MT4 MetaEditor Hotkey Problems -- SOLVED
Can't reproduce your issue. Provide more details: Windows version, source code, metaeditor language.
I've done a bit more experimenting trying to figure this problem out. I've installed MT4 from another broker and don't have the problem there, so its not a Windows 10 taking Ctrl+H away issue.
I've also tried uninstalling my broker's MT4, then re-installing. Problem persists.
Also I've discovered that it's not locking up, instead its accessing the search function in the upper right-hand corner of Metaeditor, rather than bringing up the Find & Replace dialog box.
The strange thing is, whatever I type does not appear in that search box yet if I subsequently hit Enter it will search the script or Indicator for whatever I typed. If I then exit Metaeditor
and re-start it, what I typed for the search now appears in that search box in the upper right-hand corner. This is just bizarre behavior. What would cause Ctrl+H to re-map to access the
functionality of that search bar. It would make marginally more sense if for some reason Ctrl+F did that. Yet Ctrl+F works just fine.
I'm running Windows 10.
Metaeditor is version 5.00 build 1342
Language used is US English.
Problem solved!!
This is a good case of not having sufficient information from MetaTrader / MQL5 Ltd and having to dig until you stumble across the solution.
I have an 8 monitor trading station where all of the monitors act as one very large, seamless monitor. Top-left is 0, 0 and bottom-right
is 1080, 5760. At some point, and I do not know when this happens, Metaeditor saved to the config folder a metaeditor.ini file. This file
does not exist when you first install MT4. There were two entries in this file under the [Find] section that made no sense. Deleting those two
entries fixed the problem and Ctrl+H now works correctly. Those entries were:
Dlg_158_left = -54
Dlg_158_top = -1195
Shutting down Metaeditor, editing metatrader.ini with Notepad to remove those two lines, saving the modifications and then restarting Metaeditor corrected the problem.
Hi Tim, I am still facing control+F problem, no search box pop up. I have no prob with control+H
my window 10
version 5 build 2302
I have 4 screens I am not sure if that is why but is there a way to set where the search bos pop up?
Thanks!
Problem solved!!
This is a good case of not having sufficient information from MetaTrader / MQL5 Ltd and having to dig until you stumble across the solution.
I have an 8 monitor trading station where all of the monitors act as one very large, seamless monitor. Top-left is 0, 0 and bottom-right
is 1080, 5760. At some point, and I do not know when this happens, Metaeditor saved to the config folder a metaeditor.ini file. This file
does not exist when you first install MT4. There were two entries in this file under the [Find] section that made no sense. Deleting those two
entries fixed the problem and Ctrl+H now works correctly. Those entries were:
Dlg_158_left = -54
Dlg_158_top = -1195
Shutting down Metaeditor, editing metatrader.ini with Notepad to remove those two lines, saving the modifications and then restarting Metaeditor corrected the problem.
Dlg_158_left = -54
Dlg_158_top = -1195
A dialog was moved off-screen but still had focus.
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I am running version 5.00 Build 1342 of the Metaeditor. Much of the editing capability does not work and I do not understand why.
Ctrl-A works properly and selects all of the lines of code and Ctrl-F does bring up the Find dialog box. But Ctrl-H does not work
properly. When I press it no dialog box appears, instead the buttons to maximize, minimize or close the file currently being edited
are grayed out and pressing any key simply causes a beep to be played as if the keyboard buffer was full or something. Has anyone
else experienced this problem? If so what did you need to do to correct it? Is there a way, other than doing a re-install of MT4, to
reset this functionality?