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Post From: Status bar chart values missing in Sierra Chart 1272 -- please help

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User35525 - Posts: 180
Some disadvantages of the compact tool values (CTV) window: 1) needs setup for every chart. 2) takes extra screen real estate. 3) your mouse must click chart region "0" first, but my chart region 0 is tiny compared to real estate for the other chart regions. 4) the CTV window disappears once you click-away from the chart. 5) the CTV window changes size all the time, depending-upon what region your mouse is over, which hugely affects those using multiple chart regions. 6) the CTV window is in a non-stationary spot. So, depending-upon the chart, I have to move my eyes somewhere new just to see OHLCVBA which used to be in the status bar. I appreciate that version 1272 has it "docked" to the chart so moves when I move the chart, but still, it's in a different place for each chart, and nothing will make that less annoying. Some disadvantages for an on-chart display of OHLCVBA: 1) takes extra screen real estate. 2) you'd have to move your eyes to a new location, relative to the chart, for every chart, to know the OHLCVBA info. 3) the text on charts -- white font, black background, small size -- are much harder to see than the menu bar text was in the legacy "status bar". Some disadvantages for a control bar docked next to every chart, to display OHLCVBA: 1) takes extra screen real estate. 2) you'd have to move your eyes someplace new for each chart. There is a real advantage to using the concept of "global" navigational space -- the tool/menu bars locale in SC -- which is a stationary locale for information presentation. Any other solution forces one to move your eyes to new areas when moving from chart to chart, or chartbook to chartbook. Things were perfect before. I never complained about anything else, but this isn't good at all now. OHLCVBA is the most important information you can display, and it needs to be in the stationary, menu/toolbar area. It must have been a big decision when somebody added the global status bar, and thought of what to put in it. To me then, removing it should be an equally big decision. It changes everything. Before these latest updates, SC was "pleasant enough" to use, but now it feels like vertigo, GUI-wise. Everything else aside, it's the best-engineered retail product available, and nearly perfect enough for what anybody could ever wish for. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-07-20 00:01:27