If you're already almost there with the mouse-drag solution, there's really no point taking another route.

But just to explain the idea, look at how NinjaTrader deals with multi-timeframe charts like the one below (it'll be even more obvious if you overlay say 15min on 60 min, or 60 min on 1 day, etc). There seems to be some kind of pro-rating going on, with NT distributing the space available on the X-axis by approximating date/time values.

But in all cases, the latest candle in terms of timestap is what would print on the far right.

The idea is to create a fictitious candle, forwarded in time with say 15 minutes, or maybe given a fixed date "tomorrow". I'm hoping that fictitious candle will remain THE right most candle, while the ticks bars play catch-up. If THEIR dates are always earlier than that fictitious candle, they should paint farther to the left of it, i.e. somewhere in the middle of the chart window.

And just when the ticks candles are about to catch up with that "tomorrow" candle, we reset its date so that again it distances itself from the ticks bars, forcing NT to recalculate and pro-rate their positions since their timestamps are behind the tomorrow candle. As the ticks bars try to play catch-up again, they should paint somewhere in the middle. The chart is refreshed only once every so often, when we create a new date for the "tomorrow" candle.

So basically the idea is to make the ticks bars play catch-up to a tomorrow that never comes. It might work if you're looking for an all-Ninjascript approach.

THE MOUSE THING IS BY NO MEANS WITHOUT ITS WEAKNESSES. I plan to really study
your proposal, and I had some similar ideas earlier. Another approach, with similar
weaknesses, is to SEND MOUSEWHEEL events to scroll a chart left.

DO YOU HAVE TIME or inclination to provide some code for this idea of yours; which could
very well be the best available solution?.... I REALLY APPRECIATE your idea; and I am
not yet sure which way I'll try to go to implement this behavior.

[edit] I'd like to run on a 1 second interval chart; or on a Tick Chart with only a few
Ticks per bar; so it should work on those timescales during an active market. I had
been thinking of having a "future" bar on the same timescale as the Chart, but in
the Indicator's Plot series; but I'm not sure that would work, though have not
seriously investigated it.

Thanks again,
hyperscalper

Unfortunately I don't. I'd look up something like the Mirrored Bars add-on from the NinjaTrader website and start from there.

To backtrack a little, have you tried TeamViewer for your remote access instead of RDP? TV is free for personal use and does a helluva job of preventing lag, even with a bunch of charts and indicators running on the remote machine.

When I asked on the NT forum for a sample of sending a simulated keyboard event, I was recommended THIS indicator for a study case. I havent' dug into hard yet, but may give an idea of how to do this?