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Added topic Need to report a bug with synthetic chart generation - missing candle wicks on M1
Can anyone please tell me the correct place to make a bug report for the issue below? Since the last update, 99% of M1 bars which are calculated for synthetic charts using history bars (ie bars that are not being calculated on the fly whilst the
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Added topic Using Win32 CreatePopupMenu to display a custom context menu
Can anyone who knows a bit more than me about the ins and outs of Win32, and what is/isn't supported within the confines of MT5, please give me any clue as to why the following code isn't working? Call to AppendMenuW returns success, but call to
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Added topic Function Pointers - added in a recent build?
I could have sworn I saw in the notes from a recent release that function pointers had been added to the language, and now I can't find it anywhere. I didn't imagine this, did I? ‌‌Thanks
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Added topic MT5 Installer Issue
Hey, I appreciate this is slightly off-topic for a MQL5 forum, but I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I've tried download the MT5 installer from a couple of brokers, and direct from the MetaTrader site itself, but the installer will
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Added topic Feature Requests
Is there an official way to make feature requests, where they are likely to be noticed by a member of the dev team? Thanks 
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Added topic Get the currently active profile name
I've been Googling for a while, but can't turn anything up. Is there a way to retrieve the currently active profile name in code? lastprofile.ini contains, unsurprisingly, the last profile name, not the current one. Thanks
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Added topic MT4 Memory Use and Indicators
I've got 5 charts open, 200000 bars in chart. struct MqlRates   {    datetime time;         // Period start time    double   
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Added topic Access time series data via MT4 TCP bridge in C#
I gather from the wealth of C# APIs out there that it is possible to connect to MT4 over TCP and perform various functions . The C# APIs I've found online are massively overkill for what I need - but presumably the people who made these API had some
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Added topic 32-bit Bitmaps with Transparency
This is just some information, rather than a question, but I thought I'd share it since I've been wondering how to do this for some time. The standard BITMAP and BITMAP_LABEL objects allow us to load bitmap images on to the chart, but do not support
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Added topic Where are runtime errors shown when backtesting an EA?
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I am having runtime errors when backtesting an EA, and no error message is showing up in the Experts tab - it's a bit needle in a haystack without even a line number where the error occurred to go off
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Added topic Indis compiled against build 890 throwing bizarre errors
I've got a bunch of indis I wrote, not recompiled since my MT4 auto updated to 890, all working fine. I needed to make some minor changes today, and recompiled against 890, and suddenly strange things are happening. For one, an ArrayResize statement
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Added topic Offline chart won't update unless open
I'm using some code in an indicator to generate synthetic instruments for currency indexes, and storing the results in an offline chart. Once per minute, the code syncs data and writes new bars to the offline charts. The indicator then references the
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Added topic MT4 repeatedly crashing with large chart history
Hey guys - before I go into the issue, is this the correct place to ask about MT4 issues? Or if not, could someone please tell me the best place?  Many thanks