New Plugin: TV Listings (TV Guide Replacement)

[alibert]

Hi,

why not just do something like

Code:

if(File.Exists(imagedir + RemoveSpecialChars(showtitle)  + ".jpg"))
previewImage = Image.FromFile(imagedir + RemoveSpecialChars(showtitle)  + ".jpg");

that way when i download new images with my vids or whatever, it will be automatically visible in the the guide, the check only takes a few milliseconds so wont impact on the performance.

and i cant remember how the recording status thing happened, it may have just been a once off, and the logs are long gone by now.

Okay, I will think about it.

-alibert

[MixMan]

Just tried the plugin with the config....that uses MDB database.
Wanted to skin the plugin for the new CommonImage based Community skin.
But no EPG listings showed up. I guess SQLlite is an absolute requirement.?
Have you looked at the Community skin project? Please join its intentions.

[alibert]

Hi,

Just tried the plugin with the config....that uses MDB database.
Wanted to skin the plugin for the new CommonImage based Community skin.
But no EPG listings showed up. I guess SQLlite is an absolute requirement.?

it should also work with an access-database. I just checked it again and there were no issues. Please attach your GBPVR.exe.log, and I'll have a look. I only recommend sqlite as changes in access aren't immediately written to disk and the plugin uses a filesystem watcher to get notified when the database changes.

Have you looked at the Community skin project? Please join its intentions.

No, I haven't had a look at it. Is something wrong with the provided skin-file? It's mostly based on the default tv guide skin.

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

the next release is uploaded on the wiki:

Fixed a bug with season recordings when the programme has been scheduled and cancelled before, a programme’s icon will now be still loaded from the resource directory if the download from internet failed.

-alibert

[MixMan]

Hi,



it should also work with an access-database. I just checked it again and there were no issues. Please attach your GBPVR.exe.log, and I'll have a look. I only recommend sqlite as changes in access aren't immediately written to disk and the plugin uses a filesystem watcher to get notified when the database changes.


No, I haven't had a look at it. Is something wrong with the provided skin-file? It's mostly based on the default tv guide skin.

-alibert

The log file is full of lines like this:
Rollover complete...
8/17/2006 10:18:39 PM.296 ERROR [13] at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.ValueInt32()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader.GetInt32(Int32 ordinal)
at GBPVR.TVListings.DatabaseHelper.GetListingsForChannel(TVChannel channel, DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)
8/17/2006 10:18:39 PM.296 ERROR [13] TVListings: Error creating programme for channel 'CNN': Specified cast is not valid.
8/17/2006 10:18:39 PM.296 ERROR [13] at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.ValueInt32()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader.GetInt32(Int32 ordinal)
at GBPVR.TVListings.DatabaseHelper.GetListingsForChannel(TVChannel channel, DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)
8/17/2006 10:18:39 PM.296 ERROR [13] TVListings: Error creating programme for channel 'CNN': Specified cast is not valid.
8/17/2006 10:18:39 PM.296 ERROR [13] at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.ValueInt32()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader.GetInt32(Int32 ordinal)


We are making a new skin, the Community Skin.
Have a look at this page when the Wiki is up

Common Image based Skin Files
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ySkinFiles

[alibert]

Hi,

I've uploaded again a new release on the wiki.

The changes do mostly address MixMan's problem when using the access database - I hope it will work now.

I've also changed the skin.xml-file to go conform with the SpecialElement-names sub will be using in the TV Guide in v.0.98. The settings for brightening current shows and the recording status indicators can now be made here:

Code:

<SpecialElement name="Guide" loc="120,80" size="540,280" visibleChannels="7" guideMinutes="120" scrollMinutes="60" showNavigation="true" borderWidth="2" showStatusColor="false" showStatusIcon="true" brightenCurrentShowsPercent="16"/>

The old tags "BrightenOnAirProgrammes/percent", "useBackgoundColors" and "useIndicatorIcons" are no longer supported - there was a typo anyway. So make sure that you also update your skin.xml file.

-alibert

[MixMan]

Thanks alibert for fixing the MDB support

I just say WOW, this is a really great plugin. The search functions are perfect. I will use this plugin on a daily basis.

I have started to skin the plugin for the CommonImages skin.
I had to insert Button Composite Images into the XML, since they are to wide in the Community skins, baseskin.xml file

[alibert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded a new release of the plugin at the wiki.

Please make sure that you upgrade to the latest GBPVR-release (v0.98) before using the plugin, as it makes use of the new ISettings-interface, which makes many settings adjustable from within GBPVR (System/Settings-Screen).

Other changes are:

Added Amazon-Lookup, added support for the Settings screen in v0.98, image-files are also loaded from the resource-directory if they were added after activation of the plugin, fixed a bug with genre-colours and multiple genres of a single programme, recording-indicator-icons can also be used by the ‘Find More’-Popup.

I've already included the possibility to search on amazon, although I still have no answer from amazon regarding some legal issues, so this feature may be changed again in the near future.
I'm also not that happy with the usability of the FindMore-Popup, suggestions to the User Interface are greatly appreciated.

-alibert

[agerdin]

Thanks Alibert for an excellent plugin. It has all features I would like to have in the TV Listings and I am still exploring the different options.

However, I have 2 requests for changes/new functionality which relates to the lookup to Amazon. First I would like to find the option to lookup on the first popup screen and not hidden away at the bottom of the "find more" popup. Second, since many movies gets a title translation (in my case in Swedish) it will not find a match in Amazon and I would like to have the option to manually change the search criteria.

I hope these requests are resonable and doable.

\\Anders

[Heyt]

Hi alibert,

you liked to have some suggestions for the FindMore-Popup.
I think the Popup is completely overcrowded. For me a FindMore-Popup should just find recordings with the same title. Not more.

But actually i like the other functions. Maybe you could insert a real "Find-Popup" or create a "Find-Plugin".
There you could use all the things you have in your FindMore-Popup. Insert a search string with the number keys (mobile phone style) and then search the string within title, subtile or description. Maybe restrict the search to one channel or search in all. And a genre search mode would also be a great thing too. Maybe a list of genres on the left and on the right a list of found broadcasts for the selected genre.

Maybe i'm just dreaming ... but something like this would really be great.