[Kde-finance-apps] Announcing: KNameNeeded

[Brian Cappello]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com>wrote:

> În data de Joi 20 Mai 2010 20:34:13 Brian Cappello a scris:
>
> Welcome to the KDE Finance group. By looking at the screen shot I think
> this
> is the right place to introduce the application.
>
> Any contribution to the design and development of Alkimia and, with it, to
> a
> KDE Fianace applications package is welcomed. KStockCharts seems a good
> start
> towards improving the Finance apps group.
>
> Looks like you need to open the code up so you can get feedback on it and
> who
> knows, maybe some help to make it better.
>

OK, I just made a gitorious account, but this is my first time ever using
git (or any SCM) so... yea. I also don't know the first thing about how to
make a release. (I think i accidentally uploaded my build directory.)

git clone git://gitorious.org/kstockcharts/kstockcharts.git
Some notes on building:
1) TA-LIB *must* be installed to /usr, and you need version 0.4 (I'm not so
good with Cmake)
2) the executable is called stockchart and there's no .desktop file

On exploring the source:
There are some unused classes left-over from earlier uses... my bad, i'll
try to get rid of those soon

On using it.
3) the indicator bar at the bottom doesn't do anything.
4) the scrollbar is backwards, and I highly recommend resetting it before
changing symbol/timeframe/etc - it's particularily buggy.
5) log-based math is also very buggy (that is, whenever the BBands go
negative. )
To disable BBands, comment out chart2.cpp lines 214 and 398-451
6) also related to price math, i'm not too sure how GraphicsView handles
sub-pixel layouts, so even though the math is the same (as far as i can
tell), the visual result of where the candles/bars/line appears isn't quite
correct compared to where the price-grid lines show up.

Those are the biggest issues i can think of at the moment.

>
> As I've heard a lot of projects started that way. We're waiting for the git
> repository. Did you think about continuing to develop this application in
> the
> KDE repository? We just moved KMyMoney in the KDE repository about a year
> ago
> and I think I can speak on behalf of the whole team that we feel very good
> about that move. You should consider that if you plan to write a *KDE*
> application and not just a Qt one.
>

I'm not sure what that entails, to be honest, but it sounds like a good
option to look into. As it stands the code certainly does need a lot of
KDE-izing... aside from using KXML and KIO, it's currently pretty much a Qt
application. :(


>
> > Well, I guess that's my introduction. I look forward to working with
> > everybody!  :D
>
> Nice to have you here, and we're waiting to try KStockChars out, and, of
> course, to see the code :).
>




> --
> Regards,
>
> Cristian Oneţ
>
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