Is there anyway to keep the caption and header bar when using auto-minimize?
We are leveraging the auto-minimize in order to give the user a number of different chart slices to quickly double click to auto-minizmize and maximize. However, the chart that is the current maximized selection will show but the caption/header in the minimized group dissapears. Is there a way to have the chart caption/header to remain even when it is activated and maximized?
So if you have say 5 charts on your sheet and all auto-minimize set in the Caption tab you'll essentially have:
1 chart that is maximized at one time. In my example, it takes up 80% of the sheet.
4 other minimized charts that just display the chart title. On the lower 20 %of the screen.
However, Id like the bottom to always show all 5 chart options even though one is active/maximied at one. Otherwise, the spacing looks weird as they are spaced to fit 5 but there is always one missing in the section because it is activated.
Well, personally I think it would look weirder if 5 icons show up and 1 of them corresponds to a maximized chart. If you really want to do this though, you could (1) take a screenshot of each minimized icon, (2) save it as an image, (3) create a text box with that image as the background, (4) set the text box to layer "Bottom" and position it exactly under each "real" icon. That way, the image of the minimized icon will show up even if the chart is maximized. If you want to associate this with the chart itself though, you could do the same thing but with buttons instead of text objects. Then you can use the Minimize and Restore APIs (see API Guide for more details) to create a macro that would open or close the chart on click of the button.
But again, in my opinion I think it would be better to just leave the charts alone. I don't think a "missing" icon looks bad. You can place Line/Arrow Objects between the icons so users can more easily tell which one is missing from the array of minimized icons...
