I made an XRP Desktop Ticker App

[SpiralStaircase]

Hey everyone.

I was getting tired of having to constantly go to webpages and look for XRP stats, so I took the liberty of making a windows x64 application that runs as a small widget and updates every 10 seconds. The condition was I had to link to cryptocompare because they are providing the json/data for the widget, but that's not a biggie to me, as you can see it's just a small link on the bottom of the widget.

Features - 

• "Always on top" behavior so it doesn't get lost under other application windows.
• Minimizable to system tray icon
• Restore from system tray icon.

I built it using the electron application platform, so I apologize for the ridiculous file size, that just the ugly nature of electron. Once minimized to system tray, you can right click the system try icon and choose to restore it from the menu.

Here's the download link for those of you who want to get it - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8h-738SYputWjZEcVk5QTU3Sms

I named it xTicker, and at this point it's just something I made for myself I figured you all would dig also. I used the Ripple logo, but hopefully that's ok as it's only in reference to it's statistics. Hope some of you dig it.

[TheRippler]

Great job mate! And big thanks!

 

[panmores]

Nice, might you also deliver a Mac version?

[SpiralStaircase]

40 minutes ago, panmores said:

Nice, might you also deliver a Mac version?

I just tested, and yes, I can build for Mac.  Would you be able to test it out to make sure it's working properly?

[panmores]

1 minute ago, SpiralStaircase said:

I just tested, and yes, I can build for Mac.  Would you be able to test it out to make sure it's working properly?

Sure!

[SpiralStaircase]

Just now, panmores said:

Sure!

Sweet, won't be able to do it tonight, winding down, but I'll keep you posted.

[BroCoin]

Nice, thanks bro ???

[Vacek_aka_Luschka]

7 hours ago, SpiralStaircase said:

Sweet, won't be able to do it tonight, winding down, but I'll keep you posted.

happy to test on Mac here also ...

[v2020]

No malware included please...

[SpiralStaircase]

4 hours ago, v2020 said:

No malware included please...

There's not, please scan w/ whatever.

Edited September 3, 2017 by SpiralStaircase

[SpiralStaircase]

16 hours ago, panmores said:

Nice, might you also deliver a Mac version?

@panmores  @Luschka - I have it built for Mac, and you can download at - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8h-738SYputcUZScU15RFR4Q0E/view?usp=sharing

When I compressed it to an archive, it wouldn't include "symlinks", but everything else added fine. I google a bit and from what I understand symlinks are just like a shortcut so the app should still work fine. Please let me know how it goes.

Edited September 3, 2017 by SpiralStaircase

[Vacek_aka_Luschka]

Extracted, and will not start up.

[SpiralStaircase]

27 minutes ago, Luschka said:

Extracted, and will not start up.

 That sucks, I followed the build instructions for x64 mac for electron, not sure what else I can do. I'll google some and see what else I can find.

[Vacek_aka_Luschka]

Could be I'm running the latest Beta (sorry, just thought of that.)

Wait to see how panmores makes out ....

 

[SpiralStaircase]

21 minutes ago, Luschka said:

Could be I'm running the latest Beta (sorry, just thought of that.)

Wait to see how panmores makes out ....

 

I know this will sound stupid, but was just googling about people having the same issues with electron, and one thing you might try that seemed to work is rebooting.  It could also be the symlinks that didn't copy over as well causing the issue. I'll try and get that worked out as well and repackage.