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Is it possible to copy and paste a Button indicator from one chart to another?
   

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Buttons do not lend themselves to the drag and drop feature that can be used to copy indicators easily from one chart to another. This is because clicking on a button does not "select" the button like a click on an indicator. For menu buttons, a click will popup a menu, while a click of a non-menu button will execute the buttons purpose.

To address the need to quickly copy a button from one chart to another our next release will feature a button copy/paste facility. When you "right-click" on a button, a new menu item "Copy this Button" will be present in the popup menu. When you choose "Copy...", the button's setup will be noted by IRT. You can then go to another chart window, right-click in a pane and choose "Add Button". "Add Button" is one of the existing choices in the chart popup menu. Normally, the Add Button command is used to add a new technical indicator preset button to a chart. First you pick the indicator by clicking on it to select it, then you choose Add Button, to make a button for toggling that indicator on/off in the chart.

The enhanced Add Button will work a little differently. If NO indicator is selected in the subject chart, IRT will determine if there is a button setup that has been copied earlier, and if so, it will add a copy of that button to the chart. When no indicator is selected and no button has been copied, IRT will prompt you with a selection list of indicators in the chart as it did before. This enhancement will make it easy to copy/paste individual buttons from one chart into other chart(s) quickly. You can even use this new facility to move buttons from one pane to another in a chart. First you copy the button, then delete it from its original pane location (right-click on it and choose Delete...), then right-click in a different pane and choose Add Button to add it there.