Hi folks,
Concentrating in trading and price movements only requires an easy platform to use, a platform that you can learn it in a few period of time and to easily memorize how to access its features and interface!
One of the problems that faces the most of the users of any platforms is the language of its interface (Menus, Windows and Commands etc). Not all of us fluent (or like) the English language and the most of platforms speaks English!
MetaTrader terminal shipped with a list of languages that's rarely you'll not found your tongue language on them.
To get the list of the available languages and to change the language of the terminal interface you have to go to View menu and choose the Languages sub-menu which will drop down the list of the language to choose from (Figure 1).
Figure 1 - Languages menu
It's not a problem, you can use the Multi Language Pack software and compiler shipped with MetaTrader to build and add your language to the list and above all to make all the users of MetaTrader around the world to use your language.
Today we are going to learn step-by-step how to use MLP (Multi Language Pack) to create our own language pack.
You'll find the MLP program (mlp.exe) in the path of MetaTrader, you can browse there and double click it.
But the quick method is going to the View menu and choose the Languages sub-menu then click the last command Multilanguage Pack (Figure 1).
That will bring the MLP program which welcome you (Figure 2), click ok to dismiss the welcome window and you'll get the main window of the MLP (Figure 3).
As you can see in figure 3 the main window of the MLP is split to two parts; the left part is the list of the languages already installed which you can view and edit them. The right part is the editor window which display the editable strings of the language's Strings, Menus and Dialogs (Figure 4).
We are going to know everything about editing and adding languages using the MLP later in this article but let's know what's the programs we can change its language (Interface language) using the MLP program.
There are three programs that MLP working with their language files and enable you to edit them:
Terminal: This is the MetaTrader itself.
MetaEditor: The MetaQuotes Programming Language Editor (where your write your MQ4 programs).
Live update dialog: It's the dialog appears when there's a new version released in MetaQuotes server and the terminal wants to download it (Figure 5).
Each program of these programs has its own language file (.prl files) which you can find them in MetaTrader_installed_path/languages folder.
To open this files you have to go to the File menu in MLP program and choose Open Project command (or simple hit CTRL+O hot keys) then browser for the languages folder to open the project of the three projects you can edit.
Note: You'll find two another file types while you are browsing the languages folder:
.lng files: These are the files MLP saves each language to it, you can export/import these file to MLP and edit them.
.xml files: For the MetaEditor only you will find some of .xml files which contain the Dictionary (Help) translation for MetaEditor.
We are happy that we knew we can add our own language to MetaTrader program(s) and we are ready to learn more about the Multi Languages Pack. We will know all about the MLP in the next article.
I hope you find it a helpful article and wait your comment!