Web Data Board Applique Version 2.3

Features

on Ubuntu16.04

• Applique displays text data getting from various web pages, one item per line. Specify their URLs and paths.
• You can refresh the data any time. If a change is found, the line blinks.
  When you select the line, its previous data is shown on the statusbar.
  When you double-click the line, the associated web page opens in the default browser.
• Applique runs on Ubuntu.
• You can use Applique for free.

Menu Description

Main menu

File	Quit	Quits Applique.
Edit	Cut Selected Item	Copies the selected item to the Clipboard, and deletes it.
	Copy Selected Item	Copies the selected item to the Clipboard.
	Paste Item	Copies the item from the Clipboard, and appends it.
	Delete Selected Item	Deletes the selected item.
	Append Item	Shows the Append Item window for specifying data location, prfix, suffix and text color. When you click OK, a new item is appended as you specified.
	Edit Selected Item	Shows the Edit Item window for changing the item settings. URL: URL of the target web data. XPath: Specifies the HTML element that has the web data. You can get the XPath with Chromium or Chrome browser as follows. Open the web page in the browser. Right-click on the web data, and choose Inspect in the context menu. HTML is shown in the right side. Right-click on the highlighted HTML, and choose Copy > Copy XPath in the context menu. Paste the copied XPath in the XPath entry. In case the XPath entry is left blank, Applique tries to get the last modified data/time of the web page. Prefix: Text to prepend to the web data. Suffix: Text to append to the web data. Text Color: Click the Pick Color button to show the Pick Color dialog. Choose color for the text.
	Preferences	Shows the Preferences window. Refresh on start: If checked, Applique executes Refresh on start. Timeout Interval: Each connection to the web server is closed after the specified timeout period. Font: Shows the Select Font dialog.
View	Refresh	Gets the most up-to-date web data for each item.
	Browse Data Source Page	Opens the web page that the selected item gets the data from in the default browser.
Help	About This Application	Displays information about Applique.

Popup menu

Cut Selected Item	Same as the main menu item of the same name.
Copy Selected Item
Paste Item
Delete Selected Item
Append Item
Edit Selected Item
Browse Data Source Page

Notes

• Applique creates the file ".applique" in your home directory. The settings are saved to it, and restored at the next launch.

Download and Install

1. Click applique_2.3.2_all.deb to download.
2. Double-click on the downloaded file applique_2.3.2_all.deb.
   Ubuntu Software will start and show applique.
3. Click on the Install button there.
   Applique will be installed.

• To uninstall Applique, launch Ubuntu Software and find Stamper then click on the Remove button.
  In case Applique is not found, try again after logout and login.

Revision History

• Version 2.0 -> 2.1:
  • The horizontal scrollbar became always hidden.
  • The label of the Edit Item dialog box changed: "Color:" -> "Text Color:"
  • The menu item name changed: "Add Item" -> "Append Item"
• Version 2.1 -> 2.2:
  • There was a chance that translation for Qt components failed.
    This bug was fixed.
• Version 2.2 -> 2.3:
  • Changed to accept table data with missing "tbody" tag.
  • Changed not to replace previously fetched data with an error message.