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Al,
> ...If you can resolve the problem to your satisfaction, please advise ...
Yes, I can. To adjust Title Bars of Inner Windows settings, click My Computer icon (in Win 95/98),
then Control Panel, then Display. In Display window choose Appearance tab. Find "Palette Title" in
"Item" menu and click on it. Proceed first with
choosing font's type and size (I've now Arial (Western) , 7 pt). Then (!) go to set Palette Title
size - mine now is 13 pt.
For this selection one of my templates with 9 charts looks like this (see enclosed GIF). I
intentionally compressed all charts but one together to show how much space these Title Bars occupy
now. With these settings I can have up to 4 charts open simultaneously - the way I used to look at
them. With the settings I've got by default (?) when installing MS 6.52 Title Bars were twice as
thick, and in no way my old templates could be used.
You can play with other bars in "Item" menu as well, but beware: these Windows settings are global
and may affect other applications.
Now I feel pretty much comfortable with MS 6.52. Cannot say anything about Tester, Explorer, since I
use my own coding for these tasks. But the charting module is great as always.
E-mail me if you'll have problems with the procedure.
Cheers, Vitaly
Al Taglavore wrote:
> Vitaly,
>
> I, too, am still using ver 5.11. The appearance and lack of chart space is
> the exact reason I sent ver 6 back to Equis. I had talked with tech
> support and they assured me there was no difference between the sizes of
> inner window bars and title bars, and that I should actually have more
> screen space for charts. At that time, I was still naive and believed tech
> support when they said I was the only one experiencing this problem. After
> 30 days and nights, I gave up and went back to ver 5.11. If you can
> resolve the problem to your satisfaction, please advise as I must now make
> a decision because of Y2K. Also, since I am no longer using the Downloader
> to retrieve my EOD data (using QP2), could I not still use ver 5.11 if I
> went with QP2 Virtual files?
>
> Al Taglavore
>
> ----------
> > From: Vitaly Larichev <vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Installation hangover
> > Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:44 PM
> >
> > Seems I am working in a self-service mode - answering my own questions
> posted earlier :-) .
> >
> > Lately, after installing MS 6.52 I've got too large fonts in Data Window
> and Title Bars of Inner
> > Windows, and too thick Title Bars themselves. This was the problem I
> struggled with last few days.
> >
> > Since I've got no response to my question, it's quite probable that all
> other listers don't experience
> > these troubles or don't care, and this post with answers might be just a
> nuisance for many of you.
> > Well ... having finished with apologies, let me explain how you can
> change settings to fix this stuff,
> > or adjust if you wish.
> >
> > To change fonts and the thickness of Title Bars, go to Control
> Panel/Display icon, choose Appearance
> > tab. Then click on "Palette Title" in "Item" menu. There choose Palette
> Title's size, font's type and
> > size. Mind different fonts has different smallest sizes which in turn
> determines smallest Bars'
> > thickness available. As for the font size in Data Window, I cannot
> pinpoint how I managed to make it
> > smaller. Perhaps, my monkeying with all those settings gave MS 6.52 a
> shake it needed to set the font
> > size right. Otherwise, cannot explain why with the same Control Panel
> settings MS 5.11 and 6.52 looked
> > different.
> >
> > Cheers, Vitaly
> >
> >
> >
> > Vitaly Larichev wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > Just installed MS 6.52 in the place of warm, fuzzy 5.11 <g>. It's fine.
> One thing I cannot figure
> > > out is how to change font size in Data Window. It's too large now, so
> that some values are cut off
> > > from the front: Volume for AT&T may read 3,567,000 instead of
> 13,567,000. Also it makes me scroll
> > > down too far if a chart is crowded with indicators.
> > >
> > > Another big problem is again too large font size in Title Bars of Inner
> Windows. It seems as if it
> > > also makes the bars so thick that they take out a good portion of
> screen real estate for a layout
> > > with 9 inner windows.
> > >
> > > Somehow in 5.11 I had all this small enough to like it.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any advice.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Vitaly.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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