You need to use ShellExecuteW, the unicode version.
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Hi
I am totally new to MQL4, but I am learning. What I want to achieve is to execute a Python script when a certain event occur.
I got the event and everything done, but I can't seem to get the MQL4 implementation working, so I can in fact execute it. This is the last piece in my puzzle.
So I've been Google'ing around, and it appears that you can import a shell32.dll Windows file, and use a method from there called ShellExecuteA, but I know very little about Windows programming, and neither can I get a "demo" code to work.
Can it be because I am using a 64 bit version of Windows?
This is the code I've found: