Order function question

[aspTrader]

This may be a stupid question but I'd like to confirm something.

As I understand it, the length of the Order string returned from the Orders function should remain the same unless some new order has been placed via the ATI.

To ensure efficiency, my plan is to do a check of the current Order string length against the previous length. If it's the same, then no need to do anything right? If there is a change, then, then my code needs to call the OrderStatus function for each OrderID within the Order string.

Any reason not to implement as described above?

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Your logic would seem correct.

Ray

[aspTrader]

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It's getting down to the nits for me in working through my custom developed interface from NeoTicker to Ninja Trader.

I'm having a problem with the Orders( account ) function. It's not working for me and I can't see that it's my problem. Every other NJ function I've used works fine but not the Orders function.

I've been trying to think of the best way to get this to you. My code is written in Delphi. I will email you the function I'm having trouble with in calling the Orders function.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

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Dierk is travelling today and will return from vacation tomorrow.

[aspTrader]

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Got my call to the Orders function to work. Had to do with the way that Delphi works with strings with DLLs.

Dierk:

Could you look over the post that initiated this thread?

The question there was this: To reduce needless parsing of the string returned by the Orders function am I safe in assuming that if that string length has not changed that there is no need to parse it again?

Thanks for all your recent help!

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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Hmmm .. could be.

However, simple string comparision would do the job as well. In any programming language I know off calculating the string length is not significantly more efficient than doing a string comparison (at least not noticible).