MT4 EA input menu

Is it possible to make a menu for the inputs a user selects when an EA is started.

For example I have a string input called "LongOrShort" where the user will input "long" or "short". However, since the input must be spelled correctly, and since capital letters can't be used I was wondering if there was a way to make a menu in which the used could only select "long" or "short", and thus solve the problem of inputing the wrong characters. (Sort of like you can only select "true" or "fulse" for a boolean selection).

I would also like to do the same thing for timeframe selection, but once I get the long/short input fixed it will be easy to do the same for the timeframe selection.

I thought I would give this a bump. I often wonder if the best questions are the ones that don't get answered

Hey did you ever find an answer ?
I want my EA to have a dropdown menu for the timeframes

Z

PS I found this may it helps you

if (TimeFrame=="M1" || TimeFrame=="1" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_M1;
else
if (TimeFrame=="M5" || TimeFrame=="5" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_M5;
else
if (TimeFrame=="M15" || TimeFrame=="15" )PeriodName=PERIOD_M15;
else
if (TimeFrame=="M30" || TimeFrame=="30" )PeriodName=PERIOD_M30;
else
if (TimeFrame=="H1" || TimeFrame=="60" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_H1;
else
if (TimeFrame=="H4" || TimeFrame=="240" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_H4;
else
if (TimeFrame=="D1" || TimeFrame=="1440" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_D1;
else
if (TimeFrame=="W1" || TimeFrame=="10080" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_W1;
else
if (TimeFrame=="MN" || TimeFrame=="43200" ) PeriodName=PERIOD_MN1;
else
{
PeriodName=Period();
return(0);
}

nope, no answers yet. Maybe it can't be done??????

http://forum.mql4.com/4754 shows some feature requests. Yours is one of them. Maybe the next version?

Last post - 2006.. now - 2011.. after 5 years, i reply this post.. lol
not that hard though.. i know i can be done (i talk alone here). use predefined data; extern double wtf=0.0; syntax error bla bla bla