Friday, August 3, 2018

New version 2.0.6

This version fixes issues with downloading ticker's quote from the free web source.

Cheers!

8/3/2018 3PM EST Update: still fails, sorry fellas.
8/4/2018 12AM EST Update: I believe I have it working. We shall see for how long.

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  2. This version works great! In "stocksTicker options.XML", "refreshInterval" is 16 by default. Is this the stocks refresh rate? Does 16 refer to seconds, minutes, or ...? Thank you.

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    1. The value you are referring to has to do with milliseconds of updating the text on screen. Updating the refresh of the quotes is unlikely to succeed at this point due to the source of the data, which while this version fixes for now, might not work for much longer.

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  3. Do you have a 4K Monitor? I think there's a bug to it. The stock tickers seems to cutoff a bit I can't see whole the font as it scrolls. I try to adjust the font size it's still cut off.

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    1. Microsoft keeps changing Windows OS behind the scenes. A fix for high DPI monitors will be applied at next software version

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  4. Oh also the RSS Feed doesn't seem to be working. I tried pasting this link

    https://www.sciencenews.org/feeds/science-ticker.rss and it doesn't seem to work did I paste it wrong or something?

    However this link seems to work, I don't know why, http://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed . How do I paste RSS Feeds in the Stock Ticker.

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    1. for some reason https:// in the beginning of URL sometimes crash, this is an odd behavior of the .Net framework. A work around is to not include the https:// part of the url. This will be fixed in next version, but the workaround exists for you now.

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  8. Hello? I just found something that can do Real-time Quotes! IEX Trading -https://iextrading.com/ ! Please add it to Stock Ticker ASAP! It feels possible it can be added to the Stock Ticker!

    I learned IEX Trading from this link while looking for Stock Tickers:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/finance-toolbar-real-time/cichbngoomgnobmmjpagmbkimbamigie?hl=en-US . What API/Data Engine are you using? Is it the same one?

    I talked to the person who did the chrome-extension. That person posted link for coding, maybe it can help out.
    https://github.com/iexg/IEX-API or this one https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/

    Oh by the way is possible make the ticker go 60FPS? Please fix Marigins and Fonts alignment from the Stock Ticker, to be able to read it, it's cut off.

    The Stock Ticker cutoff looks like this:
    https://imgur.com/a/JKM4Rvb

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    1. Dear sir. I was away, and won't get a chance to access the code for possibly another week. You started with request for support on comments, which I haven't caught, and then sent an email from some source which wouldn't accept a reply. Please be patient and I'll find the time to address your requests and issues. Thanks

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    2. the default refresh rate matches the monitor, which is usually 60. If you want to manually change it, edit the settings file while the program isn't running, "stocksTicker options.xml" on your my documents folder. Change the "" value to 16.

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    3. I see the "stocksTicker options.xml" in documents. But where do I put the 16 at?

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    5. Is it this one? " 16 " /refreshInterval/ 16 /refreshInterval/
      I tried setting it doesn't seem to work to make it 60 FPS.
      Could it be having 4K monitor?

      It seems like you can paste code in the comment section it.

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    6. I mean you can't post code in the comment section.

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    7. the blogger site removed from my message the 'refreshinterval' as well. Yes that's the one. 16 means 16 milliseconds, that is 60 times a second. if fails to show that often, then there might be some CPU/GPU usage issue.

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    8. How do I check if it's CPU/GPU issue? It only takes 1.4% of CPU and 21.9 MB of memory.

      I have an i7 8700K.

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    9. I think I got it to 60 FPS. You have to set even further below 16 to like 14. The only problem the ticker font seems wobbly, moving forwards and backwards,is there a way to fix it?

      It eats up 2.1% CPU now.

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  9. Is there any way to turn off Fox News and CNN feeds? And turn on/off selectively for RSS feeds?

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    1. ....Not just one RSS Feed. Like 4 out of 7 RSS feeds 'on' at the sametime.

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    2. In options, check the box for "hide default feeds".

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