Bitcoin Windows gadget which displays BTC and currency amounts - page 4.

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Quote from: Domchi on November 05, 2018, 05:06:49 PM

Quote from: NikolayS on November 05, 2018, 03:58:38 PM

Thank you for the widget, it would have been really useful.
However, it is not now, because "correction in currency" doesn't really work.

What problems are you having with correction in currency? By default it's 0 which gives no effect. If you input number 1 in that field, the value that'll be displayed in the bottom field should be incremented by 1.

As you can see on screenshot, I have only single field on gadget. I want to correct this field. Why do I need two fields? I kind of know that all of them are relative to BTC, I don't need separate line saying BTC 4 times for each coin used.

Quote from: Domchi on November 05, 2018, 05:06:49 PM

Quote from: NikolayS on November 05, 2018, 03:58:38 PM

Also, really small values are stripped.
I want to use it for altcoin pairs, and coins that cost ~100 satoshi are displayed totally wrong, like 0.00001, whey I want to see 0.00000113 or 113s or something like that.
Strangely, coins below 100 are displayed correctly.

http://monosnap.com/image/BU7xna0ktcYQeQRXaHZoK7QNVjKxyY.png
Here, ICX is stripped

This is intentional. By design, gadget has a very limited amount of digits it can display - only about 7 digits of precision can fit in the space available.

I understand the cause of this, but how can it be used then? If correction from above worked properly for all fields, I could place +100 000 000 in there and see value in satoshi, for example. Now I am just not able to see whole value.
Also, 240.000n looks ugly, I want to be able to see '24' there.

Thank you!

Domchi

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Quote from: stomachgrowls on November 05, 2018, 06:32:13 PM

I need this widget but it do give some prompts Huh

Its totally safe Grin

Yeah, it's totally safe. Every Win7 gadget will trigger the same prompt; that's because Microsoft abandoned the technology. But it's still the only way to display this stuff on desktop in Win7.

This gadget is open source, anybody can open it and inspect its contents (.gadget file is just a zip file with some HTML and Javascript inside). It doesn't access your wallets and it doesn't require any private keys.

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I need this widget but it do give some prompts Huh

Its totally safe Grin

Thanks for this one.

Edit: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/c1814dab7842c5ecf697e632d497e763cdabd3c76bf832d7a004efcf098d90f8/detection

Domchi

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Quote from: NikolayS on November 05, 2018, 03:58:38 PM

Thank you for the widget, it would have been really useful.
However, it is not now, because "correction in currency" doesn't really work.

What problems are you having with correction in currency? By default it's 0 which gives no effect. If you input number 1 in that field, the value that'll be displayed in the bottom field should be incremented by 1.

Quote from: NikolayS on November 05, 2018, 03:58:38 PM

Also, really small values are stripped.
I want to use it for altcoin pairs, and coins that cost ~100 satoshi are displayed totally wrong, like 0.00001, whey I want to see 0.00000113 or 113s or something like that.
Strangely, coins below 100 are displayed correctly.

Here, ICX is stripped

This is intentional. By design, gadget has a very limited amount of digits it can display - only about 7 digits of precision can fit in the space available. If you're trying to display a number that has too many digits (like 1.2345678), it will be rounded. This is what you see when you say "stripped" - the last decimal is stripped (rounded, actually) because there simply isn't enough space to display it.

Another way the gadget copes with really big or really small numbers is by using metric symbols. You know, k for kilo (or 1000) and so on. On your screenshot, when it displays 240.000n for NPXS, n means nano; it means that NPXS exchange rate is 240 * 0.000000001 = 0.00000024. This is a way to get maximum precision (and avoid rounding) when you don't have high precision, but have many zeroes that don't fit. All more common metric symbols are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Hope this helps.

NikolayS

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Hello.
Thank you for the widget, it would have been really useful.
However, it is not now, because "correction in currency" doesn't really work.
Also, really small values are stripped.
I want to use it for altcoin pairs, and coins that cost ~100 satoshi are displayed totally wrong, like 0.00001, whey I want to see 0.00000113 or 113s or something like that.
Strangely, coins below 100 are displayed correctly.

http://monosnap.com/image/BU7xna0ktcYQeQRXaHZoK7QNVjKxyY.png
Here, ICX is stripped

bittab

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Now, there is an advanced widget for Windows, called BitTab.

See the screenshot below:

4000+ coins and 40+ exchanges

go to http://bittab.io/

also there is a main thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-best-bitcoin-price-ticker-widget-for-windows-pc-recommend-4679957

Domchi

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Quote from: movellan on September 01, 2018, 10:06:06 AM

Looks like Coinbase Pro has changed the API from the old GDAX settings. Would you please post the updated settings? TIA.

Sure.

Coinbase Pro
exchange URL: https://api.pro.coinbase.com/products/BTC-USD/ticker
exhange rate JSON key: price
ticker currency: USD
field 1 JSON key: ask
field 2 JSON key: price
field 3 JSON key: bid

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Looks like Coinbase Pro has changed the API from the old GDAX settings. Would you please post the updated settings? TIA.

Quote from: Domchi on June 02, 2018, 02:28:26 PM

Quote from: movellan on June 02, 2018, 12:33:56 PM

MyBitcoins gadget has been working fine with the settings you posted for GDAX, but it's changing to CoinbasePro the end of the month. I'm using the new page now and it's pretty stable. Would you be so kind as to post the settings for the new page for MyBitcoins? TIA.

From what I see, CoinbasePro "Developer Platform" links to old GDAX documentation which doesn't mention that domain will change, so I assume that API will continue to work as usual. If at any point they decide to change the API, please let me know and I'll post updated settings - I'm not using them myself.

Quote from: Mr.ZODIAC on June 02, 2018, 01:39:04 PM

Of course it's good to use Windows if the operating system is on a mobile device too. But how do users who use Android for their work act? Are there any apps for gadgets on Android?

I have no plans to make this gadget mobile. But there are a bunch of alternatives for Android: https://thedroidguy.com/2018/05/5-best-bitcoin-ticker-widget-app-2018-1079691

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I want to intrudoce BitTab, a more delicate ticker bar for Windows.

For a basic(or light) users who want to watch BTC on the desktop wallpaper or by a widget, other apps(like this topic's app) seem to be enough.

But, if you want to watch the coins on the desktop like a Windows taskbar or a ticker, this BitTab can be the solution.

http://bittab.io/?from=bitcointalk

* contains more than 30 different exchanges over the world
* more than 1000 different coins available
(the prices of the same coin can differ according to different exchanges, that's why the support for many exchanges is important)
* provides simple conditional alarms (like above, below...)
* it reloads the values starting from 30 seconds
* provides a few skins (and can be customized with CSS and Javascript)
* it has 'PRO' feature - for developer

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-best-bitcoin-price-ticker-widget-for-windows-pc-recommend-4679957

twitter: http://twitter.com/bittabapp

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In my opinian, because the system's my conputer is win10, Bitcoin Windows difficult to use. Its is element the first. The second, the virus software will destroy some details above Bitcoin windows.

Is there a way to fix it?
Please everyone give the comments. Thanks!

Bitcoin Windows gadget works on Windows 7. After Windows 7, Microsoft has discontinued support for gadgets, but there are ways to run gadgets on newer Windows versions. See here: https://www.intowindows.com/desktop-gadgets-for-windows-10/

suppapan

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It so cool

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Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 04:32:50 PM

... now that i know that all requests of gadgets go through the IE i found the "glitch".
By activating all TLS protocols in IE the gadget requests to Bitstamp work again.
Thank you again for you kind help.

Thank you!
It definitely is something related to https, maybe Bitstamp people disabled some SSL encryption protocols or something.

I've now tried intercepting https connection (SSL proxy) and that seems to work. On my IE all TLS protocols are already enabled. I've tried disabling them and enabling them again, and then I right-clicked the desktop and toggled View / Show desktop gadgets off and on again and that seemed to fix it in my case.

Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 04:32:50 PM

PS: since we are already here "chatting" i was wondering: Why is there no dedicated gadget for ETHEREUM? ...smile... just an idea...

Well, I did the Bitcoin gadget.. then Litecoin and Namecoin... long before Ethereum... and then crypto exploded and I figured that this approach wouldn't work anymore. So I created MyCoins as a kind of general crypto gadget for any currency.

If there's interest I'd consider creating Ethereum version though. Functionality is the same, but basically having a preset exchange/rate and different background picture might be easier than having to set it up.

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Quote from: Domchi on June 03, 2018, 04:08:58 PM

Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 03:28:23 PM

.... since the browser requests still work would it not also work if the gadget would make there request simulating a browser? ... just an idea....

Windows gadgets are actually running in Internet Explorer, and they use IE to make requests, and unfortunately don't have much of a choice how their requests are executed. The fact that exchanges put their APIs behind different CDNs which are designed to detect human users doesn't help, I've had experience with several exchange APIs not working for one reason or the other. I've seen CDNs block specific browser versions, or specific browsers without Javascript enabled and so on. What I'm saying is, unfortunately, that I don't know why Bitstamp API is refusing those connections, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to fix it. Sad

We'll see if this is permanent or not though.

... now that i know that all requests of gadgets go through the IE i found the "glitch".
By activating all TLS protocols in IE the gadget requests to Bitstamp work again.

Thank you again for you kind help.

PS: since we are already here "chatting" i was wondering: Why is there no dedicated gadget for ETHEREUM? ...smile... just an idea...

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Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 03:28:23 PM

.... since the browser requests still work would it not also work if the gadget would make there request simulating a browser? ... just an idea....

Windows gadgets are actually running in Internet Explorer, and they use IE to make requests, and unfortunately don't have much of a choice how their requests are executed. The fact that exchanges put their APIs behind different CDNs which are designed to detect human users doesn't help, I've had experience with several exchange APIs not working for one reason or the other. I've seen CDNs block specific browser versions, or specific browsers without Javascript enabled and so on. What I'm saying is, unfortunately, that I don't know why Bitstamp API is refusing those connections, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to fix it. Sad

We'll see if this is permanent or not though.

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Quote from: Domchi on June 03, 2018, 01:30:41 PM

Don't worry about it, it's what I'm here for.

OK, that definitely means the issue is not with the settings or gadget itself as for me both new and old URL are working fine and data gets updated.

...actually, correction, WERE working an hour ago. It seems that now my gadget can't connect as well, to both new and old URL, and even if I try connecting through VPN from another country (and IP). Maybe Bitstamp is blocking older browsers (gadget uses IE under the hood) or simply has some API problems?

I'd recommend using some other exchange and trying again in a day or two. Something is fishy though. I can't fix the gadget as it's not an issue in the gadget, but if more users are seeing this I'll have to change default exchange in gadget to some other exchange. Anybody else experiencing this with Bitstamp?

.... since the browser requests still work would it not also work if the gadget would make there request simulating a browser? ... just an idea....

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Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 01:06:57 PM

Did that. Just changed the URL to "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/ethusd/". -> same resault .... N/A

(the default URL by the way is the old Bitstamp URL and that did also not work)

Want to thank you again for the time you are taking to help me.

Don't worry about it, it's what I'm here for.

OK, that definitely means the issue is not with the settings or gadget itself as for me both new and old URL are working fine and data gets updated.

...actually, correction, WERE working an hour ago. It seems that now my gadget can't connect as well, to both new and old URL, and even if I try connecting through VPN from another country (and IP). Maybe Bitstamp is blocking older browsers (gadget uses IE under the hood) or simply has some API problems?

I'd recommend using some other exchange and trying again in a day or two. Something is fishy though. I can't fix the gadget as it's not an issue in the gadget, but if more users are seeing this I'll have to change default exchange in gadget to some other exchange. Anybody else experiencing this with Bitstamp?

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Quote from: Domchi on June 03, 2018, 12:53:56 PM

Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 12:43:52 PM

Lets see what you see. Here my settings:

trading selected
correction + pool

https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/ethusd/
json.last

everything else is empty.

Wait, what do you mean - everything else is empty? There should be at least a few other fields with set defaults, for example mining data update interval, exchange data update interval etc.

If you have trading selected that means you're not using defaults as default has mining presets selected. Can you open another gadget, and change only the exchange URL, and not change any presets? Does that work?

Did that. Just changed the URL to "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/ethusd/". -> same resault .... N/A

(the default URL by the way is the old Bitstamp URL and that did also not work)

Want to thank you again for the time you are taking to help me.

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Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 12:43:52 PM

Lets see what you see. Here my settings:

trading selected
correction + pool

https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/ethusd/
json.last

everything else is empty.

Wait, what do you mean - everything else is empty? There should be at least a few other fields with set defaults, for example mining data update interval, exchange data update interval etc.

If you have trading selected that means you're not using defaults as default has mining presets selected. Can you open another gadget, and change only the exchange URL, and not change any presets? Does that work?

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Quote from: Domchi on June 03, 2018, 12:23:39 PM

Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 12:18:45 PM

Accessing Bitstamp API through the browser gives back the jason string (as you would expect). So i assume i am not blackflagged or anything at Bitstamp.

Settings are checked to exhaustion.

Really dont know where to change anything anymore...

Not that I don't believe you, but can you dump all your settings here? Two pairs of eyes might be better than one. And if we both positively have the same settings, then it's a network issue somewhere between you and Bitstamp.

Lets see what you see. Here my settings:

trading selected
correction + pool

https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/ethusd/
json.last

everything else is empty.

Domchi

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Quote from: CyranodeB. on June 03, 2018, 12:18:45 PM

Accessing Bitstamp API through the browser gives back the jason string (as you would expect). So i assume i am not blackflagged or anything at Bitstamp.

Settings are checked to exhaustion.

Really dont know where to change anything anymore...

Not that I don't believe you, but can you dump all your settings here? Two pairs of eyes might be better than one. And if we both positively have the same settings, then it's a network issue somewhere between you and Bitstamp.

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