I trade stocks and I need to constantly keep an eye on an especially important stock index, SPY. I typically pull up an SPY chart (which updates automatically) by going to this website:
http://elite.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3
It's possible to go direct to the image and skip all the other stuff on the page as well:
http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
(note that the image is static now but usually updates dynamically over the course of the trading day)
My question is how I would create a rainmeter skin that lets me embed this image into a rainmeter frame which I can then adjust the "always on top", transparency, etc. features. Seems like it should be a relatively simple thing to code but in my googling I was unable to find out how to do it.
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Embeding a dynamically updating html image in a skin?
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Re: Embeding a dynamically updating html image in a skin?
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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
[MeasureImage]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
Download=1
[MeterImage]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage
ImageAlpha=150
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Re: Embeding a dynamically updating html image in a skin?
perfect, thank you!jsmorley wrote:Code: Select all
[Rainmeter] Update=1000 DynamicWindowSize=1 AccurateText=1 [MeasureImage] Measure=Plugin Plugin=WebParser URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l Download=1 [MeterImage] Meter=Image MeasureName=MeasureImage ImageAlpha=150
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Re: Embeding a dynamically updating html image in a skin?
Actually one more question - I would like to "stack" the daily chart on top of the 3-minute chart. The links to each chart are below:
http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=d&s=l
http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
I tried to put together something that would work but the result only displays the daily chart, not the 3-minute chart:
any ideas?
http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=d&s=l
http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
I tried to put together something that would work but the result only displays the daily chart, not the 3-minute chart:
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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
[MeasureImage1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=d&s=l
Download=1
[MeasureImage2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
Download=1
[MeterImage]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage1
MeasureName=MeasureImage2
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Re: Embeding a dynamically updating html image in a skin?
Code: Select all
[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
[MeasureImage1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=d&s=l
Download=1
[MeasureImage2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=http://elite.finviz.com/chart.ashx?t=SPY&ty=c&ta=0&p=i3&s=l
Download=1
[MeterImage1]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage1
[MeterImage2]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=MeasureImage2
Y=2R