[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws Stock Ticker

How about JFetch?

>>> "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04:53 pm Tuesday, February 
>>> 24, 2009 >>>
I really should come up with a better name for that component rather than 
"How to Fetch Remote Server
Text & Binary Files within JAWS Scripts", like "The Amazing Radical Gnarly 
Tubulator!"... I'll have to give it some thought.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Randall" <seanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:09 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws Stock Ticker


> Martin,
>
> I am Jawter's author, so perhaps not the best qualified, certainly within
> rights to answer I think! :D
>
> The methods I used could easily be applied elsewhere, and it's not just me
> using them either what with Bryan Garaventa's " How to Fetch Remote Server
> Text & Binary Files within JAWS Scripts".
>
>
> My biggest headache was JAWS lack of complex datatypes - I had to parse 
> all
> the XML into a string and work with it from there.
>
> I used the XML DOM object from Microsoft for my xml parsing, and use the
> winHttpRequest Com Object to send data back to twitter.  I'd imagine that
> unless your ticker returns XML this will be the best thing for you to use.
>
> Sean.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:37 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws Stock Ticker
>
> hello there,
> Recently, I've been playing around with the Jawter scripts; (scripts that
> make Twitter work via jaws).
> Anyway, I was wondering if the same sort of idea could be applied to a 
> stock
>
> ticker?  I'd like to be able to hear an update of my stocks every 5 
> minutes
> without having to physically open a stock quote page and entering in stock
> symbols.   In other words, I would like this to be done in the background
> automatically.
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
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