Duncan McQueen

As far as changing parameters to EAs - click on it and hit your F2 button.
It should allow you to change it.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Branislav Karic <bbranac (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Codewavers is still alive and kicking :-), I simply clicked on that link you
> posted in your message and their web site came up in a sec.
> They have a Crossover for Mac too. Now, I have been running MT4 on Linux
> without problems, had to copy two dlls from Windows machine, that Wine
> doesn't have, and few fonts also, and after that MT4 starts and runs as it
> does under Windows. There is a small issue though, with setting parameters'
> values for indicators, you can't do it from a dialog box for some reason,
> the only way is to change them directly in the source code of an indicator
> or EA.
>
> I don't have any experience with MAC but if you say that it's based on Linux
> than I guess you can go ahead and install MT4 using wine, or Crossover for
> MAC which probably has more capabilities.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Charles Wilkes <cfw123 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
>>
>> Now that I have my new IMac running with a little more knowledge on my
>> part (read some books on how to convert to a Mac from a PC), I really
>> (repeat "really") like it -- my son was absolutely correct in making the
>> switch. As a retired IBM Researcher, I had raised him on PCs (he is now an
>> MD), but now he has converted me to the Mac -- never thought it would
>> happen.
>>
>> The Mac is based on Linux, which was it's origin in history. Wine was a
>> way to run Windows on Linux, which once Mac went to the Intel processor,
>> became possible to use to run "some" PC applications direct on a Mac without
>> an emulator, dual boot, or whatever. This interests me very much since the
>> only PC application I will be running is MT4, as I will have Mac
>> applications covering everything else I do, which is mostly email anyway.
>> But Wine was produced by CodeWeavers, which at least used to be at
>> www.codeweavers.com and is still reported to be at that site by Google.
>> However it just won't come up on the Internet, and I wonder if they are
>> still in business.
>>
>> Does anyone here know if they still exist? I would sure like to check
>> out MT4 on Wine, as it would be a big help in my total conversion to Mac.
>> Since you say MT4 should run on Linux (server problem but not client
>> problem?), there is a real possibility that it would run under Wine -- if I
>> could find it, or get a copy of it (I always pay for software if it is for
>> sale -- I don't run bootleg software). I know I could run PC
>> programs under a VM virtual machine, or via a dual boot, but would prefer to
>> go totally on the Mac if possible, reserving running real PC code only if no
>> other choice.
>>
>> Charles Wilkes
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Eben Brand <eben.brand (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Charles,
>>>
>>> Not sure if it's been said before, but you can also run Windows in a
>>> Virtual
>>> Machine on Mac OS. I am considering something like that for when I
>>> finally
>>> go live, except it will be on Linux on Normal PC Intel platform - Linux
>>> to
>>> give me security while connected to the internet, as well as stability,
>>> and
>>> then a virtual machine with XP, with Metatrader on XP. Would be
>>> interesting
>>> to see if anybody else has attempted this - theoretically it should work.
>>>
>>> I see on another list that some people are running simple EAs on MT
>>> client
>>> directly on Linux, within Wine, but seemingly there are also some issues,
>>> some ppl have found, although it seems to relate to MT server, not
>>> client.
>>> It's worth a shot getting off MS Oss... I have a rule that I don't want
>>> to
>>> run anything mission critical on a Windows platform - just not solid
>>> enough,
>>> I mean, for example - I set up my machines to let me know when there are
>>> updates - I then control WHEN and HOW I download and install, AND which
>>> updates. One day I got home, the PC was on, but none of my terminals were
>>> running - I also then saw that what Bill thought was a CRITICAL update,
>>> was
>>> worth re-booting my machine for... without my knowledge, or approval.
>>> That
>>> really annoyed me. I know, I can add the terminal shortcuts to the
>>> startup
>>> folder, but still - it could affect a few trades if the system is down
>>> for
>>> some time, esp some of the scalping type EAs.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Eben
>>>
>>> From: 4XONTARIO (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com [mailto:4XONTARIO (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Charles Wilkes
>>> Sent: 23 July 2008 03:50 PM
>>> To: 4XONTARIO (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
>>> Subject: Re: [4XONTARIO] Queston re MT4
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>