Well, I guess one of the most requested features of the widget has now come true: intraday charts. While not as nice-looking as the other charts which are drawn live in canvas, I’ve found a way to blend the standard Yahoo intraday pixelated charts into the widget, without loosing too much eye-candy.
On top of that, I’ve added something that might be more of showoff feature: you can now select to view the risers and fallers of an index instead of the chart.

So, hope you like it, leave a comment on the widget page itself!

As you might have noticed by now, there are new versions of the Euro Stocks widget. The old (version 0.6) one has been entirely replaced by version 1.0, which doesn’t share any of the old code (except maybe for the update functionality). It’s been built from ground up. You might wonder why there no longer is an intraday option, why the stock codes have been changed and why the preferences are no longer global. Read the rest of this entry »

To all of you who are using the EuroStocks Widget for MacOSX and are having trouble using Custom ISIN/Index Codes to track their stocks: I’m sorry, Euronext.com is constantly changing and I can’t find a consistent solution for tracking one particular stock item. The trouble lies in the fact that an ISIN code can be listed at more than one Index and I can’t make up a way to detect which ones that are.

On the other hand I’ve found a couple of other stockrate sources that I might incorporate in a future version of the widget. I can still see EuroStocks to be the super aggregate stocks widget, if only I had more time…

Thank you for your patience and please keep checking apple.com for other stocks widgets. Competition will drive all of us to do our best!

It’s taken some time, but the two most annoying bugs have been taken care of.

The changes: Version 0.6

• The “Custom ISIN Code” is now properly saved to preferences
• The widget resizes correctly after a reload/resize when the “Volume” preference is checked.

Wish you happy moneymaking!

..and the Buienradar.nl guys don’t seem to like dancing. Doesn’t matter, small update to fix their rainradar images not loading.

Find the update here.

NL Weerradar widget is updated to version 1.6, to deal with some changes in the Buienradar.nl page. I’m not even hoping for it to work for a long time, as the Buienradar.nl guys seem to have fun in constantly changing their pages.

You can find it here.

It all starts with a request on a forum and before you know it, you’re working on something that doesn’t really interest you (stocks…), but is a darn good challenge.

So, here it is: the Euro Stocks widget. Use it to make some money. Don’t ever forget that it was me who made that easier for you.

Download here

Features:

• Includes the National indices of Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris and the Global indices of Euronext.
• Intraday and historic charts (in seven steps from one month to ten years) of all aforementioned indices.
• Risers and fallers of selected index on separate tabs.
• The amount of information in the chart (grid, previous close, etc.) can be adjusted according to your wishes.
• You’re able to use a custom ISIN code, to view indices not included in the predefined indices.
• The widget saves all preferences.

In short, the changes:
Version 1.5:

• Again: the current rainfall of BuienRadar.nl stopped working correctly after a change of their online page, now fixed.
• Fixed small bug where the update check and the retrieval of the Buienradar.nl information could get in each other’s way.

Hope it’ll be working for a bit longer now.

Guess I’ll have to be keeping up with “the internet”. Buienradar.nl changed their page today and that stopped the widget from loading the image of the current rainfall correctly.
Furthermore I thought that I had put saving and retrieving of preferences for size and source in the last release. It however happened to be only in my own development version.

Nevertheless, it all works now, including the preferences, please don’t hate me for updating it so quickly (blame Buienradar.nl!) and stay dry!

Download here. [Changelog]

The NL Weerradar widget has been updated again! It now includes data from Buienradar.nl, in addition to the already supported WetterOnline.de data. Just pick another data source and the widget will smoothly resize to the new image size.

Download it now!

Changes:

Version 1.3:

• Updatecheck fixed
• Added BuienRadar.nl as source

Version 1.2:

• The interface has undergone a facelift.
• The widget can be resized to two predefined sizes: large and small.
• It now features an update check.
• User-friendly error messages are displayed when the widget isn’t able to connect to the image server.
• The widget now tries to retrieve the image three consecutive times. When it can’t find the newest radar image, it will try to fetch one from fifteen minutes earlier.