Astro Gold has a multi-chart window capability via pinned Charts & Astro Sheets.
You can now pin any currently displayed wheel/dial/grid and any Astro Sheet using a Pin Button at the top right of respectively the Viewing Area or the Astro Sheets window. These pinned views (i.e. separate floating windows) can be re-sized, moved, minimized and remembered across Astro Gold sessions, until you choose to close them. An example of the Pin Button at the top right of a window is shown below (in this case in the Viewing Area), in the orange circle:
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>> To Open a New Pinned Chart or Astro Sheet Window
➢ Click on the little Pin in top right of the Viewing Area of the Main Screen, or top right on any Astro Sheet, to open a new window containing what was displayed in the Viewing Area or that Astro Sheet.
Pinned Chart/Sheet Features
1)Each Pinned Chart or Sheet is interactive in the same way as a normal chart/dial/grid and Astro Sheet view is. You can double-click to get interpretations, use a right-mouse click to bring up chart/sheet options etc. This makes it possible for multiple Pinned Charts/Sheets for the same chart, in their various windows, to have differing options such as displayed points, selected modulus orbs, star sets etc.
2)You can re-size a Pinned Chart/Sheet window by using the mouse to drag the corner of the window in towards, or out away from, the center of the window. By shrinking the size down you can arrange Pinned Charts/Sheets side by side, or one above the other etc. Or you can just overlap them - clicking on one brings it to the front.
3)If you minimize a Pinned Chart/Sheet it will be placed on the App Dock, the area always at the very bottom of the screen - see below. The window icons in the orange rectangle are all Pinned Charts/Sheets that were minimized. Click on a minimized Pinned Chart/Sheet to restore it to a window of its original size in Astro Gold.
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4)Each Pinned Chart/Sheet has a star in the top right-hand corner, just next to the Action Button. Click on it, and it will make that chart one of your saved favorites, stored for quick access in the Pinned Astro Sheets Manager (see below).
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>> To Open the Pinned Astro Sheets Manager
After you have created your first Pinned Chart or Sheet, a large Pin icon will appear on the Toolbar.
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➢ Click on the Pin icon and the "Pinned Astro Sheets Manager" will open.
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Pinned Astro Sheets Manager
Keeps two lists: all Pinned Charts/Sheets and all Charts/Sheets you marked as a Favorite.
So there are thus two tabs:
a)Recently Used - these are recently opened (and maybe still opened, or now closed) Pinned Sheets or Chart windows.
b)Favorites - these are Pinned Sheets or Chart windows you have made Favorites by clicking on the Star in a Sheet or Chart window.
"Recently Used" chart windows/sheets may also be "Favorites" of course, so some chart windows/sheets may appear in both lists - a filled in (dark) star indicates it's a favorite.
You can open any chart window or sheet regardless of which tab it is in by double-clicking on it. A check-mark (tick) next to a chart in either list indicates whether it is open or not.
➢ To open all Favorites at once click on the Favorites tab, then click on the Open All button. These sheets will then be added to the Recently Used list.
➢ In the Recently Used list, if a sheet isn't already a favorite, you can just double-click it's empty star to immediately make it a Favorite.
➢In the Recently Used list, to just clear the list of Pinned Sheets click on the Clear button.
➢In the Recently Used list, to actually close all currently opened Pinned Sheets click on the Close All button. Until cleared from the list these chart windows/sheets can all be opened again even by double-clicking on them, in subsequent Astro Gold sessions.
Suggested usage
Making a chart window or a sheet a Favorite straight away is advantageous for several reasons.
•It means it will always be on the Favorites list.
•You can open all favorites in one go in the Favorites tab using the "Open All" button, which is handy in subsequent Astro Gold sessions.
•You can remove an individual sheet/window from the Favorites list by double-clicking on its star in the list.
