I am not sure if this functionality is already there, but I can't seem to find it.

It would be great if you could split the code editor into two horizontal panes that scroll independently. This way you can be displaying a declarations section of the code and at the same time displaying the trading loop section. Most code editors have this functionality and I thought it would be a helpful idea for some future release that shouldn't be too hard to implement.

I know that the workaround is to open two windows of the same file and accomplish the same, but it's really not the same. Opening two windows means that you must only keep modifying one and the other one should be kept read only. If you mess up that order and modify both pieces of code and save you are in for a lot of trouble.

Thanks.

There is no such functionality, as well as no plans to implement it. However, as splitting the screen has been available for ages in Visual Studio's IDE, the workaround is to develop your Strategies in that IDE (or SharpDevelop). For those who don't know, both IDEs either come with a free version or are free per se. Not to mention the full-fledged debugging capabilities. This might even be a pretty natural step, if your code has grown large enough.

The Wealth-Lab's built-in editor is powered by QWhale's Editor.NET component, and the horizontal (and vertical) split feature is present in its actual revision. When Fidelity decides to move Wealth-Lab to .NET 4.0 framework, it will take upgrading Editor.NET from its current v1.51 to v1.62 (or higher) anyway, to support C# 4.0 syntax. If you create a new ticket with your idea, maybe we can convince the developers to expose the requested split feature.

Thanks Eugene.

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