Discussing the article: "Trading with the MQL5 Economic Calendar (Part 5): Enhancing the Dashboard with Responsive Controls and Filter Buttons"
Useful, thanks.
But as many articles as I've seen about interfaces, it all looks like it's 2005.
But as many articles as I've seen about interfaces, it all looks like it's 2005.
Check out the new article: Trading with the MQL5 Economic Calendar (Part 5): Enhancing the Dashboard with Responsive Controls and Filter Buttons.
In this article, we create buttons for currency pair filters, importance levels, time filters, and a cancel option to improve dashboard control. These buttons are programmed to respond dynamically to user actions, allowing seamless interaction. We also automate their behavior to reflect real-time changes on the dashboard. This enhances the overall functionality, mobility, and responsiveness of the panel.
In this section, we will focus on creating the filter buttons that will allow us to control the different aspects of our dashboard, such as the currency pair filter, importance level filter, and time range filter, directly from the panel. By adding these buttons, we will make it easier for us to interact with the dashboard, without needing to access or modify the code each time we want to change a filter setting. The goal is to design an intuitive user interface that provides flexibility while keeping the layout simple and clean.
First, we will define the positions and properties of each of the filter buttons. We will place these buttons within the dashboard panel, allowing us to toggle between different settings for currency pairs, importance levels, and time filters. For example, we will place the currency filter buttons in the top-right corner of the dashboard, the currency, importance, and time filter selection buttons in the header section, and the cancel button right after their definition. Each button will correspond to a specific filter setting, and we can click on these buttons to apply our preferred filters.
Author: Allan Munene Mutiiria