Inifinite Loop - Sleep getting bypass at stop

[Fabylou]

Hello,

I am using an infinite loop with a "Sleep" on my "OnStart" because I want to keep track of my positions at all time.

The program works great so far, however, once I stop it, the "Sleep(5000)" (which is 5s sleep) seem to brake, and my infinite loop is getting called thousands of times in a few milliseconds, until eventually the program crashes.

Do you have any idea of what could cause this "Sleep" issue ?

Thank you for your help :)

[Paul Anscombe]

Fabylou:

Hello,

I am using an infinite loop with a "Sleep" on my "OnStart" because I want to keep track of my positions at all time.

The program works great so far, however, once I stop it, the "Sleep(5000)" (which is 5s sleep) seem to brake, and my infinite loop is getting called thousands of times in a few milliseconds, until eventually the program crashes.

Do you have any idea of what could cause this "Sleep" issue ?

Thank you for your help :)

you need to post your code otherwise it's just guess work....

but why don't you use a timer event instead, probably a neater solution.

[Fabylou]

void OnStart() {
   while (1) {
      OpenNewPositions();
      CloseOldPositions();
      Print("Infinite Loop");
      Sleep(5000);
   }
}

In here, I'm doing open/close position thing, it seem to work as intended. But as soon as I stop my program, my Print "Infinite Loop" get triggers a huge amount of times in a few millisecond, until the program crashes.
My guess is that there is an issue with MQL5 when a program gets stopped. Or maybe I should add something else in my infinite loop, I don't really know. What's sure is that it happens the second after I stop the program.

After a few research, I thought people were using the same solution as me (using an infinite loop). But if there is a more clean solution, I'm all ears.

[Paul Anscombe]

Fabylou:

In here, I'm doing open/close position thing, it seem to work as intended. But as soon as I stop my program, my Print "Infinite Loop" get triggers a huge amount of times in a few millisecond, until the program crashes.
My guess is that there is an issue with MQL5 when a program gets stopped. Or maybe I should add something else in my infinite loop, I don't really know. What's sure is that it happens the second after I stop the program.

After a few research, I thought people were using the same solution as me (using an infinite loop). But if there is a more clean solution, I'm all ears.

like I said use a timer event instead, much cleaner way to achieve what you want which is to do something every X seconds.

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/eventfunctions/eventsettimer

set the timer up once in OnInit  and then create an OnTimer() function to include what you want done

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/event_handlers/ontimer

[William Roeder]

Fabylou: I am using an infinite loop

Don't do that. Get a tick. See if something needs to be done and do it. Return and wait for a new tick.