Re: Binding hyperlinks to text using Perl/Tk

Not sure why you would open a browser to watch stock quotes. Here's a thread on Perl Monks on how to retrieve data from the web and populate a GUI with it.

And this response points to an article where you can simply download a script that's ready for you to use ... :)

-- saintmike

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Re: Re: Binding hyperlinks to text using Perl/Tk by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Mar 11, 2004 at 05:54 UTC
Sorry, I guess I didn't make that quite clear. My program is going to update every x seconds, but I want to have the bind option to go to the Yahoo page of the stock itself. I never personally used that option, but I believe that Yahoo has links to news for the company if you went to Yahoo Finance and looked for GE for example. And I do remember looking at that discussion when it appeared, but I'm sort of cheating. Yahoo has an option to download a CSV of a list of stocks you pick, so I'm grabbing that and then parsing out what I want from there. I'm not worried about things hanging because I'm doing the rewrites myself after fetching the CSV. There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Binding hyperlinks to text using Perl/Tk
by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Mar 11, 2004 at 05:54 UTC

And I do remember looking at that discussion when it appeared, but I'm sort of cheating. Yahoo has an option to download a CSV of a list of stocks you pick, so I'm grabbing that and then parsing out what I want from there. I'm not worried about things hanging because I'm doing the rewrites myself after fetching the CSV.

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

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