Indicator Tester Block Usage

[dscoles]

I am attempting to add my first custom indicator using the Indicator Tester block.
Two questions:

1. I click on "Click here to add customer indicators" and add my indicators (2 of them). I click UPDATE on the "add new indicator screen" after finding them on my disk and adding them. I close the "add new indicator screen" using the top-right "X" button. The indicator tester continues to display "there are no custom indicators yet." Can you tell me what step I am missing?

2. I noticed someplace that there is a notice about EX4 files, suggesting that we review the bottom half of a page (I can no longer seem to find the link): Can you tell me what mechanism can we use to use EX4 files? Do we somehow need to create a wrapper around them?

Thank you,
Dwight

[fxDreema]

"Indicator tester" is a block that can be used to visualize values on the chart, similar to indicator. This block is to be used when you don't have an idea what the custom indicator buffers are giving you. It's an alternative to the native Comment for example, but it also prints the history of values as a line. This line is created from multiple small trendlines, so it's not a good idea to use this block in normal situation. Use it only to see what is going on in custom indicators or other values.
After you add a new indicator, reopen the properties window of "Indicator tester"

EX4 files are all that MetaTrader 4 needs to run the expert advisor. This is it's compiled version, it's "executable"... the expert advisor itself. What is needed is to put it in the directory where other Experts are, open MetaTrader 4 and double-click on it in "Navigator" or backtest it.

[dscoles]

Hi Radoslav,

Thank you for your quick reply. Ha... now that I go back into my fxDreema project I see that the two indicators that I supplied are available for use?

The question I have related to EX4 indicators is this: How do I use one in a block within fxDreema when I do not know how to send the inputs or receive the outputs since I do not have the source code (MQ4)?

Thank you.
Dwight

[fxDreema]

Add them manually. The whole idea of adding custom indicators in fxDreema is to ger their input parameters and buffers from the code and nothing more. I don't even store what's uploaded and in future they will not even be uploaded. Unfortunately the .ex4 file is too encoded and I can read this data from there.

Adding data from custom indicators is... when you understand it, it's easy, but you should be careful to put correct number of parameters and correct datatypes. Here is more: https://fxdreema.com/documentation/work ... indicators

[dscoles]

Thank you... time to play!

[dscoles]

I found the location ... the load indicators is under the indicator drop-down at the top of the screen...

[dscoles]

Thank you for that find on the MA_MODE...

However,
One of the indicator parameters is missing from the screen... ma_RISOMA_MODE.

Should I be able to just manually modify the code to include that value?

[dscoles]

The third item...

found the indicator load.

[dscoles]

Also taken care of...