Gtk2::Ex::TickerView is a horizontal scrolling stock ticker or
newsbar widget for Gtk2-Perl.
Read more in the online man page (19k, html).
Gtk2::Ex::TickerView is
free software (free
as in freedom), published under the terms of the
GNU General Public
License (v3 or higher).
Download version 15 as just the .pm file, full source here or
from CPAN, or a
Debian package here or from my repo.
TickerView.pm(74k, and sig)
Gtk2-Ex-TickerView-15.tar.gz(80k, and sig)
libgtk2-ex-tickerview-perl_15-1_all.deb(51k, and sig)
The sig files are Gnu PG ascii armoured
signatures generated from my key, and there's
a SIGNATURE file inside the .tar.gz for
cpansign.
Older sources can be found
at backpan.
The prerequisites are Gtk2-Perl and my CellLayout-Base and ObjectBits. There's actually nothing Perl-specific about the concept, so there's a decent chance of a plain C implementation at some stage, but trying out various pixmap/redraw/change strategies all in C is too much like hard work.
This page Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 Kevin Ryde, except for the GPLv3 logo which is Copyright Free Software Foundation and used here in accordance with its terms.