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Can MarketDelta Be Used With Multiple Monitors?

Trevor Harnett
posted this on February 18, 2010 08:10

Yes, MarketDelta supports ‘floating windows’ which allows you to ‘float’ windows out of the application and onto other screens. 

  • Right click your chart window and choose Floating Window

     
  • Drag the new floated windows to the desired monitors

     
  • Save charts and save layout 

 

Details

The floating window option is turned on by choosing Floating Window from the right-click menu in a chart or the "+" menu of the quote page, or in the Time and Sales preferences.

 In charts and quote pages, the Floating Window menu item will appear with a check mark to denote whether the window is now floating. When you toggle the floating state of a window, you will notice that the window title bar becomes more narrow than normal. Once floating, you may resize and position the window on any monitor independently of the main MarketDelta task window. If you uncheck the Floating Window menu item, the window will automatically be centered inside the MarketDelta task window.

NOTE: It is NOT recommended to place floating windows over the main MarketDelta program window.

Layouts

Floating windows can participate in MarketDelta layouts just like normal windows and their screen positions will be properly retained when you open a layout. When you invoke the preferences for a floating window, MarketDelta will make the preferences window floating so it can float over the subject window as you adjust the preferences. Make sure you save the charts and layout once everything is configured.

Maximize/Minimize

There are no minimize/maximize controls in the title bar of a floating window, however, if you right-click on the narrow title bar of a floating window you can choose to minimize/maximize the window. When you minimize the MarketDelta task window, the task window and all MarketDelta floating windows are hidden.

 Using one of the Pin options for toolbars is recommended so that toolbars will snap to the left or top of a floating window when you activate it. This is set under Setup | Preferences | General menu. Since toolbars and floating charts are both "floating", it is possible for a chart to obscure its toolbar. Toolbars always float above non-floating windows inside the MarketDelta task windows.