XGuide and XRecord skinning problems

[fla]

Here's a developer build that fixes a few issues in XGuide (source and binary attached). No news from the official maintainers so I'll keep sharing my fixes.

1) The white background is gone and genre color coding works
2) Aspect ratio of channel icon in record popup fixed
3) The schedule menu works for current watchable shows

Since the XGuide uses the zapinterface, make sure your PostUpdateEPG.bat updates the zapdb.mdb with a command like:

zapimport.exe > zapimport.log

Don't know if I lost this PostUpdateEPG command by installing other plugins but somehow I didn't have it even though I installed the XRecord suite. Look at the size and timestamp on your zapdb.mdb. It should be a couple Mb and be dated right after your last EPG update. See details about installing ZapTools

Once the zapdb.mdb contains valid EPG data, make sure you put metadata="true" in skin-horiz.xml if you were using the workaround of setting metadata to false. Save your old plugins and copy the new dll's to your plugin directory. The FastFindPlugin.dll needs to be in the gbpvr main directory as well as in the plugin directory for some reason.

To add/remove/change colors, edit the skin-schedule.xml file.

This is just a developer build I wanted to share because it works for me and I love this great plugin. Please wait for an official release from the authors of this plugin if you don't like beta versions. As soon as an official release is available on the wiki, I'll remove my attachement.

I'd love to hear some feedback if anyone tries it.

2006-05-10
Made the up and down arrow keys work in the schedule menu for current programs. It only used to work for future non-watchable programs. The "Watch" button was confusing the code that was relying on hard coded menu offsets making it impossible to reach the schedule button in the schedule popup menu.

[KingArgyle]

Fla, I'll give you developer access to the Sourceforge site so you can apply your patches to the official source. Just let me know what your sourceforge user id is.

[jorm]

Fla,

Thanks for the updates. If you need any help let me know.

[fla]

Hi Jorm,

Good to hear from you. No I haven't worked on the .NET 2.0 port yet so go ahead. I have checked in most of what I have done already so please do a CVS update. I logged a bug and resolved them with each checkin so anything I did is clearly documented.

Here's what I didn't check in:

1) Small fix in the imdb class to make movie poster downloads work again. (this works)

2) Added a new skinnable item for completed recordings as they currently get displayed the same color as scheduled recordings in the XGuide. (this works)

3) Trying to use commongbpvrutilities to make the tvtome (now tv.com) poster downloads work. (Not completed yet)

4) Small theater plugin fix on this thread

Not sure if you like the idea of depending on commongbpvrutilities for item #3?

Found a sourceforge project for the Theater plugin but couldn't browse the CVS code in #4.

BTW your PM box is full and refuses new PM's.

Love your plugins, your return is great news for GBPVR users!

fla.