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Auto Hide Charts Title Bar And Scrollbar setting

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[2018-10-17 18:35:19]
User465507 - Posts: 74
Hi,

I just found this setting. There will always be one active chart in my chartbook even though I'm not using it or needing it and thus it'll have both a title bar & scrollbar. Is there anyway to have a chart book have no active window until I click on it again? That way all windows look the same until selected.
[2018-10-17 18:50:52]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
No, this is not supported. It is not something we would do. There is already tremendous complexity with the way this works already.
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[2019-05-03 04:02:16]
User745789 - Posts: 173
The work-around for this is to set one chart in your mosaic of charts to have the title bar permanently hidden, then click back to that one chart each time you click on another chart in the mosaic (and the title bar annoyingly re-appears).

Edit: an enhanced work around:
1. open one chart, hide title bar and scrollbar, attach Associated Watchlist
2. from Associated Watchlist > Symbols Menu > Set Charts to Symbols: this will open all other charts in the same spirit as the "parent" chart... with title bar nor scroll bars permanently hidden. This makes later closing those charts a slow process.

[Might I suggest a future feature: set tittle bars to hidden for all charts in a chart book. Not just auto-hidden. They just are not needed in some display layouts. And, along with the Windows 10 huge white chart borders, I am pretty much defaulting to IBKR's TWS to display my chart mosiac. And TWS is famous for having the worst GUI in the game.]
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2019-05-03 05:25:02
[2019-05-03 21:14:35]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
The work-around for this is to set one chart in your mosaic of charts to have the title bar permanently hidden, then click back to that one chart each time you click on another chart in the mosaic (and the title bar annoyingly re-appears).
We do not see this and no other user has reported this. The title bar remains hidden even when using the option to automatically hide title bars and scrollbars.
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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2019-05-03 21:15:12
[2019-05-04 00:13:54]
User745789 - Posts: 173
Respectfully, you must be misunderstanding. In reply to the first post in this thread, you acknowledge the topic, and state that a fix is not something you would do (fair enough). Then, in reply to my post, you say you do not see the issue and neither does anyone else.

In my experience: a chartbook opens with all title bars hidden when globally set to do so. Then, in my experiments, once you click on a chart, at least one chart will always have a tittle bar showing. Clicking on other SC objects, the desktop, the app background, menus etc, doesn't cause the title bar to auto-hide again. Clicking on another chart in the mosaic just cause the tittle bar to appear on that chart. So one chart will now always have a tittle bar showing.

The charts in this chartbook were created via the associated watchlist. There are 9, arranged using "Tile as Grid". Title bars set globally to autohide.
[2019-05-04 13:16:21]
User138602 - Posts: 169
open the chart menu in the menu bar...left column at the bottom you can deselect title and scroll bars, even for active windows.
[2019-05-05 00:56:22]
User745789 - Posts: 173
Thank you :) I know that.

Every morning I might create 6-12 new charts via an associated watchlist. I would rather not then go through that menu process to disable title bars in each one.

And once I did that, closing those charts becomes a very labour intensive effort. It is faster to create a new chart book for every trading day when each trading day might focus on a different set of symbols.

Hence my post #3, the workaround.

I guess I am learning that SC is simply not user-streamlined for dynamic multi-symbol trading. This statement also crosses over into the inefficiency of opening a Trading DOM on the fly for a new symbol and having that DOM use a default layout.

It also overlaps into the Trading DOM topic, because opening charts via a watchlist will populate any open Trading DOMS with those symbols. When what the trader wants is to quickly open a portfolio of charts.

I understand that within SC architecture, a TD is a chart. But from a traders' eyeball perspective, a chart and a TD have two very different roles and we should be able to manage and control them quite distinctly. System architecture should perhaps reflect user end-needs.

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