Not updating global data?

[Seantjuh1991]

Hi all,

I am still working on an EA that I am translating from MQL4 to MQL5. But I keep getting the same issue.

So the goal is when an order gets executed (is a position) I play a different sound. I use text to speech instead of the standard alerts MT5 brings.

The code itself runs well. The trading part. But not for the Alerts/Playsounds... When I am in a position i reset playSound to false after I played it. But the if statement still gets executed every tick!

Please help!

//Global data
bool playSound;
int magincNB = 123;

void OnTick()
{

//Here I check if there is any position or order open by the EA. If not I will find an entry
if(CheckIfOpenOrdersByMagicNumber(magicNB) && CheckIfOpenPositionsByMagicNumber(magicNB)) 
{
        //Entry codeblock. After executing an ordeplacement successfully:
        PlaySound("Order_Placed.wav");

        //Then I want to ''toggle'' the order executed/triggered. So:
        playSound = true;
}


//Now for the exit I split it to orders and positions. They seem very different in MT5.

if(!CheckIfOpenOrdersByMagicNumber(magicNB))
{
        //When certain time passes, I delete the order if not triggered.
        PlaySound("Order_expired.wav"); 
}

if(!CheckIfOpenPositionsByMagicNumber(magicNB))
{
        //So here I handle my exit of the open position. But when the EA arrives in this code. It means it is triggered. Because I used PositionSelectTicketinstead of Orders.

        if(playSound==true)
        {
                PlaySound("Order_triggered.wav");
                playSound = false;       <- So here I set it back to false. So when the EA keeps refreshing the code. it should only run once.... Untill the entry code block made a new trade again. Somehow this part doesn't work.
				            And the this part keeps getting executed every tick. 
                                            
        }

}
}

[Seantjuh1991]

So I tried reloading EA's and shutting down softwares and even rebooting my PC. The error still happened.

I created a new template and start adding code block by codeblock to see where it goes wrong. Also added a lot of Print() functions to see if I am in the correct loop.

Basicly I copied the whole old EA into a new file and now the code runs smoothly....