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I tested the new 8 beta 5 briefly. First impressions are very good, thanks for the good work. There are a few areas that may need improvement.
1. Opening the online help from an NT window and then closing the browser (in my case a firefox fork) afterwards leaves residues of the browser on the NT windows. They remain until a real interaction (not just a mouse over or click) with the NT window. It is probably not the fault of the browser, since it does not happen with other apps.
2. It would be nice to have the option to require password to log on to live accounts. It can be very dangerous to have someone log into a live account, even if it is just a curious child mucking about on the computer.
3. NT7 had the option to hide the chart toolbar. NT8 help says it is possible here too, but I could not find a way to do it. Bug? It would be nice to have customizable toolbars/menus, like some other apps have, e.g. firefox.
4. Can we get back the show/hide chart trader button just like in NT7? Chart trader button (Buy, Sell, etc) dimensions and their distances are better in NT7. I almost clicked the wrong button in NT8, not something I would want to do in live trading. Could the button sizes, distances be made customizable? It would be nice to have the option to customize what buttons are shown? Eg. hide Market order buttons if one does not intend to use market orders.
5. The new user interface design is nice, and I like that it is customizable. Is there a doc of what is what in the XAML file? Please provide a tutorial/reference. I am mainly interested in reducing the window frames, changing the menu font to not bold (harder for me to read then normal font, tab size (make them smaller, so they take up less space. Item 3 above is related, as I want to keep the interface as simple as possible, I want to have only the important and frequently used things on when trading.
6. I would like to have the Custom/System colors back in the color pickers (chart background, indicator colors, etc).
7. Instrument picker is sometimes very slow, takes a few seconds to show up. It would be nice to have more flexibility with it, like displaying only the instruments, instrument lists I want to use. Currently I could not remove unwanted lists. I accidentally entered a symbol with a typo, and it stayed on the picker list. I could pin it and unpin it, but could not remove it.
Some of these suggestions may already be available, I just could not find a way to do it (help is not finished yet). If so, let me know how to do it, otherwise please take them into consideration and implement as appropriate, or feasible.
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