Removing some functions from metatrader

anytime that i accidentally click on the "market" tab, for example, my metatrader freezes up for maybe thirty seconds.

i dont need the markets tab, cuz that is where they try to sell to me some useless trading bots, and i simply have no use for that and i just dont want to see it.

as trivial as this might seem, what might be involved in disabling this tab, would it require some machine level programming? or what? any ideas? i am not a well versed "windows gui" developer, so maybe this is a dumb question.

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2. Stop clicking around

3. Market only shows while you have Terminal open, just leave it on the Trade tab

4. Then use F11 to go full screen, voila, no tabs to be seen

hello erebus, i do appreciate your response, but i was sortof looking for something a bit more along the lines of how could this tab be disabled..

i am not a very well experienced windows api programmer, but i almost suspect that there would be a way to modify a windows application to prevent that windows message from being sent or received..

do you have any thoughts about this?

much appreciated.

oh, i think that i might have found the answer, it is called "windows hooks". I havent read it all carefully yet, but i think that by using the windows hooks you can intercept windows messages and maybe you can disregard certain messages, i dont know yet for sure.

http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/41238-global-hooks-to-intercept-windows-messages/

this could probably be accomplished from inside of a mql4 expert program, since they are able to make low level windows api function calls, which means that this could seriously open up a can of worms for trading bot developers.

there is really no telling what kind of things could be intercepted from the metatrader terminal, and also maybe things could be injected into the platform that would be a bit wicked.

i am going to step out on a limb and guess that it would be possible to add a custom keyboard handler that would allow you to add custom keystroke handlers to the metatrader application?


jolly good.

There is a much more easy solution. Install Windows Firewall Control from BiniSoft and import the attached rule (adjust it to your installation). As a result all MetaQuotes content in the footer tabs is gone.

edit: Rename the file extension from .xml to .wpw to import it directly into BiniSoft WFC.

BiniSoft wants *.wfw *.wpw file format for an import here?

Well, for a start, being part of the mql5 Community is not all a bad thing, it's more than useless bots, but I guess you never explored the website at all.

The 2nd thing is, I find many traders get distracted by minor issues, and then become obsessed with those issues

What that does is divert all attention away from trading, in fact, the main purpose is lost.

So good luck, I'm back to TA and trading, tabs and all

Yes, I didn't check that there's no way to enter *.* as a file mask. Rename the above .xml to .wpw ("partial" firewall rules policy).
.wfw stands for a "full" policy and here we only want to import a single rule.

ps: The last version of WFC before it was bought by Malwarebytes was 5.4.0. It was the only version wich was free.

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32063594-App-Update-Windows-Firewall-Control-5-4-0-0-Released

download: http://www.pewasoft.com/.intern/.rtorrent/Windows%20Firewall%20Control/

Long ago i visited the mql5 forum, and after i crossed paths with whroeder i decided to not return.. he was so very rude, he talks down to people that ask simple questions about programming issues, and so i simply will not return to that place for any thing and it is my preference that even as much as i simply love my metatrader platform, i do not think it is appropriate to put advertisements into my trading platform.. imagine if i were trading twenty five million dollars using metatrader and it actually has advertisements for some cheezy trading bots, omg... this is pure nonsense, in my opinion.

https://www.mql5.com/en/users/WHRoeder

my interest in removing that tab is twofold.. number one, it finds the potential solution for me that might allow me to disallow that tab being clicked on, and it also might bring up other possible solutions such as this firewall method which does actually look like a possible fix, tho i like the idea much more of writing some low level windows api code that would become a part of my primary EA bot..

i dont actually expect to sit down and start writing this code to do windows hooks anytime soon, but now i do have that option at my disposal should i decide to take a few days to put it together.

i am a programmer first, and a trader secondarily.

i am only a trader because this is my current programming project to design and develop trading software.. personally, i can almost say that i dislike trading, but i really enjoy coding.

in a perfect fantasy world, i would have one of my hands wrapped directly around a primary banking pipeline and the other hand on a gcc C compiler on a linux box, and i would without hesitation shitcan metatrader so fast that metaquotes would not have time to blink.

it is very nice to meet you, mr erebus.


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