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  • #141
  • Feb 12, 2014 1:16pm Feb 12, 2014 1:16pm
Quoting pips4life
{quote} You're welcome. I'm glad it's useful to you and many others. I don't have tons of time for such things, but I can do updates for the things I use myself. Hanover had indeed written a lot of great programs, and I thank him for sharing, but he says... which I am sad for... that he's putting Forex and MT4 aside. If that stays true, I thank him too, and wish him all the best. Regarding "P4L CandleTime", it works both ways: as a forward-compatible ex4; and if re-compiled in NewMT4(>=582), so no need for a new version there. Kent (pips4life)
Thank you P4L
Got the updated version.
Keep up the good work.
IP
Let it turn and find your entry.
  • #142
  • Feb 13, 2014 5:01am Feb 13, 2014 5:01am
Hi
I have P4L Clock indicator on IronFX MT4 ant mForex MT4. The problem is when I'm chcanging timeframe the field of this indicator is covered by 4 white rectangles. I can delete it but it is very very nervous. On QTrade MT4 the same indicator and no problem. Who can explain me this?
  • #143
  • Feb 14, 2014 11:22am Feb 14, 2014 11:22am
Quoting Intrepidpips
{quote} Thank you P4L Got the updated version. Keep up the good work. IP
It works on my Demo Build 600 but I have to keep refreshing the Template for it to come on, but it's a lot better than not working at all.
Let it turn and find your entry.
  • #144
  • Feb 17, 2014 6:06pm Feb 17, 2014 6:06pm
Superb indicator. Thanks for uploading it. I don't know if it would be too difficult to add a pip value to the clock indicator then it would suit my needs perfectly.
  • #145
  • Feb 17, 2014 6:19pm Feb 17, 2014 6:19pm
Pips4life can you make the p4l candle time indi to be independent of ticks?
  • #146
  • Feb 17, 2014 11:04pm Feb 17, 2014 11:04pm
Quoting ygrecki
Hi I have P4L Clock indicator on IronFX MT4 ant mForex MT4. The problem is when I'm chcanging timeframe the field of this indicator is covered by 4 white rectangles. I can delete it but it is very very nervous. On QTrade MT4 the same indicator and no problem. Who can explain me this?
The P4L Clock indicator relies upon a subtle and undocumented behavior of MT4 with respect to how overlapping label objects get processed for display. The latest version was modified in such a way so that it should be compatible with both 509 and post-600 builds. However, maybe the behavior is inconsistent or more subtle than I am aware of.

The 4 rectangles are simply background labels. They cover up the price bars, and provide a blank canvas upon which the other labels are displayed. Be sure to use the latest version in post #1. If you still see that the background labels are covering up the text labels, then please post an update and provide very specific details please. Build, O/S, broker, etc.

These rectangles can be deleted, or even better, just disable them by setting the very last indicator property: Background_Under_Labels = FALSE (instead of true).

Quoting Intrepidpips
{quote} It works on my Demo Build 600 but I have to keep refreshing the Template for it to come on, but it's a lot better than not working at all.
I don't experience this same behavior, so if you can provide more details it may help. For me, once added, the P4L Clock displays fine regardless of what I do. When you say "for it to come on", is there nothing there at all, or do you just see the relatively blank background labels? If the later, verify you are using the latest version.

Quoting snooptym
Superb indicator. Thanks for uploading it. I don't know if it would be too difficult to add a pip value to the clock indicator then it would suit my needs perfectly.

I have no plans for any update soon, but if you better describe your request I may eventually get around to it. Do you mean $/pip? Or spread? Or something else? Understand that there are a million possible bits of data that would be useful, but too many adds unwanted clutter. I'll consider any request though, but honestly, such updates (esp. to free indicators) are pretty low priority to me.

Quoting Supertrader9
Pips4life can you make the p4l candle time indi to be independent of ticks?
In 509 MT4, the answer is no. In new 600+ MT4, the answer is... I don't know. I'm not going to get into the new language features for some time. There might be some new possibilities for time-based indicators instead of merely tick-based. I suspect there is, but I just have no cycles to investigate it right now.
  • #147
  • Feb 18, 2014 1:14am Feb 18, 2014 1:14am
Thanks for the reply and yes what you did for people is admirable. Cheers.
  • #148
  • Feb 24, 2014 11:24am Feb 24, 2014 11:24am
I have been using P4L Clock for about 5 years.

It is one of my favorite indicators.

Thank you for the update.

It is working perfectly on my Metatrader 4 Build 610 platform.

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  • #149
  • Feb 25, 2014 2:54am Feb 25, 2014 2:54am
[quote=pips4life;. {quote} I don't experience this same behavior, so if you can provide more details it may help. For me, once added, the P4L Clock displays fine regardless of what I do. When you say "for it to come on", is there nothing there at all, or do you just see the relatively blank background labels? If the later, verify you are using the latest version. {quote}

Whenever I turn on my computer in the morning, and start my terminal, what I get is the screenshot below.
I have to go to indicators list and click on P4L Clock as if to edit it and close the indicator theen the information will show, sometimes it won't then I have to delete the indicator, attach it afresh to the chart and what I get will be the blank background and when I save a template of the chart with the newly added indie and refresh the indicator, that is when the background and info start to show.
BTW I'm on Build 610 and I notice the P4L Clock version posted on the thread is 2.1 not V2_11 as you can see from the screenshot.
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  • #150
  • Feb 26, 2014 7:47am Feb 26, 2014 7:47am
Quoting Intrepidpips
... BTW I'm on Build 610 and I notice the P4L Clock version posted on the thread is 2.1 not V2_11 as you can see from the screenshot. {image}
Well the screen shot proves beyond a doubt that you are NOT using the latest version in post#1. The old version (2.10, but displayed only as "2.1" by MT4) suffered from exactly the symptoms you described. The new version, v2.11, has the fix. The 2nd property, "_INFO_BuildInfo" should say "2014.01.30...".

Given you're using the new 610, maybe you are getting confused with the new file structure. Use the menu command File -> Open Data Folder then navigate into MQL4/Indicators/ folder, and download a fresh copy of "P4L Clock.mq4" from post#1 into this exact folder. Open the new file in MetaEditor. Search for "_INFO_Version" and verify it is 2.11 Compile it. Add it to a chart, and enable DLL's. It will work fine.
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  • #151
  • Feb 26, 2014 11:54am Feb 26, 2014 11:54am
Quoting pips4life
{quote} Well the screen shot proves beyond a doubt that you are NOT using the latest version in post#1. The old version (2.10, but displayed only as "2.1" by MT4) suffered from exactly the symptoms you described. The new version, v2.11, has the fix. The 2nd property, "_INFO_BuildInfo" should say "2014.01.30...". Given you're using the new 610, maybe you are getting confused with the new file structure. Use the menu command File -> Open Data Folder then navigate into MQL4/Indicators/ folder, and download a fresh copy of "P4L Clock.mq4" from post#1...
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I had just downloaded the indicator from post#1 and installed it before taking that screenshot and posting, so when I saw your reply I was gonna flip out but I decided to try again and deleted the copy I had in my downloads file and deleted all the copies I had in every single file and deleted all the templates with P4L in them.
After this, I downloaded the indie afresh and copied it to my platform, compiled it and restarted it then, I added it to a chart and made a template and now it's PERMANENT.
Keep up the good work.
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  • #152
  • Mar 7, 2014 7:29am Mar 7, 2014 7:29am
Hi P4L,

Thanks for this very useful indicator.
I had been using it on my every chart, and it was working well before my MT4 automatically updated today.
After my MT4 updated to build 610, some indicators seem to be incompatible. The P4L clock displays blank box.
Have downloaded and installed the latest version of P4L clock, it even displays nothing.
Appreciate your help on this.

Thanks & regards,
Huda
  • #153
  • Mar 19, 2014 2:24pm Mar 19, 2014 2:24pm
P4L Clock users on builds >=600 (the new POS that MetaQuotes is still struggling to get right).

Here's the situation from where I sit... I barely use the garbage that is >=600. I have one terminal now using 616, just to test it with a demo account, but all the rest of my terminals use 509, and I'm going to keep using 509 until MetaQuotes gets their act together, which maybe weeks or months.

I'm willing to take a look at problem reports, because I know plenty of you have no choice but to use it. That said, it's just a big distraction to me. Sorry if I'm slow to respond, or don't at all, because I have tons of my own projects to work on, and little time for debugging a moving target. MetaQuotes keeps changing their MT4 beta (alpha??) releases, and every time something new -- and often quite serious -- pops up. With this latest POS 616, I had trouble to even compile this "P4L Clock" without locking up my MT4 terminal, which I then had to kill & restart. (Fyi, it was NOT related to 'P4L Clock', but rather the other indies/EA's that my session is running, all of which ought to work just fine, but obviously don't. I just can hardly believe a company can be this bad with respect to QA).

My personal use model for P4L Clock is simple. I just run one copy in one window. I move that window icon to the far left, so when I want to check on session times, I go right to it, and see what I need to. I don't happen to load it onto any other charts, nor do I load it from a template very often. When I restart MT4, it still works. You can load it on more charts if you want to.

It turns out... loading it from a template on build >=600 *WAS* a problem.

Recall that in a previous post, I described how 509 processes objects alphabetically. I draw background labels (rectangles) that cover up the price bars, and then on TOP of those labels, I draw the market names/time labels.

Build 600 doesn't behave the same. Instead, it processes objects in the order of creation. I made a change in previous version v2_11 to make a code fix which would be compatible with both versions -- or so I thought.

In 600, when you save your chart to a template, it is saving the instance of the indicator, "P4L Clock", but it is ALSO saving all the already created objects, and it creates (or re-creates) these in some different order than what my program needs in order for the background labels to work. A work-around for the OLD version would have been to just change chart timeframes. By doing so, it would delete all the labels, and then recreate them all in the necessary order.

Once I realized how the specific use of templates were screwing things up, I made a code fix (new "v2_12" in post#1) that, for the first tick, will delete any already existing labels and then recreate them all in the proper order). The first tick occurs after the loading of the template is finished.

I hope this resolves the issues with users of build>=600 but somehow I don't think it will be the last of it.
  • #154
  • Mar 19, 2014 2:30pm Mar 19, 2014 2:30pm
See post #1 for the latest update:

2014-03-19: New "P4L Clock.mq4" v2_12
Changes:

* Fixed bug related to use of templates in new MT4 builds >=600.
* Changed version variable to unique name per release, because templates might have stored old values, masking the fact it's a new release.
* Added a free-will "Donations Welcome" message (PayPal to pips4life_at_yahoo_dt_com), to offset the considerable effort it takes to maintain this and other free programs, especially since the new release of (buggy) MT4 builds>=600, which I myself do not even use yet.

(Fyi, this version should be compatible and compile-able on both old 509 and new >=600 versions).
  • #155
  • Mar 19, 2014 11:35pm Mar 19, 2014 11:35pm
Greenstar has never been to this part of the website before. I arrived here after typing candle time indicator build 610. Wow! Fast solution to the fact that neither of my candle times work now that my terminal is updated. FF is full of a number of wondrous neighborhoods, and surprises. Guess I am feeling enthused tonight. Thank you, Kent! I think I'll stick around and check out your work.

Quoting pips4life
Last "P4L Clock.mq4" update: Mar 19, 2014, posted new v2_12 Last "P4L CandleTime.mq4" update: Mar 22, 2011, posted new v1_3 Hi all, I have used CandleTime.mq4 (aka b-Clock.mq4) for a long time, and it had some quirks in the display of single digits (e.g. ":9" instead of ":09"), and sometimes the number of seconds remaining went negative, which I thought was strange and a bit hard to notice the "-" sign. I cleaned up the code and added some user variables to control color, and/or display of the time by the bar, and/or display of a comment. The by-the-bar...
  • #156
  • Apr 4, 2014 8:46am Apr 4, 2014 8:46am
Hi,

Must say cool clock, have been using it for over 2 years now. - unfortunately it stopped working in March this year. Please can someone help?

Downloaded the latest updated download thinking this would solve it but no, it didn't. The problem is none of the text is visible on any background! Blank other than the boxes the P4L used to be visible in. Changed nothing that i am aware of.

Any help please to get this working again as the Broker I use Alpari has such poor spreds at times that its painful to use them without knowing in advance, which P4L allowed me to do. As well as timing the candle perfectly.

Help please

Pat
  • #157
  • May 31, 2014 9:22am May 31, 2014 9:22am
the down load link is not working i m on demo it helps me the older version seems to have been corrupted any help
  • #158
  • Aug 21, 2014 4:09am Aug 21, 2014 4:09am
Quoting Phylo
This compiles with out error - appears to be working (have not tested extensively). Place in MT4 / Indicators folder. Rename if required. Check if you are missing this file - stdlib.mgh. Place stdlib.mgh in MT4 / Include folder. Do not Rename. Added after initial post: The below files were downloaded on 12-Feb-14 from #post 1, compiled and renamed to fit in with my file organization. No code was altered. Problems may be due to missing stdlib.mgh. The object of the post was to show recent downloads working with Build 604 - somehow got lost along...
Hey, It's working with my mt4 #670

Thank you very much.
  • #159
  • Aug 21, 2014 4:13am Aug 21, 2014 4:13am
Quoting Phylo
This compiles with out error - appears to be working (have not tested extensively). Place in MT4 / Indicators folder. Rename if required. Check if you are missing this file - stdlib.mgh. Place stdlib.mgh in MT4 / Include folder. Do not Rename. Added after initial post: The below files were downloaded on 12-Feb-14 from #post 1, compiled and renamed to fit in with my file organization. No code was altered. Problems may be due to missing stdlib.mgh. The object of the post was to show recent downloads working with Build 604 - somehow got lost along...
Also in the properties you can change http://www.worldtimezone.net/index24.php to http://www.worldtimezone.com/index24.php (.com) b/c worldtimezone.net redirect to ***.com
  • #160
  • Aug 27, 2014 3:26am Aug 27, 2014 3:26am
Hi P4L, thank you for taking such a large amount of your time for making this indicator. It makes life a hell of a lot easier.
I'm not sure if this has been brought up, and to be quite honest it's nothing hugely important but I have a minor bug to report.

The Tokyo session is still highlighted as being open, even though it is closed. It is displaying the correct time, but the time is highlighted as being open (same as Berlin and London, which are actually open). This is merely cosmetic and as i was blessed with enough education that I can read and do not suffer from OCD then it is not an issue.
Just thought I should let you know. Thanks again
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