SPR Cricket Ticker

An unobtrusive ticker that displays the latest score for one or more international cricket matches covering test, one-day and T20 formats.

Installation Instructions

Version 2.x

As of version 2.x, SPR Cricket Ticker has been re-written in Java. This means you must have the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed using Java version 1.6 or later. To check open a command prompt and type "java -version". If it does not display a version number which is 1.6 or later then please download the latest JRE - search for "download latest JRE" on Google.

Please download the latest zip file from the Downloads page. This contains jar files for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX in both 32- and 64-bit editions. Extract the required jar file matching your operating system.

To run, please try double-clicking the jar file first. If nothing happens then try running the following from a command prompt (Mac OSX users, please note the additional argument) -

• Windows: java -jar <filename>.jar
• Linux: java -jar <filename>.jar
• Mac OSX: java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar <filename>.jar

For convenience you will probably want to create a shortcut or non-Windows equivalent for the appropriate command.

Any problems, please post a message in the discussion forum.

Version 1.x

This is a .NET implementation and so will only run on Windows. To install please download and install the latest msi from the Files page.

User Guide

When started, SPR Cricket Ticker attempts to retrieve a list of active and upcoming international cricket matches from Yahoo (a firewall might prevent this). This feed is automatically updated every 30 seconds.

Match Selection

• Double-click an upcoming game for more details.
• Double-click an active game to create a new ticker.
• Once you have created one or more tickers, you can close this list.

Ticker

• A ticker can be dragged about the screen.
• Right click on the ticker to display various options.
• The Toggle Orientation option is only effective if multiple scores are displayed.

Troubleshooting

Any problems, please raise a ticket. Thanks.

Development

Version 1.x

SPR Cricket Ticker development environment, tools and techniques:

• VB.NET.
• Visual Studio 2010.
• Windows 7 (64-Bit).
• Source control using Git, GitFlow, GitHub.
• TDD with SpecFlow, NUnit, Rhino Mocks.
• Logging framework using log4net.
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset.
• Nuget, 'No-Commit' strategy, local server implementation.
• MSBuild script for Continuous Integration server (TeamCity, Jenkins).
• Model-View-Presenter (MVP) interface design.
• Manipulating Yahoo Query Language (YQL) results using LINQ.

Feedback

Please submit feedback via the Discussion Forum.
Or raise an issue, feature request, etc. at the Issue Tracker.

Licenses

SPR Cricket Ticker is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
Apache log4net is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0.

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Copyright (c) 2013 Steve Roberts