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Hi, How does one write a script that can apply an indicator onto a chart. I can set the initial parameters of the indicator from the script. Is this even possible ? Thanks

Hi, How do I get the chart handle of the last open chart window from Win32 API ? This is from within win32 dll, so I won't have access to the return of ChartOpen, that also returns the handle. Thanks

Hi, I am writing a program to open any offline chart programmatically and this works in recent mql4 builds, but I need a dll out of this so older builds can use it. Can anyone who is familar with win32 programming help me fix the 3 or 4 compilation

Hi, I just coded a library 'mylib.ex4' in build 840. and moved that library to build 509 and compiled an indi using that library. It compiles fine. The I move the indi to build 840 and attach the indi to a chart it says: cannot load external program

Hi, Whenever I open a chart using ChartOpen() in MT4 the last bar on the chart is on the left-most corner (meaning the entire chart is empty except for one bar on the left of the chart) . Then I have to scramble for page up / down to get it in the

Hi, I'm using an old mql4 editor (build 509) to compile and modify an existing indicator and would like to use ChartOpen() . All I need to do is just compile so I can copy the ex4 to the new MT4 (build 840) and use ChartOpen like it was intended. I

Hi, I have the following program from the net modified to open an offline chart. But all it does it open the offline chart-list. The key down and selecting the chart-list entry does not work. If someone who is familiar with windows programming please

Hi, If I manually place a horizontal line on the chart, how do I report the level where I placed the line to my EA ? How do I even identify the line ? Thanks

Chartopen() is not able to open offline charts. Is there a programmatic way to open offline charts

There is this code to programmatically a chart https://forum.mql4.com/24948#194891 But a call like this: ChartWindow ( "EURUSD" ) ; ChartWindow ( "GBPJPY" ) ; ChartWindow ( "AUDUSD" ) ; only works for the first symbol, the second and third window

Hi, Is there an external program to view hst files ? For ease of workflow, I would prefer not clicking so many buttons in MT4 to view hst files. Is there any other third party programs to view hst files

I want to use a custom period multiplier starting from a candlestick that I specify rather than the current candlestick. For simplicity lets say there are 11 bars in the current 15 min chart with the 11th bar being the most recent bar. I want to see

Hi, I have MT4 installed in a usb-drive for portability purpose + I don't want to install it on windows as it is not mine. I write the file in MT4 and read it when the file is written. But sometimes when the file is closed by the MT4 indicator and I

Hi, I Have some code like this: MqlRates rates[]; datetime   starttime = iTime( "GBPUSD" , PERIOD_M1 , 0 ); CopyRates ( "USDSAR" , PERIOD_D1 , starttime, 20 , rates); I get the following error 4051: Invalid function parameter value. I've

Hi, I have the following code for a oneshot timer: int OnInit () {    if ( EventSetTimer ( 3 ) == false ) {        int lastError = GetLastError ();        Print ( "Timer init

Hi, Lets say we have something like this:  void OnChartEvent ( const int id,         // Event identifier  

Hi, I get incorrect series array using (error 4054) in the sleep below, most of the time. Am I doing the return handling correctly ? I have code like this: MqlRates rates[]; int copied; ArraySetAsSeries(rates, true);     

Hi, I'm trying to compare two candles. How much percentage is one candle compared to the next. for that I am doing something Like:  open1 = iMA(symbol, PERIOD_H1, 1, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_OPEN, 0); close1 = iMA(symbol, PERIOD_H1, 1, 0, MODE_SMA

Hi, Is it possible to automatically re-load a loaded indicator say after a compile ? It is possible to reload, if we open metaeditor and click on compile on any of the files. It doesn't matter which file, meta-trader will refresh and re-load the