Please see the mq4 file attached below.
- if it is interesting for them personally, or
- if it is interesting for many members of this forum.
Freelance section of the forum should be used in most of the cases.
What is good about your indicator?
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- Open the indicator file in your preferred code editor.
- Change the file extension from ".mq4" to ".mq5".
- Update the copyright information at the top of the file to reflect the conversion to MT5.
- Replace the following MQL4 functions with their MQL5 equivalents:
- OnInit() → OnInitialize()
- OnCalculate() → OnCalculate(const int total, const int passed, const datetime& time[], const double& open[], const double& high[], const double& low[], const double& close[], const long& tick_volume[], const long& volume[], const int& spread[])
- iHigh() → iHighest()
- iLow() → iLowest()
- Update the ObjectCreate and ObjectSet functions to use the MQL5 syntax. For example:
- ObjectCreate("HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0); → ObjectCreate(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0);
- ObjectSet("HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner); → ObjectSetInteger(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner);
- Replace the CurTime() function with TimeCurrent() .
- Update the IndicatorCounted() function to counted_bars = prev_calculated; .
- Save the file with the ".mq5" extension.
- Compile.
- if it is interesting for them personally, or
- if it is interesting for many members of this forum.
Freelance section of the forum should be used in most of the cases.
What is good about your indicator?
I've personally used this indicator to set the length of the price change from opening to closing so it's easier for me to look at this price value easily, for example, for XAU/USD it changes $15 so I set the grid value to align with the change value. I don't know if this's interesting for the forum members or not, I hope it is if the members expect for an indicator like I said. Thanks, Oleksandr Medviediev.
You can convert your indicator yourself:
- Open the indicator file in your preferred code editor.
- Change the file extension from ".mq4" to ".mq5".
- Update the copyright information at the top of the file to reflect the conversion to MT5.
- Replace the following MQL4 functions with their MQL5 equivalents:
- OnInit() → OnInitialize()
- OnCalculate() → OnCalculate(const int total, const int passed, const datetime& time[], const double& open[], const double& high[], const double& low[], const double& close[], const long& tick_volume[], const long& volume[], const int& spread[])
- iHigh() → iHighest()
- iLow() → iLowest()
- Update the ObjectCreate and ObjectSet functions to use the MQL5 syntax. For example:
- ObjectCreate("HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0); → ObjectCreate(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0);
- ObjectSet("HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner); → ObjectSetInteger(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner);
- Replace the CurTime() function with TimeCurrent() .
- Update the IndicatorCounted() function to counted_bars = prev_calculated; .
- Save the file with the ".mq5" extension.
- Compile.
This is very interesting. Have you tried following your advice yourself?
You can convert your indicator yourself:
- Open the indicator file in your preferred code editor.
- Change the file extension from ".mq4" to ".mq5".
- Update the copyright information at the top of the file to reflect the conversion to MT5.
- Replace the following MQL4 functions with their MQL5 equivalents:
- OnInit() → OnInitialize()
- OnCalculate() → OnCalculate(const int total, const int passed, const datetime& time[], const double& open[], const double& high[], const double& low[], const double& close[], const long& tick_volume[], const long& volume[], const int& spread[])
- iHigh() → iHighest()
- iLow() → iLowest()
- Update the ObjectCreate and ObjectSet functions to use the MQL5 syntax. For example:
- ObjectCreate("HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0); → ObjectCreate(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0);
- ObjectSet("HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner); → ObjectSetInteger(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner);
- Replace the CurTime() function with TimeCurrent() .
- Update the IndicatorCounted() function to counted_bars = prev_calculated; .
- Save the file with the ".mq5" extension.
- Compile.
I did it following your guidance carefully but it doesn't work and shows 91 errors, 21 warnings and I don't know how to correct the errors as I have no coding knowledge at all. So what I tried to do is Find & Replace by finding the functions where you told me to replace.
Please see the edited file below and hope you help correct:
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Horizontal_Grid_Lines.mq5 | //| Copyright 2015, MetaQuotes Software Corp. | //| http://www.mql5.com | //| Edits and Improvements: File45 | //| https://www.mql5.com/en/users/file45/publications&nbsp; | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ #property copyright "Copyright 2015, MetaQuotes Software Corp." #property link "http://www.mql5.com" #property version "3.00" #property strict #property indicator_chart_window //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ enum LW { One = 1, Two = 2, Three= 3, Four = 4, Five = 5, }; // DEFAULT INPUTS : START input int HGrid_Weeks = 10; // Weeks input double HGrid_Pips = 15.0; // H-Grid Size input color HLine_2=MidnightBlue; // H-Grid 1 Round Number Color input LW Line_2_Width=1; // H-Grid 1 Width input ENUM_LINE_STYLE Line_2_Style=STYLE_DOT; // H-Grid 1 Style input color HLine_1=MidnightBlue; // H-Grid 2 Non Round Number Color input LW Line_1_Width=1; // H-Grid 2 Width input ENUM_LINE_STYLE Line_1_Style=STYLE_DOT; // H-Grid 2 Style input string H_Grid="hg"; // Label Text input bool Show_Label=true; // Label Visible input color Font_Color=DodgerBlue; // Label Color input int Font_Size = 11; // Font Size input bool Font_Bold = false; // Font Bold input int Font_Corner = 1; // Corner input int Left_Right = 25; // Left - Right input int Up_Down = 190; // Up - Down // DEFAULT INPUTS : END string HGrid_text; string FB; bool firstTime=true; datetime lastTime=0; //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Custom indicator initialization function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int OnInitialize() { firstTime=true; switch(Font_Bold) { case 0 : FB = "Arial"; break; case 1 : FB = "Arial Bold"; break; } return(INIT_SUCCEEDED); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Custom indicator iteration function | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ int OnCalculate (const int total, const int passed, const datetime& time[], const double& open[], const double& high[], const double& low[], const double& close[], const long& tick_volume[], const long& volume[], const int& spread[]) { ObjectCreate(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJ_LABEL, 0, 0, 0; ObjectSetInteger(chart_ID, "HGrid_txt", OBJPROP_CORNER, Font_Corner); ObjectSet("HGrid_txt",OBJPROP_XDISTANCE,Left_Right); ObjectSet("HGrid_txt",OBJPROP_YDISTANCE,Up_Down); if(Show_Label==1) { ObjectSetText("HGrid_txt",H_Grid+": "+DoubleToString(HGrid_Pips,1),Font_Size,FB,Font_Color); } else { ObjectSetText("HGrid_txt",""); } int counted_bars = prev_calculated; if(true /*lastTime == 0 || TimeCurrent() - lastTime > 5*/) { firstTime= false; lastTime = TimeCurrent(); if(HGrid_Weeks>0 && HGrid_Pips*10>0) { double weekH = iHighest( NULL, PERIOD_W1, 0 ); double weekL = iLowest( NULL, PERIOD_W1, 0 ); for(int i=1; i<HGrid_Weeks; i++) { weekH = MathMax( weekH, iHighest( NULL, PERIOD_W1, i ) ); weekL = MathMin( weekL, iLowest( NULL, PERIOD_W1, i ) ); } double pipRange=HGrid_Pips *10*Point; if(Symbol()=="GOLD" || Symbol()=="XAUUSD") { pipRange=pipRange*10.0; } double topPips = (weekH + pipRange) - MathMod( weekH, pipRange ); double botPips = weekL - MathMod( weekL, pipRange ); for(double p=botPips; p<=topPips; p+=pipRange) { string gridname="grid_"+DoubleToStr(p,Digits); ObjectCreate(gridname,OBJ_HLINE,0,0,p); double pp=p/Point; //int pInt = MathRound(pp); int pInt=StrToInteger(DoubleToStr(pp,0)); int mod=100; if(Symbol()=="GOLD" || Symbol()=="XAUUSD") mod=1000; if((pInt%mod)==0) { ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_COLOR,HLine_2); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_STYLE,Line_2_Style); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_WIDTH,Line_2_Width); } else { ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_COLOR,HLine_1); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_STYLE,Line_1_Style); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_WIDTH,Line_1_Width); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_PRICE1,p); ObjectSet(gridname,OBJPROP_BACK,true); } } } } return(rates_total); } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| | //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ void OnDeinit(const int reason) { for(int i=ObjectsTotal()-1; i>=0; i--) { string name=ObjectName(i); if(StringFind(name,"grid_")>=0) ObjectDelete(name); } ObjectDelete("HGrid_txt"); return; } //+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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