- Qt 6.5
- Qt Quick Demo - StocQt
- Qt 6.5.0 Reference Documentation

# Qt Quick Demo - StocQt

A configurable stock chart for the NASDAQ-100.

The StocQt application presents a trend chart for the first stock in the list of NASDAQ-100 stocks. It allows the user to choose another stock from the list, and fetches the required data from the offline dataset using `XMLHttpRequest`.

The application uses several custom types such as Button, CheckBox, StockChart, StockInfo, StockView, and so on. These types are used to present the stock data in a readable form and also let the user customize the trend chart. For example, the user can choose to view the weekly, monthly, quarterly, or half yearly trends in the stock price.

The application uses the ObjectModel type to access the two visual data models that it depends on.

             ListView {
                 id: root
             ...
                 model: ObjectModel {
                     StockListView {
                         id: listView
                         width: root.width
                         height: root.height
                     }

                     StockView {
                         id: stockView
                         width: root.width
                         height: root.height
                         stocklist: listView
                         stock: stock
                     }
                 }
             }

The StockListView model is a static data model listing the NASDAQ-100 stocks with basic information such as stockId, name, value, change, and so on. This data model is used by the application if the user wants to choose another stock from the list.

StockView is a complex data model that presents a trend chart for the selected stock. It uses another custom type, StockChart, which presents the graphical trend of the stock price using a Canvas. This data model is used for most of the time during the lifetime of the application.

     Rectangle {
         id: chart
         ...
             Canvas {
                 id: canvas
             ...
                 onPaint: {
                     numPoints = stockModel.indexOf(chart.startDate);
                     if (chart.gridSize == 0)
                         chart.gridSize = numPoints

                     var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
                     ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "source-over";
                     ctx.lineWidth = 1;

                     drawBackground(ctx);

                     if (!stockModel.ready) {
                         drawError(ctx, "No data available.");
                         return;
                     }

                     var highestPrice = 0;
                     var highestVolume = 0;
                     var lowestPrice = -1;
                     var points = [];
                     for (var i = numPoints, j = 0; i >= 0 ; i -= pixelSkip, j += pixelSkip) {
                         var price = stockModel.get(i);
                         if (parseFloat(highestPrice) < parseFloat(price.high))
                             highestPrice = price.high;
                         if (parseInt(highestVolume, 10) < parseInt(price.volume, 10))
                             highestVolume = price.volume;
                         if (lowestPrice < 0 || parseFloat(lowestPrice) > parseFloat(price.low))
                             lowestPrice = price.low;
                         points.push({
                                         x: j * xGridStep,
                                         open: price.open,
                                         close: price.close,
                                         high: price.high,
                                         low: price.low,
                                         volume: price.volume
                                     });
                     }

                     if (settings.drawHighPrice)
                         drawPrice(ctx, 0, numPoints, settings.highColor, "high", points, highestPrice, lowestPrice);
                     if (settings.drawLowPrice)
                         drawPrice(ctx, 0, numPoints, settings.lowColor, "low", points, highestPrice, lowestPrice);
                     if (settings.drawOpenPrice)
                         drawPrice(ctx, 0, numPoints,settings.openColor, "open", points, highestPrice, lowestPrice);
                     if (settings.drawClosePrice)
                         drawPrice(ctx, 0, numPoints, settings.closeColor, "close", points, highestPrice, lowestPrice);

                     drawVolume(ctx, 0, numPoints, settings.volumeColor, "volume", points, highestVolume);
                     drawScales(ctx, highestPrice, lowestPrice, highestVolume);
                 }
             }

             Text {
                 id: fromDate
                 color: "#000000"
                 font.family: Settings.fontFamily
                 font.pointSize: 8
                 Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignLeft
                 text: "| " + startDate.toDateString()
             }
             Text {
                 id: toDate
                 color: "#000000"
                 font.family: Settings.fontFamily
                 font.pointSize: 8
                 Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignRight
                 Layout.rightMargin: canvas.tickMargin
                 Layout.columnSpan: 5
                 text: endDate.toDateString() + " |"
             }
         }
     }

To understand the application better, browse through its code using Qt Creator.

#### Running the Example

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See also QML Applications.