turn iCustom(zigzag) to mql5 not working anymore

[Alessandro Mariani]

Hi, in these day im trying to study mql5 to pass to it i think in the next months. but several scripts are not working, including the ones that are supposed to work like this,

double zigzag=iCustom("EURUSD",PERIOD_M5,"ZigZag",16,5,3,0,1); 

Print("zigzag: ",zigzag);

it says this

2019.02.27 19:19:50.379 prova (EURUSD,M5)  cannot load custom indicator 'ZigZag' [4802]

on mt4 it worked but i have no idea how to fix it, maybe the path of the indicator?

[Fernando Morales]

Alessandro Mariani:

Hi, in these day im trying to study mql5 to pass to it i think in the next months. but several scripts are not working, including the ones that are supposed to work like this,

it says this

on mt4 it worked but i have no idea how to fix it, maybe the path of the indicator?

Using indicators in MQL5 is quite different than in MQL4

https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/31

[MITCHELL LATSKY REED]

Did you manage to get it working? :) 

[lippmaje]

you'll find the MT5 Zigzag indicators in the Examples folder. There's also a color version.

To get the handle:

input int      InpDepth=12;
input int      InpDeviation=5;
input int      InpBackstep=3;

int ZigzagHandle;

int OnInit()
  {
   ZigzagHandle=iCustom(_Symbol,_Period,"Examples/ZigZag",InpDepth,InpDeviation,InpBackstep);
   if(ZigzagHandle==INVALID_HANDLE) { Print("invalid Zigzag handle, error: ",_LastError); return INIT_FAILED; }
   return INIT_SUCCEEDED;
  }

[Vladimir Karputov]

Alessandro Mariani:

Hi, in these day im trying to study mql5 to pass to it i think in the next months. but several scripts are not working, including the ones that are supposed to work like this,

it says this

on mt4 it worked but i have no idea how to fix it, maybe the path of the indicator?

An example of working with the ZigZag indicator.