I GOT THE BEST IDEA FOR MT4 STRATEGY TESTER. This should be EZ addition.

 

I believe MT4 Strategy Tester needs to give us options.

MT4 Tester should NOT generalize and turn off features completely for speed-sake.

Instead, MT4 should allow us to choose which feature(s) we want to turn off ourselve.

You know file-reading, playsound, etc...

What do you think????? Hm???

 
File- reading/writing is possible in tester. files saves in /tester/files.
 
enotrek:
File- reading/writing is possible in tester. files saves in /tester/files.

...And if you really want to play sounds during backtesting, you can use the Win32 API. For example:

#import "winmm.dll"
   int PlaySoundA(string Filename, int Ignore, int Flags);
#import


int start()
{
   ...
   PlaySoundA(TerminalPath() + "\\sounds\\email.wav", 0, 1);   // The parameter 1 is SND_ASYNC - don't wait for the sound to finish before continuing EA execution
   ...
}
 

Let's not argue for argument sake.
My examples, I know are not the best.
However, the theme or main idea here is to have user choice on features that are turned off during testing.