Gnome Stock Ticker (gtik@Dread.net)
By Jayson Lorenzen jslorenzen@earthlink.net, and Jim Garrison garrison@users.sourceforge.net,
and Rached Blili striker@Dread.net
NEWS (2/13/2002):
Yahoo recently changed the format of their stock information web page. This change broke Gtik's ability to retrieve stock data, thus the "No data available" error message that has been scrolling on tickers the world over. Gtik has already been patched to fix this problem temporarily. The fix is only available in CVS right now. I'm sure packages will be available with the next release of gnome-applets.
We're currently working on a more permanent fix which should also address some of the more frequently requested features. We appologize for the inconvenience.
NEWS (9/27/2000):
Get the newest version of Gnome-applets. Gtik is included! Note that the GNOME Stock Ticker Applet has moved to a new location in the applet menus. It is now under NETWORK.
NEWS (8/27/2000):
Gtik 1.2 has been released! This version of Gtik incorporates all the features previously found in the development version. It is also the last release we will be putting out since we have been accepted into GNOME CVS!!! Yes, we should be distributed right along with GNOME 1.4. We're psyched.
Anyway, from this point forward, we'll be releasing occasional snapshots of the CVS version of Gtik, but anyone can build it straight from CVS.
Newer features include:
New and improved properties dialog.
Downloads Screen Shots
Contact the developers by sending mail to: gtik@Dread.net
If you do not have the ghttp libraries installed, they can be found at these locations:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest/sources/libghttp-1.0.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest/redhat/i386/Base/libghttp-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
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Gnome Stock Ticker (gtik) Release Notes
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Gnome Stock Ticker is a Scrolling Stock ticker Applet for the Gnome Panel. This uses the GHTTP lib to request a page from Yahooo finance for the stock symbols you enter into the properties dialog. It saves the file to your $HOME dir and then parses the HTML to get the data it will scroll. The Function that actuall grabs the page was copied out of the old Slash Applet. The rest is written by me.
The update frequency and symbols to display data for are configurable via a handy properties dialog.
The GHTTP libraries are required to run this.
HISTORY:
May 24 PM release 0.01b4 Another bug fix and make environment change release.
May 24 AM release 0.01b3 bug fix and make environment change release.
May 18 initial release 0.01b2
New Items or fixes in the 0.01b4 Release:
1. Fixes warning messages when building 2. Makes the config file a hidden file in the home directory. (~/.gtik.conf)
New Items or fixes in the 0.01b3 Release:
1. Fixed Seg faults when removed from the Panel. It no longer seg faults when removing from the panel
2. Fixed seg fault when saving properties settings when ran for the first time or when the user's gnome properties directory does not contain an entry for the ticker symbols.
3. (last but no way least) Jim Garrison got busy and has totally redone the make environment and is currently attacking some bugs and features. Thanks to Jim, it now Builds without the Gnome Core source tree, as I had been doing.
gtik_002b4.tar.gz source , does not require gnome core tree to build.
gtik_002b3_src.tar.gz source , does not require gnome core tree to build.
gtik_002b2_s7_bin.tar.gz Binary built on Slackware 7. (also ran on Current Debian rel)
gtik_001b2_src.tar.gz source , requires complete gnome core tree to build, until I learn to do this differently.