File menu

When the status bar panel displays red error text, you can click on the panel to execute default action for current error. For example, if you entered bad user name or password, clicking on the status bar panel will bring up the login dialog to repeat login procedure.
The user name and password are saved in the registry when you press the "OK" button in the login dialog and are automatically restored next time you start the application.
The "Sign up…" button on the login dialog is used to open the sign up page on the Cy Scanner Web-site. There you can create a new account for use in Cy Scanner Pro.

The "Reset Connection" menu item is used to reset current connection with the streaming alerts server.

The "New Alert Window" menu item is used to create a new Alert Window. There can be any number of these windows. These windows are the windows that displays streaming alerts according to their configuration parameters. See "Alert Window" section below for more information about Alert Window configuration.

The "Load Alert Window…" menu item is used to load Alert Window which has been saved to file before. When the menu item is selected, the standard Open file dialog will be displayed:

Select necessary file (the default extension for the Cy Scanner files is .TIA) and press "Open" button. The program will create a new Alert Window using configuration information from the file. This configuration information includes:

• Size, position and state of the Alert Window;
• Alert Window's font parameters;
• Alert Window's streaming alerts configuration (selected alerts types, displayed alert columns, direction of scrolling, color scheme, stocks, symbol lists etc)

The "Save Layout" menu item is used to save the current application's layout into the registry. The previously saved layout will be overwritten.
The application's layout includes:

• Size, position and state (normal, minimized, maximized) of all opened application's windows;
• State of the Main Window (compact or wide);
• Current user name and password;
• Additional information for every Alert Window:
  • Font parameters;
  • Streaming alerts configuration (selected alerts types, displayed alert columns, direction of scrolling, color scheme, stocks, symbol lists etc);
  • File name if the Alert Window had been saved to file before;
  • Current actions settings (see "Actions" section below)

The "Exit" menu item is used to exit the application. The application will save the layout automatically upon exiting. If the layout has been saved before, the application will display confirmation dialog:

If you press the "Yes" button, the application will overwrite the saved layout, and then terminate. If you press the "No" button , the application will terminate without layout saving. If you press "Cancel", the application will not terminate.

 You can open any number of Alert Windows simultaneously and configure them differently.
 All configuration parameters are accessible using Alert Window context menu, which is displayed when you right-click on the Alert Window (see the picture above).
 The context menu's items are described below.
 The "Clear" menu item is used to clear all alerts currently displayed by the Alert Window.
 The "Configure…" menu item is used to display main configuration dialog for the Alert Window:

Using different pages of this dialog, you can configure different parameters of the current Alert Window:

• Select alert types that should be displayed by the Alert Window and set their additional parameters;
• Set specific alert filters for the Alert Window;
• Select stock exchanges that will be monitored by the Alert Window;
• Select symbol lists that should be used by the Alert Window for monitoring;
• Set window name (title) for the Alert Window (the default title is "Cy Scanner Alerts")

For more information about alert types, parameters and filters please see information at http://www.Cy Scanner.com/Help.html.

Enter the file name and press the "Save" button to save the configuration. The Alert Window may be restored from the file later by using the "Load Alert Window…" menu item in the Main Window's "File" menu.
 The "Set window as default" menu item is used to set the parameters of the current Alert Window as the default configuration. All new Alert Windows created by selecting the "New Alert Window" menu item in the Main Form's "File" menu are configured using the default configuration. The default configuration is saved as the DEFAULT_WINDOW.TIA file in the default directory for saved windows.
 The "Set font…" menu item is used to set the font parameters for the current Alert Window using standard font selection dialog:

Select the desirable font parameters and press the "OK" button to apply the changes.

You can add, edit and remove the symbols using the simple text editor at the top of the dialog. The symbols should be placed one at a line.
 Pressing the "OK" button will close the editor and apply the changes to the symbol list. The program automatically will convert the symbols to the upper case, remove duplicate symbols and sort the list.
 Pressing the "Cancel" button will close the editor and reject all the changes.
 Pressing the "Load From File…" button will display the standard Open file dialog which allows you to load the symbols from the external text file (the current symbols in the editor will be overwritten).
 Pressing the "Insert From File…" button will display the standard Open file dialog which allows you to insert the symbols from the external text file (the current symbols in the editor will be saved).
 Pressing the "Save To File…" button will display the standard Save file dialog which allows you to save the symbols to the external text file.
 The "Create New List" button is used to create a new symbol list. When this button is pressed, the following dialog is displayed:

Type a name of the new symbol list  and press the "OK" button to create the new list.
 The "Rename List" button is used to rename the currently selected symbol list. This button is enabled only when exactly one symbol list is selected.
 Type the name of the new symbol list  and press the "OK" button to create the new list and populate it with the symbols from the currently selected lists. The program will automatically remove duplicate symbols.
 The edit control labeled "Symbol:" and the two buttons "Add" and "Delete" at the bottom of the Symbol Lists Window are used to add and remove symbol from the currently selected lists. Type the name of the symbol you want to add or remove and press "Add" or "Delete". The symbol will be added to or removed from all the currently selected lists. The program will automatically convert remove duplicate symbols during addition and ignore removing if the symbol is not exist in the symbol list.

ATTENTION!
This feature requires Windows NT or Windows 2000 or better. It is not supported on the Windows 95/98/Me.
The Cy Scanner Pro application may be configured so that when the new alert is received by an Alert Window or a user double-clicks on alert in the Alert Window, the alert symbol is sent as a text to the external (linked) window which belongs to other application. See "Actions" section below for more information.
The symbol also could be sent manually by using "Set Up External Linking" window. This window is displayed when you select the "External Linking…" menu item in the Main Window's "Tools" menu:

To link the external window with the Cy Scanner Pro application, drag the crosshairs into that window. If the window is valid for external linking, its name will be added to the list of linked windows at the bottom of the "Set Up External Linking" window.
 You can then use the "Set Up External Linking" window's controls to send symbols to the linked windows. Select one or more linked windows from the list using mouse with Ctrl and Shift keys.
 Type the symbol you want to send in the "Symbol:" edit and press the "Send to Selected Windows" button to send the symbol only to selected windows, or the "Send to All Windows" to send the symbol to all linked windows in the list.
 You can use the "Remove Selected Window" button to remove window from the list of linked windows.
 You can use the "Refresh Window List" button to refresh the list of linked windows.

Actions are operations performed while handling different types of events. Currently there are two types of events supported:

• "New Alert" – a new alert received by Alert Window;
• "Alert Clicked" - user clicked on the alert inside Alert Window.
• "Alert Double-Clicked" - user double-clicked on the alert inside Alert Window.

Currently the following actions are supported for handling the "New Alert" event:

• Beep – play the simple beep sound;
• Show alert window – show the alert window in the normal state (if it was minimized) and bring it to front;
•  Send to linked windows – send the alert symbol to all external linked windows (see "External Linking" section above for information about how to setup external linking)

ATTENTION! Please note, the actions for the "New Alert" event only make sense for an Alert Window that doesn't get many alerts.
Currently the following actions are supported for handling the " Alert Clicked " and " Alert Double-Clicked " events:

• Send to linked windows – send the alert symbol to all external linked windows (see "External Linking" section above for information about how to setup external linking)

There are two types of action settings -  Global actions and Alert Window actions.
The Global actions are configured using "Global Actions" button in the Main Window.  When this button is pressed, the following dialog is displayed:

Select type of action you want to perform and press the "OK" button. The default Global action – is to do nothing when the new alert received by alert window and send the symbol to the linked windows when the user double-clicks the alert.