Can EA detect if other EAs are running? What about Uptime of terminal?

[Jon Grah]

Can EA detect if other EAs are running in other charts of the same terminal? And can there be a list provided of the name of the EA?

Is there a method to detect the uptime of the terminal (amount of days:hours:min:sec the terminal has run since the process is running)?

[Tjipke de Vries]

4evermaat:

Can EA detect if other EAs are running in other charts of the same terminal? And can there be a list provided of the name of the EA?

Is there a method to detect the uptime of the terminal (amount of days:hours:min:sec the terminal has run since the process is running)?

if there is a open trade with magicnumber > 0 and it is not a magicnumber of the EA attached to the chart then the EA can detect the other EA trading

If you wanna have a list then you have to do something like I did in the indicators I made and published see https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10387

The last question yours I don't know what you exactly mean.....

but there is always a method to calculate a time but what is the time you wanna know ???

[Jon Grah]

deVries:

if there is a open trade with magicnumber > 0 and it is not a magicnumber of the EA attached to the chart then the EA can detect the other EA trading

If you wanna have a list then you have to do something like I did in the indicators I made and published see https://www.mql5.com/en/code/10387

The last question yours I don't know what you exactly mean.....

but there is always a method to calculate a time but what is the time you wanna know ???

- uptime of the terminal (start time and/or total time that the terminal process has been running)

- uptime of EA (total time EA has been running since applied to chart; would reset if EA settings are changed or terminal is restarted)

[William Roeder]

4evermaat:

- uptime of the terminal (start time and/or total time that the terminal process has been running)

- uptime of EA (total time EA has been running since applied to chart; would reset if EA settings are changed or terminal is restarted)

1. Nothing happens until a EA is placed on a chart, so I don't think so.

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2. datetime time.on.load=0;
   int init(){
      // if (time.on.load == 0) // Don't reset on chart changes etc.
         time.on.load = TimeCurrent();  // Reset on chart changes, EA settings, etc.
      :
   }
   int start(){
      datetime now = TimeCurrent();
      int      duration = now - time.on.load,
               seconds  = duration          % 60,
               minutes  = duration /     60 % 60,
               hours    = duration /   3600 % 24,
               days     = duration / 86400;
      Comment(WindowExpertName()+" up ",days, "-", RJust(hours,2), ":", RJust(minutes,2), ":", RJust(seconds,2));
      :
   }
   string  RJust(string s, int size, string fill="0"){
       while( StringLen(s) < size )    s = fill + s;       return(s);             }

   
   

[erzo]

4evermaat:

- uptime of the terminal (start time and/or total time that the terminal process has been running)

You can get Process creation time by Windows Api, here is my test script about it: