Print Message, Current Symbol

[ezzakt]

Hello,

short question for the Alert Message block (Which I assume is an Alarm Message popping up)

I want to have an EA run on many charts and pop up an alarm if a condition is reached. How can I include the symbol name in the Alarm message so if an alarm pops up I can see a text specified with the Symbol name after.

Cheers

[fxDreema]

That's a shame - the most basic thing is not included somewhere in Condition block. Now I can suggest this: http://fxdreema.com/shared/aEO5e954, but I will include it later (these days), because now I have some other things to do.

[ezzakt]

Great thanks, that helps me out for now

[ezzakt]

It seems it leads to an error compiling

I have it in 2 blocks, so its 2xtimes the error message

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[fxDreema]

" and then " and then + and then Symbol() and then + and then " and then "

[ezzakt]

It seems "+Symbol()+" is accepted

Trying this one when markets are online

[ezzakt]

jepp, copied and pasted out of your example and double checked I do it the same as you did, still that error appeared
Note sure what it will do with just "" for one time !?

[fxDreema]

There is a function named Alert() in MQL4. Here is how it works:

Alert("some text here");

or...

Alert("some text here"+", and some other text here");

or...

Alert(Symbol());

or...

Alert("my current symbol is: "+Symbol());

or...

Alert(""+Symbol()+"");

So, + is like glue, and you can put as many things as you want to display, one after another with + in between. Strings (texts) are always with " in the beginning and " in the end. Digits are not.

Alert(12345+"some text here");

will alert this: 12345some text here

Text in Condition outputs what is in the field, but it automatically puts " in the beginning and " at the end of it. So, if you write just Symbol() it will become...

Alert("Symbol()");

and this will alert: Symbol()

but Symbol() is a function and at the end it must be executed as such, something like

Alert(Symbol());

but because the generator puts " and ", then we need to do some thick until we have this:

Alert(""+Symbol()+"");

and this will output: EURUSD

[ezzakt]

Thx for the examples provided
Will play around with them

For your information, using "+Symbol()+" as text as in the example from you worked now.
So had to remove 1x the "" to have it compile and it alerts me visual in MT4.

Great, cheers

[Trader3487]

I put "+Symbol()+" with only 1 set of quotes but it isn't printing the symbol. See attached screenshot. Thank you.

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[ezzakt]

see screenshot

Just as a comparison, if thats not printing, I dont know it ^^

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