Hi folks. I've been messing around with Tcl/Tk ever since [Michael Jacobson] introduced me to it in 2001. I have written the following: tcldoc2, fickle, and tclweather. I am in the process of writing a few other projects. Although they were mostly developed in Win32, they ought to run on whatver platform one chooses, be it BeOS, *BSD, Linux, etc. Unless otherwise specified, all projects are covered by the GNU General Public License. Here's an old (1996) picture of me, in case you want to stalk me: [http://www.jtang.org/~tang/images/techid.jpg]. My horribly out of date home page is at http://www.jtang.org. Email me at [[concat "tang" "at" "jtang.org"]. (Sorry, I have to start spam-proofing my address[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=why+spam+sucks].) Personally I don't like authoring HTML pages...so no bandwidth-wasting Flash/ActiveX/Javascript/etc below. Here's what I wrote: * [TclStock] ---- '''TclWeather''' is a simple weather applet that periodically downloads meteorological data from NOAA's web site[http://weather.noaa.gov]. The program first grabs the ''METAR''[http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml] report for the selected site. It then pushes the data through a home-made scanner (written as a ''Fickle specification file'') and then displays it on a home-made ticker widget. It is to Tcl what gweather[http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomeweather/?topic_id=58] is to Gnome[http://www.gnome.org]. Here's a screenshot of it in action. [[Insert picture here RSN] The applet is fairly customizable, from the color choices to scrolling speed and direction. One feature it supports, that I find lacking by many others, is that it allows for HTTP proxies as well as proxy authentication. This is useful if one wishes to run TclWeather behind, for example, a corporation's proxy server. ---- '''TclStock''' is yet another one of those stock ticker applets. It reused much of the TclWeather codebase, hence the similarities in both design and appearance. It retrieves its stock quotes from NewsAlert[http://www.newsalert.com]. It doesn't have the fancy features needed to maintain a complete portfolio; it is intended to be a lightweight companion to TclWeather. The program was originally inspired by Tom Poindexter's TclTicker, but was quickly branched off to utilize the ticker widget I wrote for TclWeather. Here are some screenshots. * Here is a picture of the main tclstock, as taken from WinNT 4.0. It wasn't such a great day on Wall Street when I took this picture: [http://tcl.jtang.org/tclstock/tclstock-ticker0.jpg] * This image shows the first configuration tab where one may change, among other things, the font and scroll speeds: [http://tcl.jtang.org/tclstock/tclstock-config0.jpg] * Colors are customizable on the second tab. Left-clicking a stock name will pop up a window showing additional details about that company. TclStock is meant to be OS independent, hence the ability for the user to choose his browser. [http://tcl.jtang.org/tclstock/tclstock-config1.jpg] * ''(Not shown)'' TclStock is also aware of proxy servers. '''Download TclStock 1.0 from http://tcl.jtang.org/tclstock/tclstock-1.0.tar.gz''' ---- [Category Home Page] [Category Application]