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Searching Sierra Chart Settings and Commands with Intellisense like Visual Studio Code

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[2019-08-10 19:59:20]
User676363 - Posts: 59
Dear Sierra Chart Support (and community),

As a person pretty new to Sierra Chart, I have found it challenging to easily manipulate, customize, and synchronize between two computers.
I have seen features that make discovery easier and I wonder if you and your user community would be motivated to consider these ideas in the future roadmap.

Settings: All settings are organized in a single file in clear text, but with a beautiful, searchable user interface.
Commands: Universal Keybindings and Commands available with hotkeys.
IntelliSense: When trying to create a drawing on the chart, or when finding a drawing tool to add to a menu, I would like to search by keyword and get a list that is reduced. The current dialogs in Sierra force me to scroll and read, which is time consuming.

Consider Visual Studio Code Examples
Settings: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings
Keybindings: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings
Commands: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_command-palette
Properties: Anytime a properties window has multiple choices, they would be built using https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense

Command Line
A full command-line console for Sierra Chart is what I am imagining. No need to disrupt the current users by trying to re-do the menu system. I would like to have a floating hotkey popup search exactly like Visual Studio Code provides.

Examples
Rather than trying to determine if a setting is in panel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Global Settings Chart or in Chart, I would type on the command line what I want to do and Sierra Chart would do it. Rather than trying to find a menu item, I could start typing fib and be offered a way to add a fibonacci retracement to my chart or configure the toolbar or shortcut menus, etc. Thus giving me direct access to the commands without coming to the website and searching the documentation and forum, would be really nice.

For an example, take a look at the "Customize Chart Shortcut Menu" https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kwh1Zlk=/?moveToWidget=3074457346791163080. This is a monster and if it was designed with Intellisense as a hierarchy with a search panel, it would be Godlike and remove a huge barrier to entry for the platform, in my opinion.

Another thing that might be really pleasant is to have the ability to leave open property windows pertaining to commonly used items and to dock them or detach them for another monitor. Having quicker access to drawing tools and trade tools without needing to close one property window and open another property window would be nice. If the property window was floating and attached to an object, it can do no harm to leave it open rather than forcing the user to close it before opening another one that is for something else.

Really appreciate the rock solid platform. As I am just wondering if there would be a way to setup a universal command/settings center similar to Visual Studio Code. Having a single file with all the settings would make it very easy to share and customize settings and to have no confusion with which files must be copied between computers when duplicating the environment.

With that, I am happy to provide more details, but I wanted to just ask in the spirit of a newer user how best to quickly get the platform working and keeping it well tuned as needs change and I adapt to using it. Even if we were to start with a simple search that would move the user to the right menu based on an index of all the commands/properties/dialogs, it would be really helpful.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Jason
[2020-01-14 01:37:31]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
Another thing that might be really pleasant is to have the ability to leave open property windows pertaining to commonly used items and to dock them or detach them for another monitor. Having quicker access to drawing tools and trade tools without needing to close one property window and open another property window would be nice. If the property window was floating and attached to an object, it can do no harm to leave it open rather than forcing the user to close it before opening another one that is for something else.

Something like this is coming with the redevelopment of all of the dialog windows in Sierra Chart. This will gradually be coming in the coming months.


Really appreciate the rock solid platform. As I am just wondering if there would be a way to setup a universal command/settings center similar to Visual Studio Code. Having a single file with all the settings would make it very easy to share and customize settings and to have no confusion with which files must be copied between computers when duplicating the environment.
Thank you for the comment. As far as what files contain what, refer to help topic 15:
Transferring Sierra Chart Settings and Data From Existing Installation to New Installation: Transferring Sierra Chart Settings and Data From Existing Installation to New Installation
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

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https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation

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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2020-01-18 07:54:08
[2022-03-19 07:52:57]
User676363 - Posts: 59
Just coming back to this again... I know I've seen some dialogs change and we can now edit some text fields directly from the Manage Drawings window, which is great but I want to go a lot further with text...
1. Search Everywhere for everything Chart Annotations and SierraChart Functions
2. Export to PDF
Examples below (especially the attached image example from Google)

I would like the cmd+k in tradingview.com, descript.com, visual studio, or Google's Free IDE: https://ide.cloud.google.com/ (shift+cmd+P)
See image attached.


Idea would be that if I just start typing I will get an instant list of SierraChart functions as well as charts that have the annotations I made that match the text I am entering or chart labels, etc. Everybody has probably seen on a Mac (OSx) how you can search using fields kind: name: date: even tags: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/files-folders-tags-macos/

If I want to search for all my Extended Rectangles or Risk Reward objects, I can.
If I want to search for a specific support or resistance line, I can type some of the text.
If I want to change the color of anything...
All of these should be contextual and found in the cmd+k hierarchy.

I would also like to be able to export the drawings as PDF or SVG so that they remain searchable when I put them into my DEVONthink database journal so they can be attached to the analysis being created.
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[2022-04-10 10:35:12]
User676363 - Posts: 59
I would think PDF exports of charts would be a common request.
The symbols are often in the image file name, but it would be nice if the text in the chart title would be found by a text search in a directory PDF charts.

And having all comments on the chart searchable can be invaluable.

For now, we can't search in the platform.

And we can't search in the images.

And if we zoom on candles and lines and text in an image, it doesn't look very nice because they are bitmaps.

Would be great to know if this is just how everybody likes it or if it's a technical reason that no trading platforms support the ability to print vector graphics of their entire chart and include text in the PDF.

I'd like to see SierraChart consider it because most traders spend time creating charts and having a higher quality export of the chart seems to fit really well with the entire branding of SierraChart.

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