real-time financial data (howto)

2013-12-05 Thread Neeraj Rai
I noticed this post a few days back. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-November/057706.html glad to see that C++ will be preferred due to performance. where can I find more imfo on progress and any upcoming docs on streaming data? will there be ability to have streaming x-y

Re: real-time financial data (howto)

2013-11-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 23/11/13 20:54, Michael Meeks wrote: On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 15:15 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Would you be interested in working on integrating such a thing? Yes, that is why I'm looking at it Cool - so there is a lot we want to do here in calc. The initial work on that is in

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Daniel Pocock wrote: On 22/11/13 20:17, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Not sure that would be overly smart to have as a core feature - urls and formats for these things tend to be a bit in flux. ;) That is where a middleware like OpenMAMA comes in handy - OpenMAMA (with a messaging broker or

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 23/11/13 14:26, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Daniel Pocock wrote: On 22/11/13 20:17, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Not sure that would be overly smart to have as a core feature - urls and formats for these things tend to be a bit in flux. ;) That

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Daniel Pocock wrote: Would it be problematic for core to have an OpenMAMA dependency though? OpenMAMA is not available on all platforms. Not in general, nope. For some platforms (e.g. Windows), we tend to ship builtin versions for a number of platform libraries, so that would work with

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-23 Thread Markus Mohrhard
Hey, 2013/11/23 Thorsten Behrens t...@documentfoundation.org Daniel Pocock wrote: Would it be problematic for core to have an OpenMAMA dependency though? OpenMAMA is not available on all platforms. Not in general, nope. For some platforms (e.g. Windows), we tend to ship builtin

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-22 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Daniel, 2013/11/21 Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au Hi, Is there any extension for receiving a live market data feed (e.g. currency exchange rates, stock prices) in Calc, or is anybody working on such a thing? Short answer: yes, people are working on it. There's been a lot of

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-22 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jesús Corrius wrote: Also as a wish for LibreOffice 4.3 I would love to see new core Calc functions like: =GoogleFinance(GOOG) Not sure that would be overly smart to have as a core feature - urls and formats for these things tend to be a bit in flux. ;) There's this guy here (worked for me

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/11/13 20:17, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jess Corrius wrote: Also as a wish for LibreOffice 4.3 I would love to see new core Calc functions like: =GoogleFinance(GOOG) Not sure that would be overly smart to have as a core feature -

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-21 Thread jonathon
On 11/21/2013 03:41 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Is there any extension for receiving a live market data feed (e.g. currency exchange rates, stock prices) in Calc, or is anybody working on There is an extension that retrieves data from Yahoo. It claims to be able to retrieve stock prices,

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-21 Thread mariosv
Have you tried through Menu/Insert/Link to external data. https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Inserting_External_Data_in_Table_WebQuery Miguel Ángel. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/real-time-financial-data-tp4084322p4084391.html Sent from the Dev mailing

real-time financial data

2013-11-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, Is there any extension for receiving a live market data feed (e.g. currency exchange rates, stock prices) in Calc, or is anybody working on such a thing? If not, is there any extension that might serve as a useful template for somebody wanting to develop something like that? Debian/Ubuntu

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 22/11/13 00:33, mariosv wrote: Have you tried through Menu/Insert/Link to external data. https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Inserting_External_Data_in_Table_WebQuery I had seen that, is it only suitable for on-demand data sources, or also event-based sources like OpenMAMA that provide