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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (8848)	2/26/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Steve Martin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Here is another way to run the quote.com applet on a Mac. Install Apple's MacOS Runtime for JAVA. Run the "Apple Applet Runner". File->Open URL. Add fast.quote.com to the list of URL's and run it. It was a little flickery but appeared to be working fine. I tried it in Navigator 4.04 and it didn't work at all.

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (8848)	2/26/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Netscape won't allow running more than one copy at once -- unless you found a way around that, too? Why do that? Why not just open two windows in the same app?

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (8848)	2/26/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Kok Chen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213173

Running Quote.com charts on Macintosh. I know this is off topic. But there has been lots of questions on how to get Quote.com's charts to run on the MacOS. The only reliable (and fast enough) way I have found to run Quote.com's applet on Macintosh is to save quote.com's page, and then run that file using the Apple Applet Runner. The first thing you want to do is to get MRJ 2.0. This is available for download at apple.com When MRJ 2.0 is installed, you should be able to find an application named "Apple Applet Runner." A command-I on that application should show the version number as 2.0. Next, using your Web browser, go to the following URL: quote.com Go to the File Menu and select "Save As...". Save the Quote.com page to a file. MAKE SURE to use a filename that ends with ".html", for example, "quote.html". If not, the Applet Runner will not see the file. Now, launch the Apple Applet Runner. When the applet runner is loaded and running, go to the File Menu and select "Open Local HTML File". You should see a standard Open File dialog. Select the file from Quote.com that you have saved. That is all there is to it. OK, how do you tell if the Applet is running, or crashed, or something else? The Applet takes a few seconds to be downloaded over the network. At which point, you should see the AWT window for the Quote.com applet. You will also get a debug message window from Java. Once the Quote.com frame appears, you will notice a horizontal blue bar on the top left. At the right of that bar, you will see "Quote.com X" After a few seconds, the "X" should turn into "X1", then to "X2", then to "X3"... to "X5" and then to "A". As long as it is advancing through X,1,2,3,4,5,A, you'll know that the applet is doing the right thing and it is not hung or out to lunch somewhere. At "A" things should start happening. You should be able to select Candlestick plots, for example, or you can ask for Volume information. From what I can tell, the default "Top-10" pane has real time DJIA, TICK etc data. Enter your ticker symbol in the box marked SYM. Have fun! kc ----- For the more advanced geeks: The only really pertinent part of the quote.com file is the following segment: --------------------- (snip) ------------------------------------ <applet name=JEChart code=JEChart2.class codebase="http://204.71.196.178/" height=360 width=600 id=JEChart2> <PARAM NAME="Symbol" value=""> <PARAM NAME="Interval" value="10"> <PARAM NAME="Display" value=0> <PARAM NAME="Volume" value=0> <PARAM NAME="cabbase" value="JEChart9.cab"> <PARAM NAME="User" value="demo"> <PARAM NAME="Pswd" value="demo"> </applet> ----------------- (snip) --------------------- In fact, if you were to change the value of the "Symbol" parameter from the empty string to the string "AAPL", you would not even have to enter the symbol once the applet runs. Similarly, you can change the value of the "Interval" to be some other value.

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (8848)	2/27/1998 2:06:00 PM
From: OM28	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Re: quote.com java applet > We should try to talk to Netscape about the problem so they will get > current versions to work for us the way 3.0.1 works. Since there are publishing their source code starting next month, I presume somebody will fix it... > Did you try Version 3.0.4? No (did not used Netscape 3.0.4 ...) > Netscape won't allow running more than one copy at once -- unless > you found a way around that, too? No, this is why I am using two PowerMac. I know it is expensive but with the recent move in Apple stock, my investment is covered... :) BTW, I recently switched to Explorer as my my main browser. Even if Netscape is still a good browser, I found Explorer faster and more stable. I never say that from a Microsoft product in the past years (I was even against using MS products) but I have to recognize the quality of their recent software (Explorer and the coming Office 98). Olivier