News & Quotes Java Ticker Applet

JAVA TICKER APPLET is the perfect browser embedded tool you can enhance your site by showing news and/or stock market quotes in a scrolling ticker tape that you can customize in any way. This ticker can function either as a news ticker or as quotes ticker. By changing an HTML parameter you can make it show either news or stock quotes.

NOTE: This is a java applet, so it works on every Java compatible browser. To find out more about Java and how to install and applet on your site, please click here.

DATA SOURCE: the applet gets data from scripts placed on the same server. We offer 2 free fully functional PHP scripts for quotes and news:

quotes script reads data from Yahoo Financial section. Quote data is 15 minutes delayed.

news script can parse any rss feed and provide the data to the applet. To set a specific RSS feed you just need to edit the first line in the script.

SUPPORT: We provide email support for installation and customization.

FEATURES:

permanent connection to the data feed

customizable colors, border color/size, fonts and sizes

customizable rotation speed and orientation, optional rotation direction button

custom separator (image or empty space)

title section

online customizer

trend icons

customizable fields to show, stock symbol link

customizable RSS feed

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REQUIREMENTS:

PHP or ASP (with download features enabled)

Java on client browser

Ticker Features

permanent connection to the data feed: the applet connects to an URL to get data at repetitive periods; you can set how long to wait between two consecutive calls;

customizable colors, fonts and sizes: colors and speed can be set from applet parameters; the fonts are limited to JVM set; width and height also are configurable. For a real feeling of what you can change, please try our online customizer;

border: you can set border color and width, or you can use no border;

speed rotation and orientation: you can set rotation speed and rotation from applet parameters. Optionally, you can show direction button at the right size of the ticker.

online customizer: customize parameters of this applet and generate HTML code online;

title section: ticker can show a still title label with custom font and colors at the left side of the ticker. Also this area can be clicked and browser opened with a link that is set from applet parameters.

SPECIAL FEATURES FOR QUOTES VERSION [DEMO]

trend icons: along with the fields for the quotes version of the ticker you can show trend icons, by setting url of images for up/down/stay trends;

text messages: you can add text messages mixed along symbols. For example you can enter delimiter messages for stock indices like NASDAQ, S&P 500, Dow Jones etc;

customizable fields: you can select what quote fields to display (like last, change, ask, bid, etc);

symbol link: you can show symbols as links that users can click. Default link is symbol's page from Yahoo Financial section. Link for this can be set.

sample data scripts: we provide the following sample data scripts:

o yahoo.php - grabs quotes from Yahoo Financial section (http://finance.yahoo.com/). Requires allow_url_fopen php setting to be enabled.

o yahoo-curl.php - grabs quotes from Yahoo Financial section (http://finance.yahoo.com/) using CURL library. To be used when allow_url_fopen is disabled.

o yahoo.asp - grabs quotes from Yahoo Financial section (http://finance.yahoo.com/). Script for sites that use ASP instead of PHP.


SPECIAL FEATURES FOR NEWS VERSION [DEMO]

customizable RSS feed to get data from

link on news: when clicking a news title the corresponding link is opened

To test live features of this applet, either visit demo page or online customizer. We are also offering a free demo version of the ticker.

For detailed explanation of parameters and other documentation, please visit docs page.