Starting multiple Workspaces programmatically

Author: gchudublin

Creation Date: 2/1/2019 3:25 PM

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gchudublin

2/1/2019 3:25 PM

I am using a 3rd party scanner to pick up stocks. When I get alerted I want each run has its own work space, so I can see them from different windows, any way can use program to do this, my symbol trigger with stop loss and profit target and strategy to is stored in a local SQL database. May be use AutoIt script? Can I have a desktop app to call AutoIt scripts to open a new workspace and have symbol, strategy predefined? I checked the workspace file .ws and it is just a text file, so I can just use a program to create it and call AutoIt to open it and it just runs.

Eugene

2/1/2019 4:22 PM

I like your line of thinking. In the absence of a programmatic way to launch a new Workspace, AutoIT should get the job done. Workspace files indeed are plain text but since its format isn't documented you cannot count on our guidance. Any bugs, crashes or questions are entirely up to you.

Pablo4646

6/24/2020 9:02 PM

Hi all!
I spent 3 hours looking for a function that opens the Workspace, but I didn't. I had to use this trick for open List of several WS files. Best regards.

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Hi all!
I spent 3 hours looking for a function that opens the Workspace, but I didn't. I had to use this trick for open List of several WS files. Best regards.

[code]using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using WealthLab;
using WealthLabPro;

namespace GraphAggregate
{
    
    public class MultyWorkspaceMenuItem : MenuItemHook
    {

public MultyWorkspaceMenuItem()
            : base()
        {         
        }

public override void AddMenuItems(IMenuItemAdder adder)
        {
           
            adder.AddMenuItem("Open Workspace List ...", "W&orkspaces", "&Open Workspace ...",
                new ClickMenuItem(MenuItemOnClick), null);   
        }

/// <summary>
        /// Menu item click handler
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void MenuItemOnClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string Path = Application.UserAppDataPath + System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + "Workspaces";

OpenFileDialog fm = new OpenFileDialog();
            fm.DefaultExt = "ws";
            fm.Multiselect = true;
            fm.InitialDirectory = Path;
           
            DialogResult dr = fm.ShowDialog();

if ((dr == DialogResult.OK || dr == DialogResult.Yes) & fm.FileNames.Length >0)
            {

foreach(string str in fm.FileNames)
               {
                   MainForm mainFormNext = new MainForm();

mainFormNext.Show();
                   FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(str);
                   string name = fi.Name.Replace(fi.Extension, "");
                   mainFormNext.AddWorkspaceMenuItem(name);
                   mainFormNext.Text = name;
                  
                   ToolStripItem[] mis = mainFormNext.MainMenuStrip.Items.Find("mniWorkspaces", true);
                   ToolStripDropDownItem mi = mis[0] as ToolStripDropDownItem;

ToolStripItem mi2 = mi.DropDown.Items[mi.DropDown.Items.Count - 1];

mi2.PerformClick();

}
            
            
            }

}
    }
 
}

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