Unable to attach an EA to a chart

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Unable to attach an EA to a chart

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Weird, and all of a sudden. I am on Eymon's VPS using his Windows 7 platform. I was going to update Slopey Peaky Bob to version 1W, but am unable to drag the EA onto the chart. I double clicked the EA - nothing, right click - nothing, hold-down click and drag - nothing. I tried File>Open Data Folder>Experts and deleted the mlqcache, closed everything down, then restarted Empty4. Nothing. I tried logging into the account again. It opens properly, but I still can't get the EA to load, not one bit. Tried a different chart - nothing. The Empty4 default EA's, such as MACD Sample, do open.

Any ideas? :arrrg: :arrrg: :arrrg: :arrrg:

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I get tired repeating this over and over ... there is an experts log.

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Oops. Here is the log. and a screen shot of the experts log.
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Typical problem.

Follow these steps exactly: http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 36#p163958

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Unable to attach an EA to a chart

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Thanks, but I tried that already. For good measure I just went through it again a couple more times.

Just for grins, I opened a demo on my Windows 10 system and could load it fine with the exact same EA, but doesn't seem to work on the VPS. Maybe just a coincidence. I usually download EAs through Windows 10 to my desktop, then copy and paste into the FPS Win 7 desktop. Just to make sure nothing was getting lost in translation, I downloaded SPB directly through the VPS. No help.

Grasping at straws, I also tried resetting the VPS server.

I do see that the diamond on the EA is grayed out. Not really sure what that means, but I opened the EA in the Empty4 editor, then tried compiling it but it stayed grayed out. I'm sure these are all futile gestures, but I wanted to try everything I could before posting here again.

I guess the next thing is to open a fresh new instance of Empty4 and reload everything.

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Your first screenie shows you are still trying to load an old, invalid template.
Your second screenie shows you don't have TDesk.mqh in your /include folder.

You don't want to try understand how all those thingies work, do you?

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