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- This is one of the many Commodities Exchange clones available. This one
- is based on a BGUI graphical user interface. It works almost exactly
- the same as the original C= Exchange program. It does have some special
- features though :)
-
- This is what you'll see in the GUI:
-
- Listview - In this gadget you will see all commodities listed currently
- running on your system. Active commodities are shown using
- the pen for important text (usually white) and the inactive
- commodities are show using the normal text pen (usually
- black).
-
- The listview is in multi-selection mode which means that
- you can select more than one commodity at the time. All
- operation buttons below the listview will also have their
- effect on all the selected commodities.
-
- To get a little more information on a specific commodity you
- can double-click it. This will bring up a requester which
- shows you the info.
-
- Show - This will tell all the selected commodities to open their
- windows. Commodities which do not have a window to open will
- not respond.
-
- Hide - This does the opposite of Show. It will tell all selected
- commodities which have open windows to close them.
-
- Flip Status - As explained above the active commodities are rendered in
- a different color than the inactive ones. When you click on
- this button the state of the selected commodities will
- change from active to inactive or vice versa. With that the
- color of the commodity names also change.
-
- Remove - Simply removes all selected commodities from the system.
-
- The below button named "Hide" does exactly the same thing as the Hide
- button explained above with the exception that it only applies to
- WallStreet itself.
-
- Finaly the Quit button will, surprise surprise, quit the program.
-
- "Why yet another Exchange clone?"
-
- Well, people asked me for some functional demos for BGUI and this seemed
- to be a nice demo even though it is a hack. It shows you a couple of
- interesting things about the BGUI listview class. Also I needed
- something which could terminate all commodities on my system in one go
- to run some demos from the AmiNet CDs. "YES, I like to see good demos."
- This way I'm serving both the BGUI users and myself.
-
- To run WallStreet you'll have to quit the original C= exchange program.
- WallStreet uses the broker name "Exchange" because this is the only way
- to get important brokerlist messages without having to resort to timer
- based list updates.
-
- Please be aware that this is a hack which relies on undocumented
- features of the OS and therefore cannot be seen as an example of good
- programming.
-
- Now some pros'n'cons in comparison to the "real thing" :)
-
- Pro:
-
- Font sensitive
- Can act on multiple commodities at once
- Serves as a nice BGUI example
- Simply looks better ;)
-
- Con:
-
- Relies on undocumented Cx features
- It's bigger (WHAT!!!!)
- Not localized
-
- Enjoy,
- Jan
-