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Date/Time: Sat, 03 May 2025 15:39:49 +0000
[User Discussion] - Horizontal scrolling increment cuts off large number of bars
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| [2025-01-26 16:45:20] |
| warpigs - Posts: 42 |
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I’ve attached a video showing what I mean. If I zoom in or out by left click and drag on the horizontal scroll bar or use up/down arrow keys, the smallest increment that I can zoom in or out cuts off like 20 bars or more at a time. How can this be fixed? I want to zoom in/out smoothly one bar at a time. As it is, it makes the visible volume profile not usable because I can’t zoom in or out on the chart with any accuracy. I have already read the documentation on scaling and zooming but I am not seeing anything that is able to resolve this.
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-01-26 18:09:26
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| [2025-01-26 19:23:47] |
| warpigs - Posts: 42 |
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Hoping someone can chime in, this is extremely annoying and preventing me from zooming in/out on the chart with any precision.
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| [2025-01-27 17:43:52] |
| User431178 - Posts: 658 |
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I want to zoom in/out smoothly one bar at a time.
You can't. When you zoom in/out, you change the bar spacing (in pixels), so any change is multiplied by the number of bars on the screen. Working With Charts: Zooming In and Out Working With Charts: Changing Bar Spacing From the second link: When changing the bar spacing in a chart, you are actually changing the number of pixels between all of the bars. There must be a consistent amount of spacing between bars. When there are a large number of bars currently displayed in the chart, and you increase or decrease the spacing between the chart bars, this will cause a significant change to the number of bars displayed. It is inherently impossible, to change the bar spacing in such a way to add or remove single or a small amount of chart bars, when there is already a large amount of bars displayed.
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| [2025-01-27 18:11:51] |
| warpigs - Posts: 42 |
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Thanks, I did read through the documentation. I’m not understanding though. So it’s not possible to get a specific range of bars on a chart to display on screen?? That would make the visible range profile basically unusable with any accuracy or precision… that seems like a crazy oversight that I have not encountered in any other software. Is there not a fix or workaround?
Date Time Of Last Edit: 2025-01-27 18:12:47
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| [2025-01-27 18:28:11] |
| User431178 - Posts: 658 |
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Is there not a fix or workaround?
No, that is how it is. The quoted text in the previous post expains how the bar spacing works. There is not any finer level of granularity. So it’s not possible to get a specific range of bars on a chart to display on screen??
Yes, if the number of bars you want divides neatly in to the screen space.If at the end of the chart you could increase the blank fill space until the required number of bars is displayed. |
| [2025-01-27 18:53:33] |
| warpigs - Posts: 42 |
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Thanks, I appreciate the explanation. I’m honestly really shocked by this. I’m looking at moving to SC for its reputation as offering a high level of precision and customization. This really just seems crazy to me, it seems like a thing that no piece of software, let alone charting software, should not be able to do.
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