MQL4CSharpGenerator

This project is used in conjunction with MQL4CSharp to populate the MQL commands part of the application

Generated code is placed in the out directory.

First, scrapeDocs.py iterates over the MQL docs to create a JSON file of the functions included in "functionlist.txt". I've created a file called "fucntionlist-removed.txt" which is where I've put functions not currently support for various reasons (ie, I've removed stuff you may as well do in C#, and also a few others that were not passing the parse and not a high priority).

Once scapeDocs.py runs, it creates function.dump.json.

Then using jinja2 templates, I run the generate.py on the json to produce the code.

The following files are created:

MQL.cs

this is where the Metatrader functions are called from. In the MQL4CSharp project there is a Strategy type which extends MQL. You can also just extend MQL directly if you don't want to use the Strategy framework.

MQLCommand.cs

enum list of MQL Commands supported

mc_funcs.mqh

this converts the MQL command IDs into MQL command calls

mc_helpers.mqh

the enum conversion functions

mc_returns.mqh

this is a helper to decided which return function to call for a command based on the return type

You probably don't need to rerun this, just grab the mqh files and load them in your metatrader includes directory. I've already copied the C# code to the MQL4CSharp project.

At some stage I will probably tidy this all up..