Help with the below please

[Niko]

Hi,

Could anyone help me with the below indicator,

It creates an alert only once and I need it to keep repeating the alert (when it rings once and I'm moving about my house I miss the alert, if it could ring like 20 times or in any other way possible?).

After the alert I usually either immediately re-enter or wait a certain period of time before re-entering.

So I guess ideally If I could set the number of times it alerts to an X amount (eg: 20 times, or more)?

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                              AlertCloseOrder.mq4 |
//|                               Copyright © 2010, Vladimir Hlystov |
//|                                         http://cmillion.narod.ru |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "Copyright © 2010, Vladimir Hlystov"
#property link      "http://cmillion.narod.ru"
#property indicator_chart_window
int Orders;
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
  {
   if (Orders>OrdersTotal()) AlertOrder();
   Orders=OrdersTotal();
   return(0);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void AlertOrder()
{
   string txt;
   double OCP;
   int i=OrdersHistoryTotal()-1;
   if(OrderSelect(i,SELECT_BY_POS,MODE_HISTORY)==true)
   {                                     
      OCP=OrderClosePrice();
      if (OCP==OrderStopLoss()  ) txt="SL";
      if (OCP==OrderTakeProfit()) txt="TP";
      Alert("Ордер N ",OrderTicket()," закрыт по ",txt," ",
      DoubleToStr(OCP,Digits)," прибыль ",DoubleToStr(OrderProfit(),2));
}  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Ian Flanagan]

The program runs once and only once every time a tick is received. So 2 ways you could do it are:

1. use PlaySound, and use a sound affect that last a long time.

2. use a while loop to keep sending alerts.

The problem with a loop is you need user input to cancel it. Maybe you can use a MessageBox to do this...? I've never tried but should work.

Alternatively, use a for loop to send something like 50 Alerts (with a Sleep between each), and hope that will be enough.

[Keith Watford]

alladir:

The program runs once and only once every time a tick is received. So 2 ways you could do it are:

1. use PlaySound, and use a sound affect that last a long time.

2. use a while loop to keep sending alerts.

The problem with a loop is you need user input to cancel it. Maybe you can use a MessageBox to do this...? I've never tried but should work.

Alternatively, use a for loop to send something like 50 Alerts (with a Sleep between each), and hope that will be enough.

If you used a MessageBox to cancel, I think that the message box would appear and the program will stop and wait for a response, so no more alerts while it is waiting.

Possibly the easiest way would be for the code to place a label on the chart at the same time as it sends the first alert. Follow that with a loop that checks that the label exists before sending another alert. Clicking on the label and deleting it would then stop the alert repeating.

[Niko]

Thank you guys!

GumRai this seems to be appropriate: "place a label on the chart at the same time as it sends the first alert. Follow that with a loop that checks that the label exists before sending another alert. Clicking on the label and deleting it would then stop the alert repeating."

But I can't code unfortunately (believe me I've tried learning), anyone willing to code that into the above code for me please?

Nick