Cloning Charts

Cloning charts is a process where you can keep in view a copy of one or more chart wheels you are interested in. Sometimes you might be in one of the many screen reports in Solar Fire and wish to see instantly see the chart wheel rather than closing the reports you are studying. By using the "Clone" feature after you open or enter a chart, you can now keep any number of copies of the chart wheel on screen for an instant reference.

This feature is particularly useful if you have more than one monitor on your computer or have a monitor that is large and has a lot of screen "real estate" to display things. Solar Fire also remembers the position and size of previous clone windows and automatically creates new clone windows in those positions with those sizes.

>> To Clone a chart for viewing

From the Main Screen:

Either...

A.Select and highlight the required chart in the list of Calculated Charts (only one highlighted chart at a time).

Then either...

•From the Chart menu select the Clone item

or...

•On the keyboard, press two keys together, Ctrl+O.

TIP: Once you've cloned a chart in this manner you keep repeatedly cloning more copies of it if you want, without having to first highlight it (as it's already highlighted).

OR...

B.Right-click on a chart on the Calculated Charts list and select Clone

Once the chart wheel appears in a separate smaller window, you can move this window to other parts of the screen or resize it by using the mouse.

>> To reposition or resize a Clone window

1.To reposition a clone window using the window title bar you can just drag the window to where you want it.

(To drag a window : hold the mouse cursor over the window's title bar, push the left mouse button down, hold it down, and then drag the window to where you want it, then release the left mouse button).

2.To resize a clone window drag on the window's borders, or the bottom right hand corner of the window, to expand or shrink it.

(To drag a window border : hover the mouse cursor over one of the borders until the cursor changes to a thin black horizontal line with a small arrowhead on each end. Push the left mouse button down, hold it down, and then drag the window border in or out to where you want it, then release the left mouse button).

(To drag a window corner : hover the mouse cursor over the bottom right corner of the window until the cursor changes to a thin black diagonal line with a small arrowhead on each end. Push the left mouse button down, hold it down, and then drag the window corner in any direction to where you want it, then release the left mouse button. Dragging the corner diagonally upwards towards the opposite corner is the quickest way to resize the window to it's smallest size).
 

>> To close the cloned chart window

•Click on the X button at the top right of the cloned chart window.

Note: at the bottom left corner of the cloned window, you will see the option "Always on top". By default, this option is ticked so that it is always in view even if other windows are opened - it always remains on top of other windows. If you click this option, to take away the tick mark, this window will be placed behind any other larger windows that you may subsequently use.