How do I display an XYChart without empty columns

[AlexHomebrew]

I an using XYChart to display the current state of a bunch of sensors, where the X-Axis is the number of seconds since the start.

The problem is there occasionally is a long period between 2 data columns (XYSeries) as in the image between 42 and 49. It can be much longer which wastes horizontal space. I would like to not display the tick marks for columns that have no XYSeries, so the chart would look like

I have looked at the Axis objects, the Tick objects, and various other objects but can't figure out how to do this.
Should I change to a ScatterPlot and connect the dots?
Thanks
Alex

[trashgod]

I try to avoid eliding data in favor of controls that let the user control focus, as suggested here, here and here. Having said that, you may also want to look at a custom Timeline, outlined here.

[AlexHomebrew]

@trashgod The pan and zoom functions are great, but I'm not really eliding data, there is no data between seconds 42 and 49. I will look at a custom TimeLine, thanks.