David,

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>> Can you look inside the java window using perl and parse it?

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No way if they use pure Java, because the Java GUI isn’t tightly integrated with the MS Windowing system.? If the Java App doesn’t provide help it’s even hard to print a Java Panel.? You might consider this a bad thing, but it’s done by purpose to make the GUI independent from the OS and to give the application all the control over the data.

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If you have access to the Java Source of the App (you might try to re-generate it from the binary which is sometimes possible but in most cases illegal), you may add code to split off the desired data.? Just for fun I tried it on the IB client long ago. It worked but I would not recommend this to the public.

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I don’t think it’s a good idea to rely on some output format anyhow, because this layer usually is fastest changing part of any application.? Perl certainly is an good tool to read HTML streams and parse text data because it has so nice pattern matching facilities. It’s easy to do this in Java as well.

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I hope this comments are of some value – or is this forum just a VB/Excel training camp. ?In that case I would stop posting.

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Gernot

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Subject: Re: TWSAPI: General: Anyone know how to refrence a webpage and read it?

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} Does anyone know how to refrence a webpage and read its content
} programatically?
}
} A friend of mine was able to read the CME settlement page and get the
} settlement price for SPoos and Noodles using ensign charting scripts
}
} Here is the site:
}
}
} html
}
} It apparently is in a delimited format and can be read. Any ideas on
} how to do that in VB or C++
}
} Useful for including Net change in your spreadsheets, without relying
} on a secondary feed or manual entry.
}
} Scott
}

I do that stuff in Perl all the time.

BTW:? just got some stuff back from IB ... they say they sample quotes
every .7 seconds.? So I guess the filtering isn't very complex ...

Oh and Noodles?? Are you from Jay's Smurf room?? :-)


Richard

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