# StockTicker Help

Copyright © 2000 by Mike Oliphant

# 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.

This is what StockTicker looks like running in the panel:

## Usage

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

- Details— opens the `Details` dialog

- Update— reloads the current stock quotes

- Properties— opens the `Properties` dialog

- Help — displays this document.

- About — shows basic information about the applet

## Configuring StockTicker

Bringing up the properties dialog allows you to configure StockTicker:

The top section of the dialog allows you to specify how often StockTicker looks up stock information over the network ("Quote Lookup Intveral") and how often the panel display switches from one stock to the next ("Stock Rotate Interval"). Both values are specified in seconds.

The lower section allows you to manipulate the list of stocks StockTicker keeps track of. By typing a ticker symbol in the "Add Stock" entry, you can add new stocks to your inventory. Added stocks will be looked up on the source currently specified by the "Stock source" menu selection. To delete stocks, highlight them in the stock listing (holding down the CTRL key while selecting allows you to select multiple stocks) and click the "Delete Selected" button.

Changes are not made permanent until you click "Apply" or "OK" (which also exits the dialog).

## Getting detailed information on a stock

Selecting the Details applet menu item, or double-clicking the stock panel display brings up the details dialog:

The upper part of the details dialog displays all sorts of useful information about the currently selected stock. The lower part of the dialog displays a graph of the stock's performance over the course of the current day.

## Updating StockTicker / Submitting bugs

The StockTicker webpage can be found at: http://stockticker.sourceforge.net. To submit bug reports, go here.

## 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