StockTicker Applet
StockTicker is a GNOME panel applet for displaying stock quotes and graphs. Quotes and performance graphs are retrieved over the net on a user-specified schedule. Both US and European stocks are supported.
Requirements
To use StockTicker, you must have:
- Gnome (including libghttp and pixbuf support)
- A net connection
Running StockTicker
Once installed (see the INSTALL instructions), the ticker can be added to the panel by running it (stockticker_applet). You may want to add it to your applet menu by running gmenu.
Getting new versions
The stockticker webpage can be found at:
http://stockticker.sourceforge.net
License and Disclaimer
StockTicker is Copyright (c) 2000 by Mike Oliphant. It may be used and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. All other brand and product names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.
These programs are distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this distribution; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Acknowledgments
Thanks go to:
- Yahoo, for providing such an easily accessible quote system
- Dj Padzensky, for example perl code to talk to Yahoo Finance
- All of the gtk+/gnome folks
- The authors of the stock gnome applets, for useful example code
- The authors of the ghttp library, for a nice, easy-to-use implementation
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Mike Oliphant (oliphant@gtk.org)