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March 01, 2012, 05:32:00 PM
Last edit: December 08, 2012, 04:55:19 PM by flatfly
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I made this little goodie with a friend, and thought others might like it too..
it's free, very lightweight, and CAPSLOCK toggles the display.

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Get it from: http://dre.tx0.org/.

The display is  BIG by design. I like it that way. But I've taken special care
in making the text look good.
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March 01, 2012, 07:46:38 PM
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Ummm... why exactly does the app have to download and re-create the whole MtGox homepage every 15 seconds?
We're talking of a 20 kB file here, that's just under 5 MB worth of unnecessary bandwidth and disk writes per hour or 1.7 GB per month assuming the PC is running 12/7.
That's sloppy engineering if I ever saw one and I'm sure MtGox doesn't think much of it either.
Surely, you could get away with much less data?

The only good thing I can say is that ObiWan didn't try to grab the honeypot wallet.dat I prepared Smiley

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March 01, 2012, 08:49:29 PM
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OK,

I've just released a version that addresses this issue. It still updates every 15 seconds but now only downloads the relevant data
using the MtGox API (approximately 180 bytes per refresh vs 20k previously, about 100 times less!)

And it still doesn't grab wallet.dat files lying around Smiley

See top post for the download page.
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March 01, 2012, 09:02:56 PM
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Great, thanks.

How about a version capable of a "single" mode where it downloads the data, displays it for a couple of seconds and exits?
That would allow ObiWan to be launched via the extra keys of various "multimedia" keyboard layouts.
Just add a commandline parameter for that.

Also, I'd prefer to dedicate tilde (~) rather than CapsLock to display the exchange rate.

Other than that, I do like the app.
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March 02, 2012, 10:48:25 AM
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I'm glad you like it.

I will start adding some features once I have confirmed that all major issues have been ironed out in the current version (shouldn't take that long for such a little app).

And of course, friendly donations do help me prioritize feature requests Wink

Thanks for your feedback.
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Hi,

For those interested, I have just released a EUR edition (beta), you can get it from here:
 http://dre.tx0.org/obiwan_eur.exe




-- If you like it, thanks for any donations.  These would encourage me to continue developing cool apps and widgets. My address is: 1B9WJSZ92Y5VNP2k5HowRjgL3nSunDciba
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March 04, 2012, 06:55:51 PM
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why not have a command line option to poll for the currency ticker you want, and make it so that you can run several of them at the same time.
ie.,

> type currency.txt
USD
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AUD
> for /f %l in (currency.txt) do "obiwan -%l"

would pop up 3 obiwan windows with the relevant currency ticker.

Also it would be good if there was the ask and bid in smaller text top and bottom of the ticker.


 
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March 05, 2012, 05:33:04 AM
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Also could you make a Android Widget for this, since I don't use a computer
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March 05, 2012, 11:36:03 AM
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Also could you make a Android Widget for this, since I don't use a computer

Bitcoin Prices   shows every price on every exchange imaginable
Bitcoin Widget
Bitcoin Alert

MTGOX Mobile

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March 05, 2012, 05:33:32 PM
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Also could you make a Android Widget for this, since I don't use a computer

Bitcoin Prices   shows every price on every exchange imaginable
Bitcoin Widget
Bitcoin Alert

MTGOX Mobile

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Thanks again, didn't know there was Apps already released
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hey, love the app and all but it seems to have broken. it just shows the price as 0.0000
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