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Is there a way to access the chart...

  • #1
  • First Post: Dec 2, 2009 5:13am Dec 2, 2009 5:13am
..while I have opened a script window?

By opening my buy- / sell-scripts, I cannot access the chart or anything but this scriptwindow, till I close it.
So it behaves different than the default Order-Window from MT4, where I still can measure pips or change pairs etc..

#property show_inputs seems not to allow access of any other window at the time it is open.


Do you know of any way I can create a buy/sell command (with entry fields) that still lets me access the chart and tabs of MT4?


I would be thankful for help here..
Lowen
  • #2
  • Dec 2, 2009 6:19am Dec 2, 2009 6:19am
Quoting Lowen
Do you know of any way I can create a buy/sell command (with entry fields) that still lets me access the chart and tabs of MT4?
I'm not aware of any possibility to create any kind of non-modal UI (or any kind of useful UI at all) in metatrader4 without having to do complicated workarounds and ugly hacks like custom dlls that would directly access the windows API or some GUI framework to create windows and dialogs.

Metaquotes completely forgot to implement things like that.

You could partially work around this by using global variables, so you can set the parameters at uncritical times when you don't need access to the charts, close the global variables window when you are done and then later just fire the script (which will use these values) with a double-click or a hotkey.
  • #3
  • Dec 2, 2009 7:57am Dec 2, 2009 7:57am
Quoting 7bit
You could partially work around this by using global variables, so you can set the parameters at uncritical times when you don't need access to the charts, close the global variables window when you are done and then later just fire the script (which will use these values) with a double-click or a hotkey.
hmm, thanks 7bit

that does not sound very satisfying..
with my method on short timeframes, the setup is quite "on-the-fly", so your suggestion does not really work for me..

Any kind of hack existing around here which does sth. like you described (accessing windows API or the like)?

Lowen
  • #4
  • Dec 2, 2009 8:18am Dec 2, 2009 8:18am
Quoting Lowen
hmm, thanks 7bit

that does not sound very satisfying..
with my method on short timeframes, the setup is quite "on-the-fly", so your suggestion does not really work for me..

Any kind of hack existing around here which does sth. like you described (accessing windows API or the like)?

Lowen
I once have managed to start a wxPython application as a separate thread from within an EA and had it communicate with each other but this was only an experiment i made while developing and debugging my Python bindings. I don't think this is the way you want to go, too much complications.

You could try to write an EA and give it commands and parameters by moving around lines and other objects on the chart with the mouse. For example lines representing stops and limits and labels named "buy" and "sell" that - when moved with the mouse - will trigger a market order. You could let this EA calculate your position size automatically by the distances of these lines, symbol, timeframe or other rules.

Maybe metatrader 5 will make things like that a bit easier.
  • #5
  • Dec 2, 2009 8:52am Dec 2, 2009 8:52am
Quoting 7bit
I once have managed to start a wxPython application as a separate thread from within an EA and had it communicate with each other but this was only an experiment i made while developing and debugging my Python bindings. I don't think this is the way you want to go, too much complications.
no thank you

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...For example lines representing stops and limits and labels named "buy" and "sell" that - when moved with the mouse - will trigger a market order. You could let this EA calculate your position size automatically by the distances of these lines, symbol, timeframe or other rules.

yeah I think I have one EA here that does this.. maybe a good solution. Currently I drag my mouse to measure pips to initial SL, than enter that value so the script can calculate position size, based on defined risk & equity..


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Maybe metatrader 5 will make things like that a bit easier.
will it?

Thanks 7bit,
Lowen
  • #6
  • Dec 2, 2009 9:02am Dec 2, 2009 9:02am
Quoting Lowen
will it?
I heared some rumor that you can place buttons (and maybe also other GUI elements) directly on the chart and hopefully they will allow buttons to fire events that the script can react to.

I didn't try it yet. Since end users (traders) don't have any influence on the final product (brokers are their customers, not traders) it doesn't make any sense to test it now. I will have a look at it when it is feature complete (currently it isn't even complete, it is still pre-alpha)
  • #7
  • Last Post: Dec 2, 2009 9:50am Dec 2, 2009 9:50am
Quoting 7bit
I heared some rumor that you can place buttons (and maybe also other GUI elements) directly on the chart and hopefully they will allow buttons to fire events that the script can react to.

I didn't try it yet. Since end users (traders) don't have any influence on the final product (brokers are their customers, not traders) it doesn't make any sense to test it now. I will have a look at it when it is feature complete (currently it isn't even complete, it is still pre-alpha)
well I hope it will be sth. suitable for us traders..
I'm also a lil bit afraid that the new version will get adapted too much to the US-regimentations, making it too unflexible for us traders around the world. Not sure thou' what that hurts us, currently, as I've not dived into that..
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