Make Buttons Work on MQL5 backtest

[Osazee Asikhemhen]

Hello friends

Please I'm trying to make my gui buttons work on MT5 backtest

Below is the code I used

Please help. Thanks

long   lparam = 0;
double dparam = 0.0;
string sparam = "";
	
sparam = "btnLines";
if( bool( ObjectGetInteger( 0, sparam, OBJPROP_STATE ) ) )
    OnChartEvent( CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_CLICK, lparam, dparam, sparam );

sparam = "btnActivate"
if( bool( ObjectGetInteger( 0, sparam, OBJPROP_STATE ) ) 
    OnChartEvent( CHARTEVENT_OBJECT_CLICK, lparam, dparam, sparam );

[Paul Anscombe]

Osazee Asikhemhen:

Hello friends

Please I'm trying to make my gui buttons work on MT5 backtest

Below is the code I used

Please help. Thanks

chart events are not supported in the strategy tester

[Osazee Asikhemhen]

Paul Anscombe #:

chart events are not supported in the strategy tester

That means I can't use buttons on strategy tester?

[Fernando Carreiro]

Osazee Asikhemhen #:  That means I can't use buttons on strategy tester?

Correct, but there is a partial work-around you can use. The code below is for MQL4 but you can adjust it for MQL5 ...

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Chart Event For MT4 Backtester

Fernando Carreiro, 2016.04.03 15:40

I know this is a an old thread, but I recently needed to debug some of my code that implements "buttons" to control certain aspects of an EA I was coding and had need for it to work in the Strategy Tester.

The solution I came up with was to check the button states on every incoming tick when the EA was in Visual Mode.

In other words, something like this:

void CheckResetButton()
{
   if( bool( ObjectGetInteger( 0, idResetButtonObject, OBJPROP_STATE ) ) )
   {
      Print( "Reset Button Clicked" );
      ObjectSetInteger( 0, idResetButtonObject, OBJPROP_STATE, false );
   }
}

void OnTick()
{
   // Only needed in Visual Testing Mode
   if( IsVisualMode() )
   {
      // Check Chart Buttons in Visual Mode
      CheckResetButton();
   }

   return;
}

[Fernando Carreiro]

And please don't add so much white-space in your posts. I have edited them and removed the extra blank lines.