Upcoming Empty4 4 and MQL4 Upgrades

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HO HO HO Metacrap Christmas from Ivan to You

New Empty4 4 Platform build 950: Built-in video and performance improvements
The Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Wednesday, December 23, 2015. The update will feature the following changes:
Hosting: Added a link to the video tutorial "How to rent a virtual platform" into the Virtual Hosting Wizard dialog. Watch the two-minute video to learn how to easily launch a trading robot or copy signals 24/7.
This video as well as many others is available on the official MetaQuotes Software Corp. YouTube channel.
1. Terminal: Fixed sorting of MQL4 programs in the sub-folders of the Navigator window. Applications are sorted by name.
2. Terminal: Fixed drawing of the network connection status indicator on ultra-high-definition screens (4K).
3. Terminal: Fixed display of the print preview window in the News section.
4. Terminal: A full-featured search function has been added to the log viewer of the terminal, Expert Advisors, Strategy Tester and Virtual Hosting. You can search forward and backward, search for whole words and toggle case sensitivity.
5. MetaEditor: Added a link to the tutorial video "How to assemble a trading robot" to the MQL4 Wizard. Watch the three-minute video and develop a trading robot without writing a single line of code.
6. MQL4: Fixed the value returned by the SignaBaseTotal function. In some cases, the function could return a zero value instead of the total number of signals available in the terminal.
7. MQL4: Fixed editing of graphical object visibility on different timeframes from MQL4 programs. In some cases, the object could be invisible on a chart after changing this property.
8. Tester: Fixed display of price values and SL\TP levels in testing results.
9. Fixed errors reported in crash logs.
The update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.
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silky » Tue Dec 22, 2015 2:51 pm wrote:HO HO HO Metacrap Christmas from Ivan to You...
Thanks for taking the time to post these updates. :good:

JR
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New Empty4 4 Build 970: Simplified demo account opening and expanded MQL4 features

Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Friday, June 3, 2016. The update will feature the following changes:

July 1, 2016 support for Empty4 4 terminal versions below 940 will end

Support for Empty4 4 terminal builds below 940 will be discontinued on July 1, 2016. Unsupported terminal builds will not be able to connect to the new server versions. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you upgrade your terminal.
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New Empty4 4 build 985: Built-in MQL5.community Chat
Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Friday, July 1, 2016. The update will feature the following changes:
Support for Empty4 4 terminal versions below 940 to end on July 1, 2016
After July 1, 2016, Empty4 4 terminal versions below 940 will be no longer supported. Unsupported terminal builds will not be able to connect to new server versions. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you update your terminals.
Empty4 4 Client Terminal build 985
1. Terminal: New built-in chat. Now, traders can chat with their MQL5.community friends and fellow traders straight from the platform. The chat maintains the history of messages, as well as it features the number of unread messages. To start a chat, log in to your MQL5 account straight from the chat window or via the platform settings: 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> 'Community'.
2. Terminal: Optimized reading of the internal mail database when the terminal starts.
3. MQL4: Added an option to show/hide the price and time scale on any chart. In earlier versions, an MQL4 application could only change the CHART_SHOW_PRICE_SCALE and CHART_SHOW_DATE_SCALE properties of the chart, on which it was running.
4. MQL4: New MODE_CLOSEBY_ALLOWED property for the MarketInfo function. TRUE means that the Close By operation (closing by a counter position) is allowed for the specified financial symbol.
5. MQL4: Fixed passing of a string parameter to the OnChartEvent entry point. The error could cause a false value of the parameter. OnChartEvent allows tracking chart events: keypress events, mouse movement and more.
6. MQL4: Implemented faster deletion of multiple graphical objects using the ObjectsDeleteAll function.
7. Signals: Improved automated matching of currency pairs containing RUB and RUR.
8. Tester: Fixed stamping of graphical object creation time during testing. In earlier versions, the current terminal time was added instead of testing time.
9. MetaEditor: Fixed setting of focus in the replace text field when opening a replace dialog box.
10. MetaEditor: Fixed replacing of multiple text occurrences when you search upwards starting from the current positions.
11. Fixed errors reported in crash logs.

The update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.
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We are Sorry, Har, Har, Har

New Empty4 4 Platform Build 988: Hotfix

Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Monday, July 4, 2016. This hotfix update build 988 follows the previous release. It fixes bulk deletion of graphical objects by prefix using the ObjectDeleteAll function. Previously, execution of this function resulted in a wrong drawing order of the remaining objects.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

The update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.
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After release of Empty4 build 988 something strange did happen, because most of the custom tools (indicators, experts, scripts) in the Empty4-navigator were suddenly not more available in the navigator window as also missing in the open Data folder, except of the tools provided by Empty4 standard installation.

I use Windows 7 Professional installed.
Empty4 originally has been located in the root:
(C:) \ programs (x86)


After than I switched in the a.m. origin installed Empty4/MQL4-root and by surprise there were all custom tools still listed in their appropriate MQL4-folders, but not all of the EX4-files did show there icons.

I assume, maybe it might be caused by System Windows 7 security adjustments
or anyway the Empty4 update did change and move something in the origin-Empty4-folders.

It was also curious that after copy and paste the tools from the origin root-folder into the “open Data folder”, the tools were available/visible again.

It remains mystery, why after that execution not all ex4-files will show again their icons in the origin-folder as before the update, even they are available in the navigator.

Btw, I discovered some folders called "MetaQuotes" on different root-locations which contains any mystery files and folders, I do not know anything about. Please refer to the pic.

Any ideas?
Thanks for help in advance.
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Ivan and his clowns are going to cause more troubles

https://forum.mql4.com/73563

New Empty4 4 build 1010: New opportunities of MQL4
Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Thursday, August 18, 2016. The new version features the following changes:
New Empty4 4 build 1010: New opportunities of MQL4
Empty4 4 platform update is to be released on Thursday, August 18, 2016. The new version features the following changes:
1. Terminal: Fixed an error which prevented execution of MQL4 applications in terminals running in 32-bit Windows 10, build 1607.
2. Terminal: Fixed occasional incorrect display of the Search and Chat buttons.
3. Terminal: Fixed occasional duplicate welcome-emails delivered to the terminal when opening a demo account.
4. MQL4: Added new 'void *' pointers to enable users to create abstract collections of objects. A pointer to an object of any class can be saved to this type of variable. It is recommended to use the operator dynamic_cast<class name *>(void * pointer) in order to cast back. If conversion is not possible, the result is NULL.
5. MQL4: Added support for the operator [ ] for strings. The operator enables users to get a symbol from a string by index. If the specified index is outside the string, the result is 0.
6. MQL4: The CopyXXX function that copies history and tick data has become faster.
7. MQL4: Fixed deletion of multiple graphical objects with the specified prefix using the ObjectDeleteAll function. Before the update, the remaining objects could be displayed in a wrong order after the execution of this function.
8. MQL4: Fixed occasional incorrect order of graphical objects display after changing the timeframe.
9. Hosting: During terminal synchronization with the virtual server, charts without Expert Advisors are ignored now, even if custom indicators are running on these charts. If you need to migrate a custom indicator, run it on the chart of an "empty" Expert Advisor that does not perform operations. Such an Expert Advisor can be easily generated using the MQL4 Wizard in MetaEditor by selecting "Expert Advisor: template". This update is to ensure that indicators are migrated on purpose.
10. Hosting: You can now synchronize Expert Advisors and custom indicators whose names contain non-Latin characters (e.g. Cyrillic or Chinese characters).
11. Fixed errors reported in crash logs.
The update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.
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I guess it's time to give it a proper funeral...

MetaQuotes abandons Empty4, turns entirely to MT5 trading platform

https://smnweekly.com/2016/11/15/metaqu ... -platform/
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rangerlp » Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:10 pm wrote:I guess it's time to give it a proper funeral...

MetaQuotes abandons Empty4, turns entirely to MT5 trading platform

https://smnweekly.com/2016/11/15/metaqu ... -platform/

Yup, just saw that too....and just after I started getting good at MQL4 :-(

At least on the positive side, it looks like much of the coding is the same.

I doubt they will be able to ditch Empty4 entirely as long as the majority of brokers are still using/supporting it. So it might be a long time before anything concrete actually happens.

I work in I.T. and Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP in 2014 and I still have clients that use it and intend to use it for the foreseeable future.
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Teamleader of the MT5 beta-tester group leaving the final sign-off meeting...
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