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8 years ago Sorry for the delay in replying but I'm tied up on another project.
When I have time, I'll do a wiki for the project, but for the moment, look at the bottom of https://github.com/OpenTrading/OTMql4Py/ which itself is another bug: the formatting is broken. It will give you a little explananation of the prefixes and conventions.
The idea in the Lib code is to wrap the bare Mql4 calls in code that makes them more reliable: looks for error conditions, retries on network errors etc. The prefix of a letter distinguishes the wrapped funtion from the Mql4, and at the same time, indicates the type of the return value. Putting OT in the names is basically a consquence of Mql having one gloabl namespace.
The OTMql4Lib is just a common library from the other projects like OTMql4Py...
Hello, i am impressed from your library, but i have silly question, it is possible to document all supported ZMQ/or any MQ commands that i can post to library? Currently i spent 4 hours of debugging code and i only managed how to modify order , i dont understand bOTModifyOrder, why prefixes as "j", "b", "gOT", and etc. Can you give little explananation why prefixes and messages? Also mabye it should be better to remap names to something more logical? Metatrader function is OrderModify, why not generalize it like
exec|EURUSD....|0|12345678|bridge|OrderModify|actual args send to original MT4 function. So users dont have to debug whole code how each message works? Thanks a lot for your response.
Or maybe make some include file where are mappings string -> constants, for example
define CMD_ORDER_MODIFY = 'bOTModifyOrder';