Not exactly CF, but there are lots of Flash users out there. Scotttrader at www.scotttrader.com provides a free java applet that allows you to monitor stock positions in real time. ( a more robust version of the java applet is available if you set up a Scottrade account).
You can enter multiple lists of up to 10 stocks and it will display real time activity from some sort of streaming feed. A stock ticker and other goodies are also available, but the real-time display of multiple stock positions is the most useful (and most impressive, challenging, etc). As each activity is posted to the spreadsheet-like form, the background color of each affected cell changes to reflect the plus or minus direction of the activity -- green = plus, red = minus, yellow = high or low for the day. Each cell changes color when the activity warrants. It is quite useful to see the colors and numbers ripple through the spreadsheet, every second, or so. In general it is fast and quite nice, but suffers from some of the common Java applet problems: -- works with only certain browser versions -- displays differently (incorrectly) in different browser versions -- does not play nicely with other browser windows. I was wondering if some of the Flash experts out there could answer some general questions: -- Could this be done with Flash? -- Would a Flash implementation perform as well, worse, better than the Java applet? If there is no performance penalty, a Flash implementation would appear to be a better solution. Just to throw something else into the pot, the "robust" version has an interactive tutorial that works just OK in Java, but would be a natural for Flash. Thoughts Dick P.S. MACR was up .25 to $20.80 at last look! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
