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  • #101
  • Mar 28, 2007 3:06pm Mar 28, 2007 3:06pm
Quoting melpheos
weird since today, i cannot use it anymore, it crashes my MT4 application everytime i try to apply it

my app starts to use 99%, use more and more memory and i have to kill it before my PC goes BSOD

Hi Melpheos, was this post actually related to the FF Cal indicator? If so, I have also been experiencing very weird problems with my PC today that I believe are related to either MT4 or this indicator or both. MT4 was causing my monitor to blackout for about 10 seconds in duration. It began blacking out almost everytime I moved my mouse and I thought my video card was going bonkers. I finally uninstalled/reinstalled MT4 and now that problem is gone...but I still can't get the FF Cal indicator to sync up correctly with the time.
  • #102
  • Mar 28, 2007 3:34pm Mar 28, 2007 3:34pm
Quoting Pipskateer
Hi Melpheos, was this post actually related to the FF Cal indicator? If so, I have also been experiencing very weird problems with my PC today that I believe are related to either MT4 or this indicator or both. MT4 was causing my monitor to blackout for about 10 seconds in duration. It began blacking out almost everytime I moved my mouse and I thought my video card was going bonkers. I finally uninstalled/reinstalled MT4 and now that problem is gone...but I still can't get the FF Cal indicator to sync up correctly with the time.
No MT4 is fine, it's just when i try to apply FF Cal that it crashs

I have reinstalled it in the same folder... I'll try reinstall the app in a different folder, that might fix the issue
  • #103
  • Mar 29, 2007 2:54am Mar 29, 2007 2:54am
Quoting Pipskateer
Derk,

I am currently using the modified version of the FF Cal v04a and no matter how I set my PC clock, the upcoming event news times shown on my charts are always 1 hour ahead of the real time. I've tried enabling/disabling "adjust for DST" on my PC clock and I've tried to set the correct time manually...no combination works.

I'm assuming that FF Cal would have to correlate the upcoming news time from the FF server data (XML file?) and relate it to my PC clock time, but nothing I do seems to affect it. Any solution?

Btw...this was a problem for me with all the other versions of FF Cal, so it's not specific to the v04a...

EDIT: Also, I notice when I go to the FF calendar page on the site, the time shown is one hour behind my PC clock and then it magically syncs up after about a minute or so....something is definitely not right, but don't know if it's my PC, the FF page, or the indicator...??

Right now:
PC CLOCK = 4:00pm EDT manually, no automatic adjustment for DST
FF Cal v04a = 2 hrs/ 52 min until JPY: Retail Sales y/y
FF Calendar Webpage Current Time Shows = Initially 2:57pm then switches to 4:00pm after 30 secs
JPY: Retail Sales scheduled for: 7:50pm
My Time Settings on FF Webpage = Initiall 2:57pm then switches to 4:00pm after 30 secs
DST set to OFF on webpage
i got same error too
MT said "2007.03.29 14:21:28 FFCal_v04 GBPUSD,M30: Error obtaining PC timezone from GetTimeZoneInformation in kernel32.dll. Returning 0"

can somebody help me?
  • #104
  • Mar 29, 2007 6:59am Mar 29, 2007 6:59am
Quoting alexy
Hello Derk,

I put FFCal Ver 04 into indicators directory, restarted MT and this guy did not even appear in my custom indicators list to choose from. I checked directory and found some empty log file. That it is. I am running Vista. Any help please

Thank you
Try loading it in the metaeditor, and compiling. If it compiles okay, close the metaeditor and see if it is not available.

-Derk
  • #105
  • Mar 29, 2007 7:02am Mar 29, 2007 7:02am
Quoting Coach_Quincy
I have version "FFCal_v01.mq4" No show.
Tried version "FFCal_v04.mq4" Still no show.

TimeZone is not an input, nor do I see anywhere in the code to add it. Trying to put it on the EURUSD.

It doesn't show on any time frame, though I inserted it while in the 5 minute bar time frame.
See previous post. You should only be using version 4, no other. It does not require timezone input. It accesses a windows DLL to get your computer's TZ.

This weekend, there will be a new version out, 5. Everyone will have to switch over.

-Derk
  • #106
  • Mar 29, 2007 7:04am Mar 29, 2007 7:04am
Quoting Markj
DerkWehler,

A huge thankyou, great indicator to have. What would it take to have imformation display in a seperate window, below the chart?

I changed the properties to have a seperate window, which it does but the writting still appears on the chart and not the seperate window.
That would probably take a significant re-working of the code.
  • #107
  • Mar 29, 2007 7:05am Mar 29, 2007 7:05am
Quoting melpheos
weird since today, i cannot use it anymore, it crashes my MT4 application everytime i try to apply it

my app starts to use 99%, use more and more memory and i have to kill it before my PC goes BSOD
Try using version 4a posted a few posts back.
  • #108
  • Mar 29, 2007 7:08am Mar 29, 2007 7:08am
Quoting tiger_wong
i got same error too
MT said "2007.03.29 14:21:28 FFCal_v04 GBPUSD,M30: Error obtaining PC timezone from GetTimeZoneInformation in kernel32.dll. Returning 0"

can somebody help me?
What timezone are you in?

And you, Pipskateer?

It's posible that the windows timezone DLL isn't working correctly for certain timezones.... Perhaps I will put an option back it so people CAN set it manually. We need a better auto-detection solution.

Right now I do not have an answer...
  • #109
  • Mar 29, 2007 7:46am Mar 29, 2007 7:46am
Quoting DerkWehler
What timezone are you in?

And you, Pipskateer?

It's posible that the windows timezone DLL isn't working correctly for certain timezones.... Perhaps I will put an option back it so people CAN set it manually. We need a better auto-detection solution.

Right now I do not have an answer...
I'm in Eastern (GMT -5). I've been wondering if it has anything to do with the advance starting of DST this year?

Thanks!
  • #110
  • Mar 29, 2007 8:27am Mar 29, 2007 8:27am
Quoting Pipskateer
I'm in Eastern (GMT -5). I've been wondering if it has anything to do with the advance starting of DST this year?

Thanks!
Well, as long as you are NOT using Windows 2000, like me, they were supposed to have a patch that came out so that when Windows automagically updates your computer for DST, it works correctly. Mine did not, because the @$%^! at MS no longer support Windows 2K, but I was able to find a utility to change when my Win 2K thinks DST is, so it should be correct now.

I've already decided I am never moving to Vista, so not sure how much longer I will have a MS system; will have to move to linux or or Mac. :-)
  • #111
  • Mar 29, 2007 8:29am Mar 29, 2007 8:29am
I just saw this update of MT4 to 203:

http://www.metaquotes.net/forum/2884/

To quote (note I highlighted #13):

New MetaTrader 4 Build 203 has been released.

What’s new:

1. Corrected drawing of object FiboFan based on closely-located anchoring points.

2. Tester: Added checking for pass counter overflow in optimizer.

3. Tester: More economical use of memory when generating a testing sequence.

4. Tester: More economical use of memory when accessing data of other symbols and/or timeframes.

5. Tester: Fixed error of repeated access to improper data, the charts of which have not been previously opened. The error resulted in considerable testing delay.

6. Tester: Fixed error of margin call calculation in function init().

7. Tester: Fixed charging of swaps at partial closing of positions using function OrderCloseBy.

8. Tester: Fixed error of spread determining in some cases of "floating" spread.

9. MQL4: Fixed error of correct definition of the end-of-file state when reading csv files.

10. MQL4: Fixed error of memory leak when comparing strings.

11. MQL4: Fixed error of processing the default parameter chart_scale in function
WindowScreenShot().

12. MQL4: Fixed error of memory leak in functions having parameters of 'string' type that are initialized by default (Expert Advisors' recompiling is required).

13. MQL4: Fixed error of time determining by function TimeLocal for time zones without Daylight Saving Time.

14. HistoryCenter: Fixed error of deleting initial data from History Center.

15. MetaEditor: Revised Dictionary.

16. Fixed errors detected using crash logs.

17. Added Czech language.

18. Added help file of the client terminal in Chinese (Simplified).

The live updates is available through the LiveUpdate system. Client terminal can be downloaded using "MetaTrader 4 trading terminal"

---------------------------

I am wondering if this #13 might help anyone out with auto TZ settings on FFCal...

-Derk
  • #112
  • Mar 29, 2007 2:42pm Mar 29, 2007 2:42pm
My MT4 already liveupdated to 203 but unfortunately, it didn't cure the time problem.
  • #113
  • Mar 30, 2007 9:34am Mar 30, 2007 9:34am
Derk, I also noticed that the events as shown on the chart are one hour off. This is for FXDD, which has GMT+3 as timezone. However, when I put the indicator on IBFX, which has timezone GMT, the events are placed correctly. So maybe it has indeed something to do with the timezone calculation. This is for Build 203 in both cases, by the way.
  • #114
  • Mar 30, 2007 10:25am Mar 30, 2007 10:25am
Bernanke speaks will be 30Min later from now, but my calendar display as -444Min
  • #115
  • Mar 30, 2007 11:32am Mar 30, 2007 11:32am
Quoting Pipskateer
My MT4 already liveupdated to 203 but unfortunately, it didn't cure the time problem.
This indicator is not using the proper procedure to solve the time problem.
  • #116
  • Mar 30, 2007 12:49pm Mar 30, 2007 12:49pm
props to the king. couldnt tell you how many bad trades/lost profits i had because i was too lazy to look at a calender
  • #117
  • Mar 30, 2007 1:03pm Mar 30, 2007 1:03pm
Don't know if this is FF Cal indicator code problem or a FF website data feed problem, but I'm now getting MT4 popup alerts saying:

"GetNewsFF Error - Webpage download was not complete!"
  • #118
  • Mar 30, 2007 1:04pm Mar 30, 2007 1:04pm
Quoting Pipskateer
Don't know if this is FF Cal indicator code problem or a FF website data feed problem, but I'm now getting MT4 popup alerts saying:

"GetNewsFF Error - Webpage download was not complete!"
same here.even using v3 also same.but this only happening after update MT4 to build 203
  • #119
  • Mar 30, 2007 2:10pm Mar 30, 2007 2:10pm
Hello Derk,

I put FFCal Ver 04 into indicators directory, restarted MT and this guy did not even appear in my custom indicators list to choose from. I checked directory and found some empty log file. That it is. I am running Vista. Any help please

Thank you
  • #120
  • Mar 30, 2007 4:16pm Mar 30, 2007 4:16pm
Unfortunately, the source of the calendar file is no longer available.
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