GetTheaterlisting Not working

[jorm]

srcChuck,

I am not sure if you fixed this one yet, but in the TheaterTask one of the methods.

public string getDescription()
{
return "View your address book";
}


I forgot to update the string.

I know you have made some other fixes for this file.

What would be nice is if we can get sub or someone else to host a cvs server so we can have multiple people updating the code.

[web_maven]

srchuck

YES! (I don't mean to shout) Movies, Movies, Movies. Show everything and let the user deselect what they don't want. Show the Current moves and theater rating (PG, PG13 etc.) reviews (I would think just Stars rating is fine review can be very long), Show a listing of DVD that are out and Just released and if it's listed what is about to be released.

Raymond

[jorm]

A Bit excited.

Remember there is only so much room on the screen. And only so much we can do with the interface.

[web_maven]

Is there an ability to page the content.

For example, I select my movie and I go to a screen with just that content, hitting excape, menu button or arrow key brings me back to my last screen. With this ability you can put a lot more content on the screen.

A good example is the weather plugin. I can have several locations to look and using the arrow keys I can see the weather in different locations.

I have worked with a lot of developers any you always put restrictions, let the user decide.

I should start a web site "FreeTheUser.com"

Raymond

[arttext]

Well, my first priority would be (in the theaters plugin) to get local info, but I already advertised that in another thread (up till now to no avail) and I do realise that it's no priority if you already have that info. And apparently there are not much Dutch GB-PVR users who are also coders .
As far as the IMDB plugin is concerned, the only thing I would like to see is a cast (problably scrollable)

Anyway I love all initiatives here, Thank you guys!

[srchuck]

Sorry I've been absent for a while, life has been very busy lately.. I've been putting in very long and tiring hours at work. As a side effect, I've not been able to put in any time on my new pet project. Thanks for the suggestions, they sound like a good idea..

Actually, I've been working on an independent application just for some testing, which grabs movie info from IMDB. All I need is a good HTML parser written in C# so I won't have to do so much ugly, kludgy stuff.

jorm, I haven't touched the source for the actual plugin yet - just the GetTheaterListings app. I'm thinking to put a GUI frontend on it, to make life easier for folks.

I'll try to free up some time to work on this stuff soon, but keep the ideas rolling and I'll take them into consideration!

jorm, how would you feel about hosting joint plugin projects on sourceforge or something similar? Free CVS access sounds pretty good to me...

[srchuck]

Quote[/b] (web_maven @ Sep. 23 2004,11:58)]srchuck

YES! (I don't mean to shout) Movies, Movies, Movies. Show everything and let the user deselect what they don't want. Show the Current moves and theater rating (PG, PG13 etc.) reviews (I would think just Stars rating is fine review can be very long), Show a listing of DVD that are out and Just released and if it's listed what is about to be released.

Raymond

I liked the idea of including these features for at least the lookup.. I'll work with jorm and anyone else that wants to lend a helping hand to see what can be included to function in the UI. Perhaps we could do something similar to the Weather plugin? It has a good layout, and shouldn't be too hard to adapt...

[jorm]

srcchuck,

that sounds cool.  We could use the sourceforge page for all of the plugins that people want to participate with.

If you want I can email you the source for parsing the imdb from the imdb plugin.

Jorm

[Guest]

Does anyone know why I would not see the actual theater names? If I click on the empty field where the theater names should be the movies show up to the right and then I can get the times to show up below. Nothing seems to be missing in the folders. The xml file correctly lists the cinema theaters.

Thanks!
John

[srchuck]

John,

I had noticed the same thing before I had modified the sources. I think Fandango changed a little of their formatting, so the HTML parsing just needed updated. I'm working on tuning up an HTML parser I found somewhere else online (licensed under LGPL) which should help to cure some of the parsing headaches..

Try downloading this version of GetTheaterListings and see if the plugin shows your theater listings after using it:

http://gcm.dnsalias.org/GetTheaterListings-SrChuck.zip

jorm,

Why don't we go ahead and set up some kind of GB-PVR plugins CVS? I think it would help our productivity a bit :-) I also wouldn't mind checking out your IMDB grabber source. I could send you my own IMDB grabber source too, if you'd like. I had been working on one independently, mostly as a learning project.