Re: Re: [gchartman-devel] gchartman

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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Lawrence W. Leung wrote:

> > assuming you mean freemarket and not freenet, I think this could be
> > interesting. What data sources are available in freemarket?
> > I haven't tried it yet, but I will do so now (as soon as I get all the
> > dependencies).

> Oops :) This is why my next project isn't going to be called free* =)
> 
> Currently we grab historical data from yahoo and realtime data from datek.
> But this will expand soon enough.

I'm planning to use libstocks (http://libstocks.sourceforge.net) for this,
or maybe some external Perl modules. I'm not quite sure if I can easily
re-use any of your code.

> It would be nice to add your
> cable-quote system to the options.

Good luck :) The biggest part of the videotext quote retrieval system is
the user interface, which is GTK+ in my program. You would need to rewrite
it in QT. The rest of it is relatively simple parsing of text files.

Christian Glodt
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