This applet displays stock quotes and news in real-time in
a scrolling ticker tape.
[NOTE: you can also think of news as messages, for example
some text you want to place among the stocks. The applet is
fully configurable and this readme is ment to present all
the features that it can offer, therefore we will use news
term along this file, but you can also take it as message]
The applet gets data from two web URLs - server side scripts
and/or txt files, and refreshes this info at the periods you
can set from HTML parameters. Quote trend affects value color
and arrows. Applet comes with yahoo feed script and sample
xml file for news, but you can build your own feeds for both.
The order in which stocks and news are displayed is set from
applet HTML parameter 'symbols' which accepts stocks symbols
and news ids, comma separated.
There is a relation between stocks feed and news feed output
and applet values for some parameters like symbols and fields.
See section 6. Config sample or this file for a real-life
config sample explained. |
