When I refreshed the navigator window to show new EAs (build 670), I see the new EAs available for trading. But I do not see the new EAs available for backtesting in the strategy tester.
So that means that either the strategy tester also needs a 'refresh' button to refresh the available expert advisors. This is also true for the symbols available in the tester. The market watch symbols showing on startup are the only symbols considered. If I add more symbols or take some away, the tester symbols list is not updating. So a refresh is needed here as well.
Unless I am missing something.
Make sure the last compile had no errors.
Make sure the last compile had no errors.
The compiling isn't the problem. You can actually copy an EA directly to the terminal MQL4\Experts folder which is what I did and then hit refresh in the navigator window. The new EA is showing up in the navigator, where you can drag it to the chart for live trading. But if you open the strategy tester, it is not showing. You'd have to restart the terminal to get the new EA to show up in the tester. I was wondering if I was doing something wrong, but see that it could be a bug.
The whole point of the refresh is to make the new EAs available throughout the terminal WITHOUT restarting terminal. The same is true for market watch symbols. Only the ones available on startup are shown in the available symbols of the strategy tester. If I change symbols in the market watch, I need a method to refresh the symbols list in the tester also, WITHOUT having to restart the terminal.
When you restart the terminal, you have to start fresh and you potentially lose all of the past activity that was done in real time on your charts; mainly objects that relied on tick-by-tick precision to draw correctly.
Well if you had said that in your original post ...
Anyway the best thing to do is post that information to the service desk so the developers might correct it.
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When I refreshed the navigator window to show new EAs (build 670), I see the new EAs available for trading. But I do not see the new EAs available for backtesting in the strategy tester.
So that means that either the strategy tester also needs a 'refresh' button to refresh the available expert advisors. This is also true for the symbols available in the tester. The market watch symbols showing on startup are the only symbols considered. If I add more symbols or take some away, the tester symbols list is not updating. So a refresh is needed here as well.
Unless I am missing something.