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Date/Time: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:44:34 +0000
Post From: Notice: Solution to: Chart/Book Tabs Visibility Issues, Portions of Chart Window Cut Off
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| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 21855 |
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Based on some postings, one thing that seems to be the case is that users are not aware that title bars for MDI windows, the windows within the main Sierra Chart window, are fully customizable by you. Far beyond, what any operating system offers. These are all of the related settings: Graphics Settings: Fonts and Text Appearance (The font displayed in the title bar is fully configurable, and based on it whether it is active or inactive) Graphics Settings: Window Title Bar General Settings Window: Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and Custom Title Bar Settings (Global Settings >> General Settings >> GUI) The window border color is still not yet implemented by us. A lot of additional work has been done, and issues resolved and we will have a new release out this evening. The virtual space functionality is also fully done and works very well. This lets you enlarge, the area used by the MDI Windows, up to 10 times and you can scroll around. The final changes are not yet released. We also figured out, how to support outline moving of child windows to avoid the various graphics issues. And we are also adding options to control redraw behavior, to eliminate that effect but it will increase CPU usage but that will not be necessary with the outline moving of child windows. We do not recommend to be using these prerelease versions, if you are just going to put out complaints. That is not helpful to us, and is completely meaningless to us anyway. There are serious and real and unacceptable issues, that we are resolving with these changes that we describe in the first post. These complaints, from users are like some users wanting the old dialog windows back (For example the Chart Settings window). Those all dialogs are absolute utter trash in so many ways. Complete trash from Microsoft and we have replaced, years ago, the Chart Settings window with the new format, and other windows, and they are absolutely superior. And at this point no one can argue against them. There is not any valid arguments whatsoever. And there are incremental improvements, being made, and actually released but not yet documented, with the Drawing Tool Configuration/Drawing Properties windows. For example, the 8 Quick configuration buttons can be enabled: Global Settings >> Tool Settings >> General >> Show Quick Configuration Load Buttons as Permanent Buttons: Yes Documentation for the new Settings Windows: Settings Windows Interface: New Chart Settings Window If we were to bring back the old Chart Settings window dialog, the complaints are going to be, that it is absolutely terrible and going backwards and we are certain that is exactly the commentary that it is going to be given. We will be told, we are going backwards and is like an Atari game, this is like the days of DOS, this is like the 80s or the 90s. Completely silly and meaningless comments like this. This all comes across as a complete joke to us. And we remember, when we removed, this piece of trash Microsoft Status Bar integrated with the main window and people complaining about that. We replaced it with the Compact Tool Values Window which is absolutely superior. There are some things that we are doing, which are necessary and are right and we know for a fact that they will over time be properly accepted by users. And that there is no valid complaint here whatsoever. None. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-12-05 17:51:33
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