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Switching Profiles - Reason code changed from REASON_CHARTCLOSE to REASON_CLOSE - Now no difference between a Profile switch and a Terminal restart

Some time last year Metaquotes changed the OnDeinit reason code when switching Profiles from REASON_CHARTCLOSE to REASON_CLOSE I can't find this documented in any of the MT5 build release notes This means that a profile switch is now exactly the same as a Terminal close which is very odd When the

Adding MODE_TICKSIZE for Offline charts with new symbol names

Hello, I have a user that has crated some offline charts with new symbols, for instance "NONSTD_XAUUSD" Clearly there is no static market data configured for this symbol so calls like MarketInfo("NONSTD_XAUUSD", MODE_TICKSIZE); will then return 0 I searched the forum and found a couple of threads

"global initialization failed"

Does anyone know what could cause the "global initialization failed" error message

US vs UK Keyboard

Does anyone know if there is a way to detect the keyboard or current language settings without using DLL calls

When can we expect the next MetaTrader 4 Platform build ?

We haven't seen any changes since the 950 build on 22nd December 2015. Does anyone have any idea of when the next platform build might be released ? I'm asking this because I have a pending enhancement for querying the Windows Scaling that was implemented a few weeks ago

4K displays - Any way to query the windows desktop scaling value ?

Hello, I'm adding support for 4K displays and I have found that the windows desktop scaling has an effect on the text displays and dialogs I have created. The fixes are simple enough, however the changes need to be kept in line with the value of the desktop scaling size. Does anyone know if there is

Build 920 - Poor Startup and recompile performance since build 910

Re: Terminal: Optimized and accelerated the client terminal operation. I was hoping that the performance regression that was introduced in build 910 a couple of weeks back would be fixed in this 920 release. Since build 910 start-up of the terminal with 25 charts with 4 indicators each (100