Pausing an EA - Graphic Button

Gentlemen

Currently i am seeking a way to individually pause an EA on a particular chart. Ideally i would like a button/label i can double click to pause/unpause.

I do not want to use the EA button because that will stop all the EA's and I do no want to remove the EA from the chart only to re-add it at a later time(what i am currently doing when required).

If someone can suggest a method it would be most appreciated.... I was thinking of implementing a sleep function., but i do not know how to to tag it to a label/button on the chart

Thanks Much
Tread

hey tread.... for something visual, create 3 objects.... one name ea, one run and one stop......

use the drag and drop method to place the ea object on run, to run or return(true).... place the ea object on stop, to stop or return(false).....

my preference is to have the first extern input as a ea stopping bool......

extern bool trade = true;

takes only 2 clicks to be false.....h

Talk about taking off on a tangent and not looking back . I became so focused on a damn button type scenario, i completely overlooked the obvious "true/false" simple,elegant and virtually unbreakable solution


Thanks Hay!!

Theres different ways to do this, A few question:

It sounds like you want to pause more then one EA at a time or am I reading something into it?

Do you want to pause the EA from the graphics on THAT EA or from another program? as from the graphics of an Indicator or master EA.

Do you want to pause/restart an EA from within the code too or just graphicly?

Theres a few OnClick dlls that are available but most have defects. that is due to the way MT controls chart windows. You can use the mouse but you have to be able to have your button readable from within the code and not use a stationary buttom. The coordinates of your graphics will change if you change the chart window location or resize it. that is the way the mouse will see it.

The drag and drop is a more reliable (easier) way to go about it. You only need one graphic object (per EA) to turn it on off. and you can do that from an other program even an indicator code, and you can do in in the code itself if you want one code to pause it on a conditional base. You can even, (if you use scritps) graphicly remove the script, even from another indicator or window.

give more details of what your intending on doing.


Keit