[Szymon]

Hello Everyone,

Here is an Market Calendar application that I developed this afternoon, please use it for your trading needs and it has a lot of features like opacity so you can see it at the same time as your charting software you can also set it to automatically refresh every xxx minutes or seconds.

I have attached a few screenshots of it in action.

Installation is very simple just place all three files into a directory and create a shortcut to the desktop.

Right-Click on the running clocks to see the context-menu, I think this application is very user friendly so no need for manuals.

I do not take any responsibility if it does not work on your computer or if it does something else. I have tested it on my Vista machine works great.

If you have some ideas on expanding this little freeware, then use this thread and post your comments.

I will see what can be done to include your ideas in it.

Regards

Simon

[thrunner]

Very nice Szymon. My suggestions are:
1. Minimizable to Clock display only (with Hr:Min:Sec)
2. Synchronize clock to NTP server so that it is accurate to the second.
Thank you.

[mister ed]

Goodonya Simon! (That's Australian for well done, much appreciated).

[Hlm]

Yes, very nice.

I'm in a rush but since you asked here are a few other suggestions off the top of my head ...

Allow the user to change the text settings. For example, you are calling the site

http://www.forexfactory.com/excal.php?show=1&color1=transparent&color2=transparent&color3=transparent&color4=%23FFFFFF&color5=%23000000&color6=%23FFFFFF&color7=%23FFFFFF&color8=%23000000&color9=&fontsize=12&dark_icons=1

You can view the text settings available here: http://www.forexfactory.com/excal.php

This can be done two ways...
1) Allow the user to change the link settings via the program.
2) Allow the user to insert their OWN url into the program. The user could then go to the second link, select their choices, and then paste the generated url into the program (the easiest way).

For the opacity, it would be nice if there was an option to make the window solid when you mouse over. Then you can quickly have the best of both worlds.

An alarm for news would be very nice. A user could select the impact level and desired amount of warning. Programming wise this would need to extract the data displayed into tables to compare time, etc. Data mining would take the complexity to another level though and I don't know if you want to go past the iframe simplicity approach. However once this programming is done it would open up much more personalization for the end user. Just something to think about.

Instead of having pre selected numbers for refresh and opacity, it might be easier to just have a box to enter the desired level (1-100 for opacity and time in seconds) and a "disable" selection (which would grey out the box when selected).

The ability to save settings is probably the biggest suggestion I have. This should include the ability for it to position itself correctly on the screen as well.

I like the fact that you can move the window to a position and then "stick" it there by removing the border.

[Soultrader]

Very nice Szymon. Thank you very much. I wish I had the skills to create such things.

[btrader2]

Nice bit of coding Szymon. Thanks!

[Szymon]

Originally Posted by thrunner »

Very nice Szymon. My suggestions are:
1. Minimizable to Clock display only (with Hr:Min:Sec)
2. Synchronize clock to NTP server so that it is accurate to the second.
Thank you.

Hi Thrunner,

Thanks for your feedback.

I Will see what can be done.

Regards

Simon

[Szymon]

Originally Posted by Hlm »

Yes, very nice.

I'm in a rush but since you asked here are a few other suggestions off the top of my head ...

Allow the user to change the text settings. For example, you are calling the site

http://www.forexfactory.com/excal.php?show=1&color1=transparent&color2=transparent&color3=transparent&color4=%23FFFFFF&color5=%23000000&color6=%23FFFFFF&color7=%23FFFFFF&color8=%23000000&color9=&fontsize=12&dark_icons=1

You can view the text settings available here: http://www.forexfactory.com/excal.php

This can be done two ways...
1) Allow the user to change the link settings via the program.
2) Allow the user to insert their OWN url into the program. The user could then go to the second link, select their choices, and then paste the generated url into the program (the easiest way).

For the opacity, it would be nice if there was an option to make the window solid when you mouse over. Then you can quickly have the best of both worlds.

An alarm for news would be very nice. A user could select the impact level and desired amount of warning. Programming wise this would need to extract the data displayed into tables to compare time, etc. Data mining would take the complexity to another level though and I don't know if you want to go past the iframe simplicity approach. However once this programming is done it would open up much more personalization for the end user. Just something to think about.

Instead of having pre selected numbers for refresh and opacity, it might be easier to just have a box to enter the desired level (1-100 for opacity and time in seconds) and a "disable" selection (which would grey out the box when selected).

The ability to save settings is probably the biggest suggestion I have. This should include the ability for it to position itself correctly on the screen as well.

I like the fact that you can move the window to a position and then "stick" it there by removing the border.

Hi Hlm,

Thanks for your detailed feedback.

I was thinking about giving the user the option of entering their own urls, and yes saving it to a small text file what be good.

Also notice that when the page refreshes it goes back to the position where it was before, not like internet explorer where it goes all the way to the top, so I think that is a big plus.

Next time I have some free hours I will make something better and work with some of your suggestions.

My next little project will be using dukascopy free stuff in the same manner, but with more options because they have a lot to offer for the forex trader, but that's another new thread.

Thanks again all for your suggestions and comments.

Regards

Simon