INI, Text File Reader...

[zehd]

OK. A few PMs and we're flying. Thanks whurlston!!

[zehd]

As I was searching for the reason why my new Ultra would not run all the way through while NOT interacting with Desktop, I discovered that this bit of code was the culprit

Code:

xmltv.DateString = Now().ToShortDateString

[whurlston]

As I was searching for the reason why my new Ultra would not run all the way through while NOT interacting with Desktop, I discovered that this bit of code was the culprit

Code:

xmltv.DateString = Now().ToShortDateString

Any particular reason you are using that instead of "xmltv.Date = Now()" ?

The DateString in the build you have should be in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD". I'm adding more formats for the next build (part of that overall date/time issue). I'll have a new build for you in a couple of days but I'm swamped cleaning viruses in the other world at the moment.

[zehd]

Any particular reason you are using that instead of "xmltv.Date = Now()" ?

Reason?

The DateString in the build you have should be in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD". I'm adding more formats for the next build (part of that overall date/time issue). I'll have a new build for you in a couple of days but I'm swamped cleaning viruses in the other world at the moment.

I must have written that code when the date was looking wrong and that fixed it. Your suggestion works (of course)

For myself, I like the current format. It's like Metric. It makes sense.

Speaking of metric, let's also have the new metric time format. 10 months a year, 100 days in a month, 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour...

(I'll bet we'll still want our days to be 11 hours long...)

[whurlston]

Reason?



I must have written that code when the date was looking wrong and that fixed it. Your suggestion works (of course)

For myself, I like the current format. It's like Metric. It makes sense.

Speaking of metric, let's also have the new metric time format. 10 months a year, 100 days in a month, 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour...

(I'll bet we'll still want our days to be 11 hours long...)

I used the format produce by xmltv's na_dd grabber as a template. They use "YYYY-MM-DD" format so that's what I went with.

[zehd]

I used the format produce by xmltv's na_dd grabber as a template. They use "YYYY-MM-DD" format so that's what I went with.

I'm thinking that I could deal with the date display formats. Originally I was just having trouble comparing date values, but that was just me on the learning curve...

The New Ultra has a tab dealing with Dates and their formats, superseding one over the other, etc...

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On a slightly different note though, I've been working with different New Show detections, especially the code you provided...

Where your dll already 'tries' to detect IsNew, but then checks by dates against actual airdate...

How are you detecting the IsNew? Maybe there are other tells that we can fortify the check....

Within Ultra I have it checking for your IsNew, Previously-Shown dates and Date compare

(I've already got some other techniques used for around the world...)

[whurlston]

I'm not currently doing any checks on the IsNew field. If the file contains the <new /> tag, then IsNew is set to true, if not, it's set to false. I plan to add some methods to assist in this though.

[zehd]

I'm not currently doing any checks on the IsNew field. If the file contains the <new /> tag, then IsNew is set to true, if not, it's set to false. I plan to add some methods to assist in this though.

Well considering that I will be dealing with other detcteion methods, why don't I send you some samples, and techiques I used in Ultra 1... By implementing the checks in your DLL, it should be faster and more unified...

[whurlston]

Well considering that I will be dealing with other detcteion methods, why don't I send you some samples, and techiques I used in Ultra 1... By implementing the checks in your DLL, it should be faster and more unified...

Sure. Go ahead and email it to me. My PM box is pretty full.