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Modifying Mt4 platform?

  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 22, 2013 11:17am Apr 22, 2013 11:17am
I would appreciate if someone can answer the following question. I would like to modify the mt4 platform eliminating access to the navigator by menu or ctrl + N. and eliminate access to the template (save, load and remove). Is this possible by me or I have to hide a programmer to do it? Thanks again!
  • #2
  • Apr 22, 2013 1:02pm Apr 22, 2013 1:02pm
Quoting h4xforum
I would appreciate if someone can answer the following question. I would like to modify the mt4 platform eliminating access to the navigator by menu or ctrl + N. and eliminate access to the template (save, load and remove). Is this possible by me or I have to hide a programmer to do it? Thanks again!
How will you stop the end user downloading a new complete copy of the terminal ?
20 pips a day isn't too much to ask . . .
  • #3
  • Apr 22, 2013 3:04pm Apr 22, 2013 3:04pm
I just resolved the issue of protecting the template with Lock Folder program. Right now, I need to know how to protect my custom indicators from being copied. When I locked them they do not upload in metatrader. Any help on this matter, will be appreciated again.
  • #4
  • Apr 22, 2013 3:14pm Apr 22, 2013 3:14pm
Quoting RaptorUK
{quote} How will you stop the end user downloading a new complete copy of the terminal ?
At this moment it is not my concern; plus read Above
  • #5
  • Apr 22, 2013 4:47pm Apr 22, 2013 4:47pm
What you want to do would is probably not allowed under the software terms of use.. Anything you lock can also be unlocked by a talented programer.. Any indicator/template can also be figured out. Just look all over FF you see decomplied or hacked indi's in every thread it seems. Bottom line if you don't want it out in the world keep it yourself. If your plan is to go commercial, well then Good Luck. It will be on Ebay with in weeks.
  • #6
  • Apr 22, 2013 4:59pm Apr 22, 2013 4:59pm
I found your first post to be incomprehensible, so I am ignoring it. Your use of terminology was confusing.

From your second post, I understand you want to copy protect some indicator files. That cannot be realistically done by anybody but a programmer. But there is a caveat. Even a very good programmer's protection scheme can be broken by another programmer who is better at cracking them. So it depends on how well much protection you want. Protection from other traders' copying is easy. Protection from "kiddie scripters" is easy. Protection from someone who is skilled and determined enough is not possible. So it is possible to discourage most people, but not all. Is your code that valuable? There are many other avenues available for a skilled cracker to attack, so why would he bother with your code?
  • #7
  • Apr 22, 2013 8:26pm Apr 22, 2013 8:26pm
google

"folder locking softwares"
been there done that, Good Bye
  • #8
  • Apr 22, 2013 8:45pm Apr 22, 2013 8:45pm
I forgot to mention in my previous post that MetaQuotes is offering a market service for people who want to sell MQL5 software. It claims to offer protection services so that only authorized buyers can use it. I couldn't find many details, but I suspect its a pretty weak protection scheme. But it would probably keep some people who can crack MQL4 from doing it. Of course once somebody does crack it, all such code will become vulnerable. That is the disadvantage of a standard protection scheme. A custom one should be better.

http://www.mql5.com/en/market/rules
  • #9
  • Apr 23, 2013 8:03am Apr 23, 2013 8:03am
Thanks all for your answers! I stopped the template icon in the toolbar for saving the system as template with a third party software. The custom indicators were impossible to lock with a third party software because then the indicators wouldn't upload on metatrader. I went around with another third party software and I locked the cd, usb and any portable device ports; in that way the indicators cannot be saved by anyone. I wish I could hide the custom indicators but it seems impossible. Again thanks.
  • #10
  • Last Post: Apr 23, 2013 8:38am Apr 23, 2013 8:38am
Quoting h4xforum
Thanks all for your answers! I stopped the template icon in the toolbar for saving the system as template with a third party software. The custom indicators were impossible to lock with a third party software because then the indicators wouldn't upload on metatrader. I went around with another third party software and I locked the cd, usb and any portable device ports; in that way the indicators cannot be saved by anyone. I wish I could hide the custom indicators but it seems impossible. Again thanks.
if u dont mind, can u tell us, what is need for all this?
been there done that, Good Bye
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