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 t

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-23 Thread Markus Mohrhard
Hey, 2013/11/23 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

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 open

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. >>>

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

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 f

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 f

Re: real-time financial data

2013-11-22 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi Daniel, 2013/11/21 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? > Short answer: yes, people are working on it. There's been a lot of interest lately,

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 s

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 l

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, curre