a few of my indicators wont work on offline charts for some reason, like round numbers and pivots
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It's very likely that your indicator, ea or script that generates the offline chart is not writing the offline chart with SHARE_READ and SHARE_WRITE Flags, so it writes into it but the offline chart get's no updates because the file is locked.
Then you will not recieve any new tick and thats maybe the problem your indicators don't show any results because the need the ticks to compute all.
If it is not updating, then the code that generates the offline chart is not sending correct events to the offline chart
Check the offline data generating code - it has to be updated to the new builds of metatrader 4
If it is not updating, then the code that generates the offline chart is not sending correct events to the offline chart Check the offline data generating code - it has to be updated to the new builds of metatrader 4
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Since the introduction of SHARED WRITE and READ there is no need to send fake ticks via PostEvent. I have this issue fixed since then at several EAs working with offline charts.
{quote} Since the introduction of SHARED WRITE and READ there is no need to send fake ticks via PostEvent. I have this issue fixed since then at several EAs working with offline charts.
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Nothing to do with file sharing - sharing and flushing was done in the previous (old builds) of metatrader 4 too
Check the "official" period converter at mql5 forum too (from here : https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/1387 )- this part of the script
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if(hwnd==0)
{
hwnd=WindowHandle(Symbol(),i_period);
if(hwnd!=0) Print("Chart window detected");
}
//---- refresh window not frequently than 1 time in 2 seconds
if(hwnd!=0 && cur_time-last_time>=2)
{
PostMessageA(hwnd,WM_COMMAND,33324,0);
last_time=cur_time;
}
}
Sleep(50);
Without that, the file flushing will produce only a dead chart.
And even that code has an error (being "official" somehow did not prevent it from having an error, but will let the others explain what is the error in it)
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If you are using your EA from an online chart and using offline data or you are using timer in your EAs (and then it can work even on a "dead" offline chart like that), that does not solve the issue he has or the issue that the offline chart will not trigger events to anything attached to it if you do not do it externally - mt4 could not care less of yet another opened offline chart - it takes care only of its online charts
