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Author:  garyfritz [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
I must have something wrong with my install. F1 does nothing -- no popup, no nothing. I also don't get parameter hints. (I assume that's supposed to be activated by Ctrl-Space or similar?) Ctrl-Space displays a list of keywords, but I don't think they're MQL.

I tried exiting and restarting and that didn't help.
Author:  w633 [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
garyfritz wrote:I must have something wrong with my install. F1 does nothing -- no popup, no nothing. I also don't get parameter hints. (I assume that's supposed to be activated by Ctrl-Space or similar?) Ctrl-Space displays a list of keywords, but I don't think they're MQL.

I tried exiting and restarting and that didn't help.
it's really weird, do you extract the whole thing into a folder and execute the scite.exe? is your file being recognized as MQL? does everything work after you go to "Language" and select "MQL"?
Author:  garyfritz [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
Duh!! That's my problem. I'd opened up a new file to experiment in, and hadn't yet saved it with a .mq4 filename. So naturally the editor didn't know it was MQL. Save it as *.mq4, or open a *.mq4 file, and F1 works fine. I also get the popup parameter hints &etc properly.

Ctrl-Space is a bit more interesting, but I don't know what it's *supposed* to do...
Author:  w633 [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
garyfritz wrote:Duh!! That's my problem. I'd opened up a new file to experiment in, and hadn't yet saved it with a .mq4 filename. So naturally the editor didn't know it was MQL. Save it as *.mq4, or open a *.mq4 file, and F1 works fine. I also get the popup parameter hints &etc properly.

Ctrl-Space is a bit more interesting, but I don't know what it's *supposed* to do...
The first few entries seem to be a bloop on the API help file, I'll register it as a bug and resolve it next time. Thanks for testing out!
Author:  NeoTrader [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
hi w633,

F1 and CTRL+Space works fine for me too...just to give response...the code completion is also a great feature and allows to shorten the typing... ;)
When I type a function and open the parenthesis it shows a info for this function. is there any possibility to see this info again after I closed the parenthesis. a shortkey or something like that?

Thanks in advance,

NeoTrader
Author:  w633 [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
NeoTrader wrote:hi w633,

F1 and CTRL+Space works fine for me too...just to give response...the code completion is also a great feature and allows to shorten the typing... ;)
When I type a function and open the parenthesis it shows a info for this function. is there any possibility to see this info again after I closed the parenthesis. a shortkey or something like that?

Thanks in advance,

NeoTrader
NP, Ctrl+Shift+Space, it's called "Show Calltips" under "Edit". Of course check the reference doc will give you thorough explanations.
Author:  NeoTrader [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
hi w633,
w633 wrote:NP, Ctrl+Shift+Space, it's called "Show Calltips" under "Edit". Of course check the reference doc will give you thorough explanations.
Doesn't work for me... :(
I can press Ctrl+Shift+Space as much as i want...mark the keyword...or set the cursor on it...or try it direct from the menu ...Ctrl+Shift+Space seems to do nothing ...:(

but thanks for your fast response.. ;)

happy trading,

NeoTrader

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Author:  AnotherBrian [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
AnotherBrian wrote:
w633 wrote:

What criminal do you use? Would you provide what's the title text on the Empty4 window, similar to what Steve took on previous post?
PFGBest - this is the demo, I also have a live account. Should I try this on my FXCM demo account on the same machine?
DUH - I downloaded the software again, unzipped and copied to my target directory - BAM - works now.
Long story short on the fix - Probably didn't install it correctly, possibly downloaded the earlier version. All in all it was a false alarm.

Thanks for the tool, and the time spent on this non-sense issue I had.
Author:  lucklogic [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
Hi,

Sorry to be a pain but on the topic of Help (F1) I get the following :


Try as I might I cannot get the Web page to open up with the requested info ? :?

What do I have to do ? :cry:
Author:  garyfritz [ Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Just made an IDE for MQL4
NeoTrader wrote:Doesn't work for me... :(
I can press Ctrl+Shift+Space as much as i want...mark the keyword...or set the cursor on it...or try it direct from the menu ...Ctrl+Shift+Space seems to do nothing ...:(
Put your cursor inside the parentheses, or to the right of the open-paren if you haven't typed the close-paren yet. It looks like F1 only works when the cursor is on the function name (left of the open paren) and Ctrl-Shift-Space only works when you're to the right of the open paren.

And make sure you're editing a .mq4 file. I've heard some yahoo tried it with a non-mq4 file. :oops:
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