hey guys
i just happened to come across your site after a rather long time to see what kind of trouble came with the latest build and how do top coders cope with it.. and saw matt_32's fresh (!) post about the resizer
i had no idea the thing survived the past yrs.. haha, still seems to be of some use.. quite funny actually, given the sheer amount of changes they did since the resizer came out
i don't code much general stuff recently, but i'm spending a _lot_of_time_ on a weighted currency indices project.. classical offline charts stuff relying on .hst and a a few custom DLLs connected to a remote DB engine.. fortunately, i saw the changes coming with 509+ beta builds and was able to transit almost everything before the upgrade went public.
yeah, they messed up everything, forced upgrading and lack of an option to stay on the old road is unprecedentedly impertinent
..clearly a consequence of lacking competition (client) allowing MQ to tie brokerages down to a completely passive role (server).. remember, they're Russian, and Russians ain't dumb.. strategically, they always were, and still are, genial
(a honest compliment, not a slightest bit of anything foul meant here!!!).
BUT on the other side (hey Steve, don't ban me for this, just my opinion, lol)... from what i see, the changes made to mql are definitily positive, and consider this: MT5 has definitely turned out to be a giant commercial flop because of total incompatibility with existing codebase. Maybe i'm a hopeless dreamer, but if they FINALLY added custom timeframes, non-time-based charts, 64bit and multicore support, and dropped the misfit MT5 completely, we could stay with the current mql flavour (and enjoy compatibility at source level) for years, perhaps another decade.. i'm betting a bit it's the way they chose, they simply can't cut the Empty4 base off and if i'm right, then the recent change is the last big one for a long time. They won't commit the same self-destructing crime again, as they did with MT5. Scratching MT5 is what the current mess is all about.. they have virtually no other option and the way they go is perhaps their only way out. I guess the current Empty4 version will slowly grow up to date technologically, and become MT6 in foreseeable time. Some (temporarily dropped) features in earlier pre-600 betas clearly confirm my hypothesis.. but time will tell.. it always does
As a coder, I see minor problems with all that, as every single source code can be fixed rather easily.. for non-coding users, it's a major PITA right now. i really don't advocate MQ, in fact i hate their approach, but things must go forth, on all fronts.
ah, blabbered too much
great forum btw
keep going!!
J