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  • #141
  • Edited Feb 14, 2011 1:49am Feb 13, 2011 10:26pm | Edited Feb 14, 2011 1:49am
Quoting hanover
........please confirm that the above solution would be satisfactory to you, and I'll do it when I get some time.........
I've gone ahead anyway. Version 1.15 now supports plotting of Heikin Ashi candles. This is the best that I can do, given the 8 buffer limitation.

Download from post #1.
  • #142
  • Feb 14, 2011 4:57am Feb 14, 2011 4:57am
Thanks David,

Good job on that and fast. I sent you a PM so let me know if you have any problems opening it. It will be released under a different name but forgetting all that, give me some feed back on it if you could. (It's not mine, just given to me by the author)

Juicyt
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  • #143
  • Edited 8:55am Feb 15, 2011 8:29am | Edited 8:55am
Quoting hanover
I've gone ahead anyway. Version 1.15 now supports plotting of Heikin Ashi candles. This is the best that I can do, given the 8 buffer limitation.

Download from post #1.

Hi David good work,

Just wonder that this indicator support on offline chart?
If possible to develop it?

I also facing this problem when I'm applying the template into different chart. The chart will have the redundant text object of the template that I'm copied. Could this issues solve?

Thanks
  • #144
  • Edited 7:42pm Feb 15, 2011 7:29pm | Edited 7:42pm
Quoting fxforex
Hi David good work,

Just wonder that this indicator support on offline chart?
If possible to develop it?

I also facing this problem when I'm applying the template into different chart. The chart will have the redundant text object of the template that I'm copied. Could this issues solve?

Thanks
You can attach the indy to an offline chart, but the Recent Candles won't update, if the chart is not updating itself in real time. The indy will display only standard chart timeframes (M1, M5, etc).

It's best not to save templates that include this indy. The problem seems to be that MT4 gets confused between the chart currency pair, and the pair(s) specified in the indy's CurrencyPair parameter.

I don't plan on making any further modifications to this indy. I'm too busy with other work at the moment.
  • #145
  • Jan 23, 2012 3:06am Jan 23, 2012 3:06am
Please why not put this instruction "if using vista / win 7 MOVE MT4 OUT OF THE PROGRAM FILES DIRECTORY!!!" in post 1 in addition to the reference to the posts here since I believe is simple enough than trying to go through the posts individually to discover the simple instruction/solution.

Thanks for a great tool.
Quoting hanover
You can attach the indy to an offline chart, but the Recent Candles won't update, if the chart is not updating itself in real time. The indy will display only standard chart timeframes (M1, M5, etc).

It's best not to save templates that include this indy. The problem seems to be that MT4 gets confused between the chart currency pair, and the pair(s) specified in the indy's CurrencyPair parameter.

I don't plan on making any further modifications to this indy. I'm too busy with other work at the moment.
  • #146
  • Jan 24, 2012 4:41am Jan 24, 2012 4:41am
Quoting fosters
Please why not put this instruction "if using vista / win 7 MOVE MT4 OUT OF THE PROGRAM FILES DIRECTORY!!!" in post 1 in addition to the reference to the posts here since I believe is simple enough than trying to go through the posts individually to discover the simple instruction/solution.

Thanks for a great tool.
Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

If you're having problems running the indy on either Vista or Win7, the following link might be helpful. Failing that, there are plenty of similar articles on the internet explaining how to work around the Windows UAC; simply type a suitable search phrase into Google.

Hope this helps.

David
  • #147
  • Apr 22, 2012 8:19am Apr 22, 2012 8:19am
first of all, i have to thank u, Hanover for this wonderful piece of work. my problem is that it cant show charts that have more than 6 alphabet as its name. e.g EURUSD, GBPUSD these are all ok. but charts like 'Oil_Chart' and 'DJ_Charts' (Dow Jones) etc cannot be shown. pls help. thanks
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  • #148
  • Apr 22, 2012 6:15pm Apr 22, 2012 6:15pm
Quoting sexypips
my problem is that it cant show charts that have more than 6 alphabet as its name
Sorry, I can't reproduce your problem. Screenshot shows br0ker with > 6 characters in currency symbol, and the indy works fine. I don't know how your br0ker's symbols operate.

If you're running Win7 or Vista, please see the notes in post #1. I run WinXP exclusively, I can't troubleshoot Win7 or Vista problems. Many of the indys that I wrote don't work on Win7 or Vista platforms, yet they work just fine on WinXP. That is one reason why the indy is offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. I've spent many frustrating hours trying to find non-existent bugs in my indys, that turned out to be Win7 or Vista related problems. Please feel welcome to contact Microsoft and ask them why they now sell buggy operating systems.
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  • #149
  • Apr 23, 2012 11:05am Apr 23, 2012 11:05am
Quoting hanover
Sorry, I can't reproduce your problem. Screenshot shows br0ker with > 6 characters in currency symbol, and the indy works fine. I don't know how your br0ker's symbols operate.

If you're running Win7 or Vista, please see the notes in post #1. I run WinXP exclusively, I can't troubleshoot Win7 or Vista problems. Many of the indys that I wrote don't work on Win7 or Vista platforms, yet they work just fine on WinXP. That is one reason why the indy is offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. I've spent many frustrating hours trying to find non-existent...
thanks for the reply: guess i gotta deal with it
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  • #150
  • Jul 19, 2012 12:24am Jul 19, 2012 12:24am
Hanover, here is the indy. Actually it works but I do not know how place it at the bottom of the chart horizontally in a separate window, like of yours in the first page of this thread.
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  • #151
  • Jul 19, 2012 7:21am Jul 19, 2012 7:21am
Quoting tashkent
Hanover, here is the indy. Actually it works but I do not know how place it at the bottom of the chart horizontally in a separate window, like of yours in the first page of this thread.
Attach the indy multiple times, specifying a different Currency Pair for each instance. It works for me; I'm not sure if it will work on Windows 7.
  • #152
  • Jul 23, 2012 2:34pm Jul 23, 2012 2:34pm
Quoting hanover
Attach the indy multiple times, specifying a different Currency Pair for each instance. It works for me; I'm not sure if it will work on Windows 7.
Thanks for reply. the indicator i attached works with all OS, my problem is I have no idea how to change the parameters. please have a look at these charts, first one is mine, second one is yours. is there any way that i can change the position of the mini chart, so that it is placed at the bottom of the active chart in a separate window just as yours? at the moment it is on the right side and does not give the best view.
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  • #153
  • Jul 23, 2012 2:37pm Jul 23, 2012 2:37pm
this is a lot better positioning.
ps. i want to add daily mini chart as well, what should i do?
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  • #154
  • Jul 23, 2012 6:30pm Jul 23, 2012 6:30pm
Quoting tashkent
this is a lot better positioning.
ps. i want to add daily mini chart as well, what should i do?
As far as I know, provided that you type the correct currency symbol IDs into the CurrencyPairs parameter, the indy should display the candles for that symbol. In the attached screenshot, the CurrencyPairs parameter was set to AUDUSDiam, and it seemed to work.

However, this might differ from br0ker to br0ker. There are over 200 MT4 br0kers, and I don 't have the time to test the indy on all of them.

Or it could be a Win7 problem.
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  • #155
  • Aug 24, 2012 12:11pm Aug 24, 2012 12:11pm
Hello David, i want to make a humble request. Can u modify dis indicator so the indicator does not move with the main window? I hav had situations where i wil place a fib or trendlines on de indicator b4 i know it, the recent candles hav left de lines. Thankz
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  • #156
  • Aug 24, 2012 3:45pm Aug 24, 2012 3:45pm
Quoting sexypips
Hello David, i want to make a humble request. Can u modify dis indicator so the indicator does not move with the main window? I hav had situations where i wil place a fib or trendlines on de indicator b4 i know it, the recent candles hav left de lines. Thankz
Sexy,

This would necessitate a complete rewrite of the indy, because it currently uses MT4's available buffers to plot the candle shapes, and by doing it this way, the candles move with the main window. The alternative would be to somehow plot the candle shapes as text label objects, which are the only type of MT4 objects that can be fixed by screen (X,Y) position. Hence it would be necessary to find some Windows font that included shapes like boxes and lines, from which to construct a candle. Not a trivial project.

You can see this if you place a rectangle object on the chart; it can be positioned at a given price and time, but not at an X and Y position. Then do the same with a text label, and satisfy yourself that it uses an X and Y position rather than price and time. (That is the difference between a 'text label' object and a 'text' object).

A good example of what I mean is the CSM indy (screenshot in the linked post) that I wrote. The histogram remains fixed, because each histogram bar is actually a plot of a number of uppercase Is, rotated 90 degrees, using a special font (Placard MT condensed). Quite an ingenious effect, LOL. But I don't know of a font that would make it possible to plot candle shapes in this way.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. It's annoying that MT4 doesn't allow the programmer to fix the screen position of boxes and lines.

David
  • #157
  • Aug 25, 2012 2:40am Aug 25, 2012 2:40am
because it's just so hard to find all objects on a window and move them one space to the right whenever a new bar starts.

actually, it's terribly simple. some things just are nowhere near as difficult as some would make it sound. a bar count, a for loop, some object window property tests, a new time1 and time2 property setting, a sprinkle of salt and pepper...

must just be a 'win 7' problem.
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  • #158
  • Aug 26, 2012 2:40am Aug 26, 2012 2:40am
Quoting nubcake
because it's just so hard to find all objects on a window and move them one space to the right whenever a new bar starts.

actually, it's terribly simple. some things just are nowhere near as difficult as some would make it sound. a bar count, a for loop, some object window property tests, a new time1 and time2 property setting, a sprinkle of salt and pepper...

must just be a 'win 7' problem.
Your solution sounds good in theory, but I doubt that the required code changes are anywhere near as simple as you suggest.

I've attached the .mq4 file to post #1, to give you the opportunity to make good your claim.
  • #159
  • Aug 26, 2012 5:37am Aug 26, 2012 5:37am
reposting your original post from yesterday suggests you want a reply...

no, i'm not touching your code. no it's not just "good theory". i'm sure someone out there is bored enough to work it into your code so that the other guy gets a workable alternative to what he was asking for. or instead, he could just actually open the proper chart like everyone else and plot whatever he wants.

everyone wants to make things so difficult. things that are hard are just things that haven't had the easy way worked-out yet.
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  • #160
  • Aug 26, 2012 7:57pm Aug 26, 2012 7:57pm
Quoting nubcake
reposting your original post from yesterday suggests you want a reply...

no, i'm not touching your code. no it's not just "good theory". i'm sure someone out there is bored enough to work it into your code so that the other guy gets a workable alternative to what he was asking for. or instead, he could just actually open the proper chart like everyone else and plot whatever he wants.

everyone wants to make things so difficult. things that are hard are just things that haven't had the easy way worked-out yet.
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