Commodities initialization list

Herbert Thoma herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de
Tue Aug 11 10:30:00 EDT 2015


Am 11.08.2015 um 16:18 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> Phil Longstaff <phil.longstaff at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I recently found the need to add a new stock which is traded on the TSX
>> (Toronto Stock Exchange). Why do we hard-code commodity sources? I don't
>> want to have to recompile to use a new exchange.
> You don't.. It's a user-defined field with a set of pre-defined initial
> entries.  But it's a*free-form user-enterable text field*.  So just add
> "TSX" in the field to create a new namespace.

Argh, please ignore my previous mail. I just looked for something like "new commodity source".
It did not occur to me to just enter a new string to the drop-down list ...

  Herbert.

>> Phil
> -derek



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