WizTools - 1.x Plugin Development Toolkit

[JavaWiz]

I think it will now, but I think there is going to be a move to not put stuff in the gbpvr directory later on. Its part of the "Vista-isation" of gbpvr. Vista seems to get a bit snotty about files changing in the program files directory....but I don't know how much that affects dll references.

I'm pretty sure sub made some changes so it will ALWAYS look in the common directory. This works on W2K, but not sure about VISTA.

[JavaWiz]

Updated to new version (see 1st post on this thread)

09/05/07 : v1.0.7
* Added Enabled, setButtonEnabled, isButtonEnabled to WizUiButtonList
* Updated WizUiHelperPlugin demo to include a Popup Sample.

[McBainUK]

Hi. Just wondering how the IMDB lookup works as I'm only getting a 1 in 5 hit rate from it?

Those it couldnt find all seem to cause the IMDB 'Firefox search' to get to a page like this rather than the actual film page.

(Title examples and results from my log)

Code:

06/09/2007 16:42:55    IMDB Grabber - Found film '1408'
06/09/2007 16:42:56    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Bratz: The Movie'
06/09/2007 16:42:58    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Death Sentence'
06/09/2007 16:43:00    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Knocked Up'
06/09/2007 16:43:02    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'No Reservations'
06/09/2007 16:43:22    IMDB Grabber - Found film 'Run Fat Boy Run'
06/09/2007 16:43:25    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Surf's Up'
06/09/2007 16:43:28    IMDB Grabber - Found film 'The Simpsons Movie'

Using Google's 'feeling lucky' for "Death Sentence" imdb takes you straight to the correct page. Maybe something the grabber could make use of?

[JavaWiz]

Hi. Just wondering how the IMDB lookup works as I'm only getting a 1 in 5 hit rate from it?

Those it couldnt find all seem to cause the IMDB 'Firefox search' to get to a page like this rather than the actual film page.

(Title examples and results from my log)

Code:

06/09/2007 16:42:55    IMDB Grabber - Found film '1408'
06/09/2007 16:42:56    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Bratz: The Movie'
06/09/2007 16:42:58    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Death Sentence'
06/09/2007 16:43:00    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Knocked Up'
06/09/2007 16:43:02    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'No Reservations'
06/09/2007 16:43:22    IMDB Grabber - Found film 'Run Fat Boy Run'
06/09/2007 16:43:25    IMDB Grabber - Could not find film 'Surf's Up'
06/09/2007 16:43:28    IMDB Grabber - Found film 'The Simpsons Movie'

Using Google's 'feeling lucky' for "Death Sentence" imdb takes you straight to the correct page. Maybe something the grabber could make use of?

It basically parses the results from the IMDB search http request. I'll take a look at your entries and see what is going on. Also, good idea about checking out the Google query, I'll look into it.

[McBainUK]

I'm making use of the IMDB grabber in the updater.exe for Cinema Listings plug-in. This runs outside of GB-PVR as an external app.

I've put the latest version of the WizUiHelper.dll in gbpvr\Plugins\common\ but unless I copy GBPVRPublic.dll there it fails to load, reporting the error below.

Could not load file or assembly 'GBPVRPublic, Version=1.0.2763.18991, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057

Anything you/I can do about this?

[JavaWiz]

I'm making use of the IMDB grabber in the updater.exe for Cinema Listings plug-in. This runs outside of GB-PVR as an external app.

I've put the latest version of the WizUiHelper.dll in gbpvr\Plugins\common\ but unless I copy GBPVRPublic.dll there it fails to load, reporting the error below.

Anything you/I can do about this?

Possibly. Refer to this thread which talks about how to force a DLL lookup in a particular location if it is not found on the default search path: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...tcount=129

If you put the code referenced in the above thread in your calling application, AND have it look up in GBPVRInstallDir as well, the offending reference should resolve at run-time.

EDIT: Additionally, if you put gbpvr in your path, it will locate the DLL in question.


sub - if there is anything else you did to make the plugin/common lookup code work, could you chime in here for McBain and I?

[sub]

I've got it on my list of things to look into, but I dont really have any info for you yet.

[McBainUK]

If you put the code referenced in the above thread in your calling application, AND have it look up in GBPVRInstallDir as well, the offending reference should resolve at run-time.

I had that code already. The problem was that I never used GBPVR.Public in my code so it was never trying to load it. It was only when the program tried to use your dll (which does reference and load it) that it failed.

The fix was to put a arbitrary line using GBPVR.Public so it would run GBPVRPublic.dll through my AssemblyResolve event handler. Very pleased

[pastro]

Is there a way to make a wizuilist not be multiline? It automatically adds a second line when the text doesn't fit.
I know I can shorten the text to make sure it always fits, but I'd prefer it was truncated to a single line.

[pastro]

Probably something I am doing, but as I step through the controls it works correctly when I go to the left and it goes about halfway through if I go to the right and then it starts over. Any ideas?