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| Xinvest
is a free personal finance tracking and performance tool for the X Window
System. |
Xquote
is a free WWW quote retrieval tool for the X Window System. |
News
December 27, 2004 - Xquote 2.6.10 adds usability enhancements and alerts
Go get it at http://xinvest.sunsite.dk/xquote-2.6.10.tar.gz.
Also full HTML documentation is available at
http://xinvest.sunsite.dk/htmldocs.html.
May 1, 2004 - Joint release 2.6.9 of Xinvest, Xquote, and QuoteFilter
The new versions are now available :
Xinvest 2.6.9,
Xquote 2.6.9,
QuoteFilter 2.6.9.
March 14, 2004 - Initial version of QuoteFilter available
The initial version of QuoteFilter is now available at
http://users.skynet.be/danny.backx/download/QuoteFilter-0.1.tar.gz .
QuoteFilter is a new tool to complement Xinvest and Xquote : it processes E-mails from financial
institutions and drops the latest quotes in the files used by Xinvest.
November 13, 2003 - changing to BSD license
Xquote and Xinvest will soon become available under the BSD license,
meaning they will be regarded as free or open source software.
This was different with the old license.
November 6, 2003 - Xquote 2.3.1 is available
It fixes a couple of problems with version 2.3.
November 3, 2003 - Xquote 2.3 is available
This version will work with the new Yahoo! site.
July 2, 2000 - Xinvest email contact changes
Contact information to email the maintainer of these software packages
and web pages has changed to: xinvest@sunsite.dk.
December 9, 2000 - CVS repository Available
If you would like to contribute to the project, or just like to build with
the latest source, you are now able to do so. See CVS developers area for
more details.
November 20, 2000 - Xquote 2.2 Now Available
Xquote 2.2 now supports logging of quote updates to a file. File
logging is supported through 3 new file menu items: Log To File, Stop Log,
and Clear log file. Another option menu dialog has been added which
allows selection of the file logging format, either Xinvest format, which
is compatible with Xinvest transactions, or a semicolon separated list.
The former format only logs the date and price of a quote, the latter format
logs every quote variable currently selected for display from the details
dialog. This allows you to tailor the log to the information of most
interest to you.
November 19, 2000 - Xquote and Xinvest built with Open Motif
Open Motif is a release of Motif sources and runtimes available with the
more generous Open Group Public License. Open source operating systems
can generally use, build, and provide Motif for free. Xinvest and
Xquote will continue to work with LessTif as well. To get more information
on Open Motif, check the links section.
April 15, 2000 - Xquote 2.1 Now Available
Xquote 2.1 now has support for larger ticker symbols (up to 15 characters).
It also now supports separately specified display text. The ticker
tape view will either display the ticker symbol, or if defined, an arbitrary
string you specify. This should help with those odd Yahoo symbols like
^IXIC (NASDAQ composite).
Xquote 2.1 will restore your older session files, but will force you
to enter the new display text field the next time you open the ticker symbol
dialog. If you wish to just keep the display as it was, just enter
the ticker symbol into the new display text field. Remember the easiest
way to 'edit' your ticker symbol list is to double click on the ticker
symbol you wish to modify (it's contents will be loaded into the entry
fields), click on
remove, add the desired display text, and click on Add. Repeat
for each ticker symbol.
February 5, 2000 - Xinvest 2.6 Now Available
Xinvest 2.6 contains loads of new features: currency exchange rates, exchange
rate live updates from Xquote, a revamped report generator, a preference
dialog for display formats, etc, and modifiers for Xquote updates, so received
quotes can be placed into the units of your account history.
Developers
CVS Area
The generic instructions on how to work with anonymous CVS
on sunsite.dk are
available here.
Here is our summary -
to checkout current sources with read only access:
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cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sunsite.dk:/pack/anoncvs login (the
password is "cvs", without the quotes)
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cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sunsite.dk:/pack/anoncvs checkout xinvest
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cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sunsite.dk:/pack/anoncvs logout
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cd to xinvest/build/xinvest or xinvest/build/xquote and type make (on Linux
systems)
There's no need to use the CVS area to build with current stable sources,
just visit the download pages for complete distributions.
For active development you will need write access to the repository,
email
me with your plans and an account can be created. Areas of particular
interest include: Xprt support for printing the man Xlib graphics of Xinvest,
figuring out GNOME session management vagaries over the base X11R6.3 functionality,
etc. See the TODO list for more ideas, and other suggestions are
certainly welcome.
Mailing
List
Join the list if you'd like to follow the development of these programs,
like to report a bug, have a question, or would like to see a new feature
implemented. I expect this to be a very low volume list. You may
continue to contact me directly, but I encourage you to use the mailing
list so everyone may gain from it.
To subscribe: email to xinvest-subscribe@sunsite.dk
To unsubscribe: email to xinvest-unsubscribe@sunsite.dk
To post a message to the list: email to xinvest@sunsite.dk
Links
Other sites you might find interesting:
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XPM Home Page or here
if you have problems connecting. |
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Free Motif clone, Xinvest and Xquote run just fine with LessTif. |
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Motif based on the official Open Group sources. |
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Xinvest
2.6 and Xquote
2.1 are available on the Red Hat Linux PowerTools CD. |
Special thanks to SunSITE Denmark for their generous support.
If you have comments or suggestions,
email me at xinvest@sunsite.dk
Updated $Date: 2005/02/26 16:05:25 $ by $Author: danny $
