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| Author: | VirtualFM [ Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Help making Buttons and other input fields on chart |
Hello guys! Sorry for not hanging around so much on the last couple years, been busy making my own stuff (some would say I am just wasting time, because sometimes I have those "brilliant ideas" and a while later I browse through the forum and understand someone had that idea some months/years ago!) (for example, a couple weeks ago i had this "brilliant" idea where i would close obviously loosing positions (after a bunch of rules going the bad way) as long as there was a positive profit for the day, so that psychologically there was no loss on that day but still keep closing crappy trades. So I would have to organize opened positions in arrays, something I never dealt with, and order them, and close those that would be in range, etc... That took almost a whole week of thinking, studying and experimenting, and then yesterday i found this, which has pretty similar ideas and would have helped me a lot http://www.stevehopwoodforex.com/phpBB3 ... 57#p137367) Anyway... I wanted to put some buttons on the chart in order to quickly change some parameters, instead of open the EA properties and look for the input. And I realize that we can do this now, making buttons and some other fields, but everything I saw looked overcomplicated or just didn't work. For example, I followed this simple tutorial http://automatedtradingsoftware.co.uk/h ... n-in-mql4/ and couldn't see anything happening anywhere! So, for those in the know, do you know some examples, or could you point me to some where I could see an actual example of a working button, or a radio button, or a pull-down menu, if possible, or a field where we could input numbers? Or have you stumble upon some ea/indicator on this site that has such things? Thank you so much. |
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| Author: | Lowphat [ Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Help making Buttons and other input fields on chart |
Code: Select all |
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| Author: | milanese [ Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Help making Buttons and other input fields on chart |
you can too look into the HiddenPendingEA code it has some button functions... Cheers Tommaso |
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| Author: | VirtualFM [ Sun Sep 11, 2016 5:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Help making Buttons and other input fields on chart |
Hi Lowphat, thanks a lot for the code. It works, but even if it's really nice to stare at "Boobs" for a long time, I find this completely overcomplicated and counterintuitive. I went through "ChartObjectPanel.mqh" and "ChartObjectsTxtControls.mqh" and, boy, there is a ton of stuff I don't get over there! Thank you as well, Milanese. Your example looks like you made "your own buttons" in a time when there were no button functionality available. And they look much more understandable than the official mumbo-jumbo. I will study them and try to make them clickable in a way that we see they are in a clicked state (which doesn't seem to be the case now, as you just want them to perform actions as soon as clicked). Oh well, but not this weekend anymore. Cheers! |
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