsberg
In a live deployment, any chart I open from the right-hand menu opens in a small window (less than the full window width, i.e. the width of the default Equity chart). Is there a way to "maximize" a chart? In the old design they opened large by default.
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Clayton Berry
I've noticed everytime I bring up a Live Project. The holdings tab is the default selection at the bottom. But my holdings are never shown. I have to click on another tab like orders and then go back to holdings to see what the holdings are. Curious if others are seeing this too...
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Hugh Todd
Clayton Berry, you are not alone. I see the same thing. Holdings is the default tab but showing no holdings. Click Orders and then Holdings and the holdings appear. For the record, I'm using Firefox as my browser.
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Hugh Todd
How do we get to our projects? As of today I see the following and clicking "My Projects" has no affect. The other options work but there is no way to create or edit a project. Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks, ... using Firefox.
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Luca Napo
For me .the Search API tree just doesnt work anymore since the update. I input searches and nothing happens..
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Ian Larson
I can't delete projects. I'd like to be able to delete ones I know have buggy code, and organize them into folders etc based on the algo. I've been cloning projects to build the next iteration of an algo each time so that I have the previous code for reference in case I break what I'd been working on.
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Gkiwi
I don't think this new terminal design is ready for live use. There is no discernable improvement to me. Now, it overheats my laptop now as soon as I start the terminal and keyboard editing lag has increased. Navigating is clunky having to close the console to get to the two left hand vertical menu open/close. Where are the Market Open Times for the dashboard now which are essential , especially for crypto, given the graphs x axis time did not report time as set by helper and was different from log time? What was the benefit of this change?
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Matthew Martin
A few minor things I have noted:
1) Backtest results do not open. It seems like anything over about 500 days is the trigger for when it hangs indefinitely. If I keep QC and the terminal open for the entire backtest without the screen going blank, I can have the backtest results for tests greater than 500 days. If I log out or the computer sleeps, I cannot get the backtest results.
2) Please move active backtests to the top of the list instead of to the end. If I want to kill a backtest I have to scroll all the way to end of the page(s) in the dropdown. Also, logically, the rest of the tests are in reverse chronological order while these newest tests are at the end.
3) For multiple backtests the system performance seems significantly slower than before. My computer slows to a crawl. Since the computation is being down elsewhere, I would guess it is the graphics.
4) This is very minor, but is there any way to not make the first file in the project auto-open? If the first file is not my "main" file, it is always opened even when not needed. So it takes up tab space or I have to close it every time.
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Dan Root
Two small functionalities I would like to know about.
Python helper feature.
1. Python intellisense . (Like in C#)
2. When coding in the IDE.
3. In the IDE. Seems to work with the research environment.
Wordwrap feature
1. Wordwrap feature.
2. When coding in the IDE.
3. In the IDE. Would be nice for small screens.
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Dan Root
Also, when running multiple backtests, I have an issue pressing the next arrow through the row of backtests.
1. When running multiple backtests on the IDE dashboard in the Algorithm Lab, I am having issues cycling through the different backtests via the over button.
2. When cycling through multiple backtests.
3. IDE / Backtesting environment.
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Douglas Stridsberg
In addition to getting my additional chart as a narrow window, I now can't view it at all:
Is there a way to manually switch back to the old design until things are ironed out with the new one? I appreciate that it's good to switch things up and integrate the backtest and live views, but for those of us with real money on the line it's a little harrowing when things don't work. I'd rather be the last person to switch over to a new design than to have to worry whether my real money strategy is working as expected. I appreciate that there's a distinction between the terminal and the actual running algorithm and that it's likely the algorithm itself is running fine, but I hope you get my point regardless. We should really be given the option to opt in and out of the new design, or perhaps a limited set of users should be enrolled as beta testers before pushing such big changes live. From user feedback it seems enough things don't work for it to warrant a closed beta or opt-in approach.
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Jared Broad
shape. We remember what you have open too so it'll save your layout
preferences.
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Clayton Berry
I'll also add that we need the ability to hide the API explorer to recover screen real estate. What's also weird is that intellisense isn't mirroring the API explorer. Here's an example when looking at the Portfolio object...why doesn't intellisense match?
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