Theater Listing v6.6

[Brian_W]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have released a new version of the Theater Listing Plug-In. You can download it here:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/uploads/Plugin/T..._Setup.zip

And for a list of changes, screenshots, check here:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugi...terListing

NOTE: If you are upgrading from a previous version, after you install, please delete the C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\theater folder contents, and refresh the listings. Certain situations can cause a null reference exception, and this will avoid that.

Hope everyone enjoys it.

Brian

[Fatman_do]

I want to publicly thank Brian_W for his work on updating this plugin.
He stepped in and fixed an error when the web site that the data was pulled from changed its format.

After that, he chose to make improvements in the plugin's internal workings, and try to make this plugin more skinnable as well.

He didn't have to do this. This type of "stepping in", when the plugin author (Jorm) doesn't have the time, is what helps this community and is greatly appreciated.

Thanks Brian.

Also, thank you Old Dog for the internal improvements you provided.

[Brian_W]

Glad I was able to help out. Hopefully people will find it useful

Brian

[acheyne]

Looks awesome from the screenshots! Any ETA on an international version?

[Brian_W]

Looks awesome from the screenshots! Any ETA on an international version?

Unfortunately I can't give any kind of timeframes other than "as my time allows". I noticed you are from Canada, one thing that will really help is if people could get me links to websites they use from other countries where they can get current local movie listings. Then I can check out the website and write a parser for it. My next project on the plugin is to modularize it a bit more so that it will be extremely easy to add new websites for listings.

If you have a website you use for Canada, please let me know and I can hopefully add support for it soon. Thanks.

Brian

[Spartan]

Unfortunately I can't give any kind of timeframes other than "as my time allows". I noticed you are from Canada, one thing that will really help is if people could get me links to websites they use from other countries where they can get current local movie listings. Then I can check out the website and write a parser for it. My next project on the plugin is to modularize it a bit more so that it will be extremely easy to add new websites for listings.

If you have a website you use for Canada, please let me know and I can hopefully add support for it soon. Thanks.

Brian

I don't know what you use to parse html, but the one I use (for the sports scores plugin) basically turns an HTML document into an XML doc that you can write xpath against. It's VERY handy. If interested, I'll dig up the link for you.

[Brian_W]

I don't know what you use to parse html, but the one I use (for the sports scores plugin) basically turns an HTML document into an XML doc that you can write xpath against. It's VERY handy. If interested, I'll dig up the link for you.

That would be great! I am currently using the html parser that was included in the Theater Plugin that Jorm originally wrote, but i was going to look into different ones or write my own for the new stuff. Thanks for the assistance!!

Brian

[Spartan]

That would be great! I am currently using the html parser that was included in the Theater Plugin that Jorm originally wrote, but i was going to look into different ones or write my own for the new stuff. Thanks for the assistance!!

Brian

Here you go:

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?P...gilitypack

I recommend using the assembly that I provide in the download of my plug-in to avoid any kind of file version mismatches. I think the download there is only for source code, but there is information about how to use it.

[kaffeen]

Thanks for the work on Theater. I am using it very happily.

Some IMDB links would be a nice touch in the future (perhaps even a dedicated IMDB module). The ability to purchase tickets directly through Fandango would be very cool.

Bravo!

[Brian_W]

Thanks for the work on Theater. I am using it very happily.

Some IMDB links would be a nice touch in the future (perhaps even a dedicated IMDB module). The ability to purchase tickets directly through Fandango would be very cool.

Bravo!

Links are all good and such, but this is still a PVR program being displayed on your TV and there is not a full web browser there. Unless there is something from the IMDB pages you would like to see in particular?

As far as purchasing of tickets through the plugin, I don't see that happening. Would open up huge potential for a security risk (do you want your credit card info, verification information, and other personal identifying info stored in a plugin database?) that I am not going to shoulder the responsibility for.

Brian