rfkFlipCharts provides fast mouse click (toolbar buttons) or keyboard (space bar +/- Ctrl/Shift) access to arbitary named groups of one or more charts, resulting in a highly flexible and easy to use chart layering facility for NT7.
Simply add the indicator to any chart that needs to participate and allocate it a ChartGroup name in the indicator Parameters dialog. Charts may have unique group names or share a name, in which case they belong to the same group.
The group name may be left blank, in which case the chart will act as a controller but not as a slave responder.
By default:
Space flips the current named group from front to back or back to front in the window order.
Ctrl-Space rolls the named group list forwards, bringing the next group to the top.
Shift-Space rolls the named group list in reverse order, ditto.
Use of keys may be turned off if required, but turning them off may give less than optimal action when window focus shifts, normally control simply passes to the top chart/group. If necessary the key(s) could be made configurable in a future release.
Optionally, group names can also be added as a space separated string into the GroupButtons field, where each should correspond to any active group name (max 8). This is only necessary in a chart where Toolbar access is desired. For example a single 'master' chart may be used to control a variety of peripheral chart combinations on secondary monitors.
It will roll/flip charts from different NT Workspaces if required, but take care if you do this to avoid unexpectedly closing a wrong workspace from the NT menu.
The picture example shown is a dumb contrived test set of charts showing a 2 chart group 'BERT', two individual charts 'FRED' and 'STAN' and an unnamed Toolbar controller chart that provides click access to the others. Indicator name and parameter strings have been left visible in charts just for illustration purposes.
My fundamental intention was to create a fast way of hiding/showing short timeframe charts underneath medium and longer term charts, so that appropriate focus can be applied only when needed. A further positive side effect is the reduction in monitor real estate required, e.g. laptop use.
This thread created for usual feedback/bug report/updates cycle as needed, looks good and works well for me but comes with absolutely no guarantees.