[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws Stock Ticker

Hi Sean,
        Thanks for the suggestions.  Sometimes, I look too far when the
answer is so close.  It turns out that there's a stock checker on Twitter
called stock.  The thing is however, you need to send that account the
following command
d stock (stock symbol)
For example,
d stock goog
to get the Google stock price.
Presently, through your scripts, it doesn't seem that you can send twitters
to specific individuals.  You can only reply to them.
Still very useful though.
Cheers,
Martin


> Date:        Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:09:14 -0000
> From:        "Sean Randall" <seanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:        <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ReplyTo:    jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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