| Build
112
May 06, 2004
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SSL |
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Fixed problem where RTList can't find the SSL dlls on
PCs with new versions of Reuter applications e.g.
Reuters 3000 Xtra.
This problem has been fixed by RTList additionally looking
for the SSL DLLs in the path stored in the following registry
key:
"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Reuters\SSL]"
"Path"=
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- Bloomberg |
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Fixed a bug in the values retrieved for the realtime fields:
HIGH, LOW, BID_SIZE and ASK_SIZE.
In older versions of RTList the intial values of these fields
would be correct but as subsequent data updates occurred the
values for these fields would be set to garbage.
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| Build
110
September 19, 2003
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-
Bloomberg |
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In Microsoft .NET, terminating a connection with Bloomberg
resulted in the application hanging. This has been fixed.
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- Bloomberg |
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Occasional access violations occur when retrieving Bloomberg
data in Windows 2000. This has was due to a thread synchronisation
problem that has been fixed.
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- Bloomberg |
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Added support for real-time VWAP.
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- Bloomberg |
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Fixed access violation caused by buffer overrun when retrieving
information about large indices.
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- Bloomberg |
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For some securities the OPEN price and VOLUME fields would not
have correct values when trading began. This has been fixed.
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- Bloomberg |
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Added support for intraday time bars.
This allows you to retrieve a bucketized version of intraday activity
by specifying the type of tick you're interested in
(either BID, ASK, or LAST), a date/time range, a bar size interval
(in minutes), and the fields you're interested in for the bar interval.
Time bar fields can be either OPEN, HIGH, LOW, LAST_PRICE.
Additionally, VOLUME can be specified for the LAST tick type.
bar data handling.
e.g. "IBM UN Equity,[LAST_PRICE,HIGH,VOLUME,OPEN] ST=09/15/2003 10:00 EN=09/17/2003 14:00 BS=5 TK=LAST"
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| Build
106
December 12, 2001
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RTList |
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When interacting via SSL 4 on a Triarch system with multiple
services, xssldsm.dll could sometimes cause an access violation
when retrieving a list of the available services. This has been fixed.
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| Build
105
October 25, 2001
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RTList |
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There was a pontential thread synchronization problem when the MostRecentOnly property
was set to true and more messages were coming from a data source than could be handled
immediately, resulting in queueing -- this has been fixed.
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| Build
104
June 13, 2001
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SSL |
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Fixed bug which was causing history requests in SSL4 to crash the RTList.
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- RT Function for Excel |
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Increased maximum instrument name from 31 to 39 characters. |
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| Build 103 September 20, 2000 |
- Bloomberg and SSL |
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Added code to set C
runtime library to locale of region. |
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- Bloomberg |
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The following real-time
fields have been added: LAST_PRICE, BEST_BID, BEST_ASK,
MID, PREV_SES_LAST_PRICE, LAST_AT_TRADE, SIZE_LAST_AT_TRADE, LAST_AT_TRADE_TDY,
SIZE_LAST_AT_TRADE_TDY, OPEN_YLD, OPEN_YLD_TDY, LOW_YLD, LOW_YLD_TDY, HIGH_YLD,
HIGH_YLD_TDY, LAST_YLD, LAST_YLD_TDY, MIDI_TDY, SIZE_LAST_TRADE_TDY, LAST2_YLD,
LAST_DIR_YLD, LAST2_DIR_YLD, PREV_SES_LAST_YLD, BID2_YLD, ASK2_YLD, BID_DIR_YLD,
ASK_DIR_YLD, SES_START, SES_END, MID2, MID_DIR, MID2_DIR, RT_PX_CHG_NET_1D,
RT_PX_CHG_PCT_1D, RT_YLD_CHG_NET_1D, RT_YLD_CHG_PCT_1D, IND_BID_FLAG, IND_ASK_FLAG,
LAST_PRICE_TDY, LAST2_PRICE |
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All fields that end in
_TDY have been changed to updating fields; previously they would only get an initial value
from the header. |
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New day rollover
behavior has been changed to make it the same as the Bloomberg DDE Server; specifically:
TIME is updated to the date of the last trade; price fields which do not end in _TDY are
not updated; price fields which do end in _TDY are reset to #N/A N/A. |
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When a new day begins,
VOLUME and VOLUME_TDY are accurate; previously, they were never reset to 0 and would show
the accumulated volume from as long as the link had been open. OPEN and OPEN_TDY are
likewise reset to the first trade of the day, which was not done previously. |
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| Build 102 August 8, 2000 |
- Bloomberg |
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Provided better support
for different versions of Bloomberg API. |
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| Build 101 March 28, 2000 |
- Bloomberg |
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Changed implementation
of static field requests (most Bloomberg fields are static apart from LAST_TRADE, BID, ASK
etc) to use bb_getdatax (in place of bb_getdata). This
results in about a 40% improvement in retrieval time. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Fixed handling of very
small prices that previously caused RTList to crash. |
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- SSL |
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Fixed several SSL4 bugs
that previously caused access violations when RTList was heavily loaded for long periods
of time. |
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| Build 99 July 16, 1999 |
- Bloomberg |
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Bloomberg released a
new version of bbapi.dll on 6/22/99. It was not compatible with previous versions and
RTList retrieved inaccurate values when multiple real-time value were requested. This has been fixed. RTList now supports all versions of bbapi.dll. |
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- Bloomberg |
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The following fields
have been modified so that they respond to a market day rollover message: OPEN, HIGH, LOW, BID_SIZE, ASK_SIZE, BID_YIELD, ASK_YIELD,
YEST_LAST_TRADE |
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- Bloomberg |
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Occasionally historical
prices were being rounded to 6 digits precision. Precision has been increased to 12
digits. |
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| Build 98 May 07, 1999 |
- SSL |
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Retrieving Reuter TS1
data simultaneously from multiple instances of RTList could result in access violations
(or worse). This problem has been fixed. TSDSNTPARSE.DLL
is a new dependency of XSSLDSM.DLL and should be distributed with RTList if Reuter TS1
data will be retrieved. |
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| Build 97 April 14, 1999 |
- RTList |
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If a timeout was
specified as an argument to the GetSnapshot method and GetSnapshot timed out, RTList would
sometimes cause an access violation a short time later. This was particularly noticeable
with Bloomberg history and intra-day requests. This
problem has been fixed. |
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| Build 95 March 17, 1999 |
- Bloomberg |
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Repeatedly retrieving
multiple fields from a Bloomberg history source sometimes caused an access violation in
RTList's ActiveX container. This bug has been fixed. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Text values for
Bloomberg fields were previously limited to 31 characters. Allocation of space is now
dynamic. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Maximum timeout for
intra-day data is now often exceeded by heavily traded securities on NASDAQ and NYSE e.g.
Dell, Amazon. Time out was 240 seconds (4 minutes) for historical and intra-day Bloomberg
retrievals. This has been increased to 600 seconds (10 minutes). |
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- Bloomberg |
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Valid fields for
Bloomberg API, depending on the security, may get non-success responses from the API and
rather than getting values back for each field RTList passes back a single #N/A Com value. This behaviour has been changed so that RTList will always return a
value for each field requested. "N/A N/A" will now be returned for valid fields
for which a non-success response is received from Bloomberg. |
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e.g. Previously:
RTList1.AddItem "695112300
Equity,<CUSIP>[NAME,LAST_TRADE]"
retrieved:
"#N/A Com"
new behaviour:
"PACIFICARE HOLDING HOLDING PFD<tab>#N/A #N/A"
Note: potential effect: previously, the request
"BIZARRO Equity,[ASK,BID]" would have returned
"#N/A Sec". It will now return "#N/A
Sec<tab>#N/A Sec". |
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Note this problem is
similar to a problem fixed in Build 82 which involved invalid fields (i.e. fields not in
the field table 'bbfields.tbl') as opposed to valid fields in this case. See Build 82
release notes for details. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Max intra-day ticks
limitation removed. Bloomberg intra-day ticks can now exceed 32768 which was RTList's
previous limit. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Dates for data received
from Bloomberg historical sources previously had format mm/dd/yy. To avoid ambiguity these
dates are now returned with format mm/dd/yyyy. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Previously, setting
"Maximum Pending Requests" in the "Define Bloomberg Source" dialog had
no effect. This has been fixed. Additionally, the
maximum value for "Maximum Pending Requests" has been increased from 32 to 100. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Previously, setting
"Send Changed Fields Only" in the "Define Bloomberg Source" dialog had
no effect. This has been fixed. |
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| Build 90 January 13, 1999 |
- DDE |
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Increased the maximum
DDE topic length from 31 to 255 characters |
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| Build 89 December 14, 1998 |
- SSL |
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Modified slightly the
way in which RTList goes about connecting to SSL. It's the same as before except that
RTList attempts to load SSL3 if it fails to load SSL4. |
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Here's the complete
procedure: Prior to connecting to Triarch, RTList will look in the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Xyris\SSL DSM\
for a DWORD value "SSL Major Version". If this value
is found and is >= 4, RTList will initially attempt to load SSL4. Otherwise it will
initially attempt to load SSL3. |
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If RTList fails to load
SSL 4 it will then attempt to load SSL3. If RTList fails to load SSL 3 it will then
attempt to load SSL4.
If RTList fails to load both versions of SSL then an error is
reported. |
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| Build 88 December 08, 1998 |
- SSL |
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Since the release of
build 84 on 10/27/98 RTList has supported connections to Triarch networks through the SSL4
API. Previously only the SSL3 API was supported. In builds 84-87 the criteria for
connecting to Triarch via SSL4 was simply the existence of the SSL4 DLLs (SSL4W32 and
SIPC32.DLL) on the PC. Only if RTList failed to locate these DLLs did RTList attempt to
communicate via SSL3.
This criteria for choosing an SSL version proved to be
unsatisfactory since developers sometimes want to control which version of SSL is used and
the existence of SSL4 DLLs doesn’t necessarily mean that a PC has been properly
configured for SSL4.
Build 88 remedies the problem by introducing a registry value
that controls which flavor of SSL is used. |
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Prior to connecting to
Triarch, RTList will look in the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Xyris\SSL DSM\
for a DWORD value "SSL Major Version". If this value
is found and is >= 4, RTList will attempt to load SSL4. Otherwise it will attempt to
load SSL3. If it fails to load SSL 4 it will roll over to SSL 3. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Retrieving intra-day
data for stocks that have been trading heavily occasionally resulted in an access
violation in RTList. This was because the Bloomberg API was passing back garbage data.
Bloomberg is aware of the bug and is working to fix it and RTList has been modified so
that it no longer crashes. |
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| Build 87 December 01, 1998 |
- Bloomberg |
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Fixed bug that resulted
in initial real-time values not being received for securities that were subscribed too
more that once (i.e. situations where more that one ItemName in the same or different
RTList instances contained the same security). |
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| Build 86 November 20, 1998 |
- SSL |
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Fixed bug in SSL4
handling of errors. SSL4 may return error information strings longer than 255 characters
(as opposed to SSL3 which has a 255 character max). This overran the buffer allocated in
RTList and usually caused catastrophic failures in the RTList application. |
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- Bloomberg |
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New field table -
bbfields.tbl 10/28/98 (updated from 07/22/98) |
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| Build 85 November 19, 1998 |
- Bloomberg |
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Prior to receiving an
initial value, ItemValue properties sometimes contained random text. This has been changed
so that ItemValues are initialized to empty strings. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Increased "Request
Timeout" interval maximum value (set via the configure source dialog) from 60 to 120
seconds. Intra-day requests for heavily traded stocks can sometimes take longer than 60
seconds. |
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- LastStatusText
property sometimes contains garbage text. This has been
fixed. |
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| Build 84 October 27, 1998 |
- SSL |
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Added fields and
enumerated types to fidtable.txt and enumtype.txt to include all fields and types from
version 2.02 of the Reuter Record Template Appendix. This includes enumerated types for
the Euro. |
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- SSL |
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Added native support for
SSL4. When connecting to an SSL source for the first time RTList tries to load the SSL4
Reuter libraries. If these libraries cannot be located, RTList then tries to load the SSL3
libraries. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Fixed bug in retrieval
of data that had been slowing retrieval dramatically. |
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- Bloomberg |
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Added capability to
specify a periodicity qualifier for history requests. |
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Syntax: ID Type,Fields
[<Index>] [ST=Start] [EN=End] [PT=MaxPoints] [PD=Periodicity] e.g.: "IBM
Equity,[last trade] Start=1/1/96 End=1/13/98 PD=M"
For IBM equity, get last trade prices for each month between
January 1st 1996 and January 13th 1998 |
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Valid periodicity values
are "D" = Daily, "W" = Weekly, "M" = Monthly, "Q"
= Quarterly, "Y" = Yearly Default: "D" Daily |
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- Bloomberg |
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The max points qualifier
for Bloomberg history requests "/P" now works. Previously it didn't. |
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Syntax: ID Type,Fields
[<Index>] [ST=Start] [EN=End] [PT=MaxPoints] [PD=Periodicity] e.g.: "IBM
Equity,[last trade] PT=1000 End=1/13/98"
For IBM equity, get last trade prices for 1000 trading days up
until January 13th, 1998 |
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| Build 83 August 31, 1998 |
- Bloomberg |
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Previously, when
GetSnapshot requests timed out they could cause an access violation (which would not show
up until later). This bug has been fixed. |
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- Bloomberg |
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New field table -
bbfields.tbl 07/22/98 (updated from 06/11/98) |
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- RTList - Delphi
example |
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Updated example from
Delphi v2.01 to v3.0. |
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- RTList - License
expiry dialog |
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Previously, when RTList
displayed a dialog indicating that either RTList's license was about to expire or had
expired the user would lose the ability to perform mouse clicks. This has been fixed. |
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| Build 82 August 24, 1998 |
- Bloomberg |
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RTList reads the field
table file 'bbfields.tbl' to determine whether a field specified in an ItemName string is
valid. If a field is not in this table, RTList fires a change event with an ItemValue of
"#Name?". This occurs even if other fields in the ItemName string are valid. This behavior has been changed. |
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An invalid field no
longer affects the entire ItemValue string. "#N/A Fid" is returned for just the
invalid field and correct values are returned for the other fields in the ItemName string. The
handling of invalid fields in now the same for both SSL and Bloomberg sources. |
