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Date/Time: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:36:11 +0000
[User Discussion] - multi-desktop opening of Chartbooks.
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| [2025-02-12 16:44:15] |
| User408639 - Posts: 71 |
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Moin Moin. As my chartbooks are comprising about 20 to 30 charts, which do take some time to load, I wanted to ask, whether You could be restricting the CreateWindowEx- function to the desktop, on, which the open-chartbook-operation has been started. This way, another desktop can be used to work, whilst SC is loading the stuff. ChatGPT told me, how to do that.: So I am trying to share it here, using her new Canvas-function. https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/67acce2a781c819192af95baf1860285 I am aware, that this one can take some time, so close the ticket, please. _Cheers, __Michael. |
| [2025-02-16 18:30:55] |
| ForgivingComputers.com - Posts: 1042 |
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Not sure what you mean by another desktop. Do you mean another instance? Sierra Chart is moving away from Windows-related code dependencies, so I don't know if what you suggest would even be considered or if it even applies. (On a side note: Using ChatGPT to recommend code changes to something as complex as Sierra Chart is probably not advised. You are in over your head.) Most of the time it takes for a chart to open is reading the data from the SCID files on your disk and possibly downloading from the data feed. If there are a lot of studies to be calculated, that can also increase the time. You can speed up data loading with an SSD drive if you don't have one, and by loading fewer days of data on each chart. You can also open other instances, which will take advantage of multiple CPU cores. |
| [2025-02-16 20:21:24] |
| User677437 - Posts: 57 |
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Windows naturaly has a virtual desktop. You can open up sierra on desktop 1 or 2, and then move to the other virtual desktop and your screens will just show your background image. Switch back to the other virtual desktop to bring all your charts back up. Would also recommend working with Windows Power Toys Fancy Zones to map out all your charts on the screen.
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