MovieWiz v1.0.17.0 released

[JavaWiz]

Minor update with a few enhancements that have been suggested.


07/08/2008 : 1.0.17.0 (WizUiHelper 1.0.17.10, WizWebHelper 1.0.7.0)

• Plugin - Enable play (remote or keyboard (ctrl-p)) of target entry on any field regardless of which screen in plugin.
  
• Plugin - Allow user to select either Categories or Entries list for initial focus when MovieWiz activates. (MWConfig 'Plugin Settings')
  
• Plugin - When in Client Mode, allow user to set a program to run when MovieWiz activates. This will be useful to run WOL to startup the server. (MWConfig 'Settings(2)')
  
• Plugin - Minor skin updates to skin.xml
  

[Dan Soussi]

Hi JW,

The upgrade to V1.0.17.0 has an unexpected result on starting up MovieWiz Manager. I get the following .NET Framework error. The details are included, too.

This problem occurs every attempt to start MW Manager. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Dan

[JavaWiz]

Hi JW,

The upgrade to V1.0.17.0 has an unexpected result on starting up MovieWiz Manager. I get the following .NET Framework error. The details are included, too.

This problem occurs every attempt to start MW Manager. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Dan

Try downloading and re-installing again. Forgot to bump the version number on WizWebHelper.DLL, should be v1.0.7.1 now.

[Dan Soussi]

Hi JW,

Well done! That fixed the MovieWiz Manager start problem. I'll put it though it's paces.

I've noticed a problem with MW Manager. It's not new, but it does create a display problem. The attached error pops up, but MW Manager keeps going:

"Error translating column image. Exception of type 'SystemOfMemoryException' was thrown."

This happened last selecting the "Manage Categories" tab.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Dan

[JavaWiz]

Hi JW,
I've noticed a problem with MW Manager. It's not new, but it does create a display problem. The attached error pops up, but MW Manager keeps going:

"Error translating column image. Exception of type 'SystemOfMemoryException' was thrown."

This happened last selecting the "Manage Categories" tab.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Dan

Looks like it is a problem with the thumbnail image in one of the rows in the db. Next time it happens, zip up the logs directory and post, I'll see if I can track it down.

[iwan]

Minor update with a few enhancements that have been suggested.


07/08/2008 : 1.0.17.0 (WizUiHelper 1.0.17.10, WizWebHelper 1.0.7.0)

• Plugin - Enable play (remote or keyboard (ctrl-p)) of target entry on any field regardless of which screen in plugin.
  
• Plugin - Allow user to select either Categories or Entries list for initial focus when MovieWiz activates. (MWConfig 'Plugin Settings')
  
• Plugin - When in Client Mode, allow user to set a program to run when MovieWiz activates. This will be useful to run WOL to startup the server. (MWConfig 'Settings(2)')
  
• Plugin - Minor skin updates to skin.xml
  

Works nicely here !
Is there any particular reason to allow only clients the execution of a program before entering MW ? Just curious, as I have a samba-server, not a gbpvr-server.
What I did like best when upgrading was MW asking if an existing Moviewizard.xml in .../gbpvr/KeyMappings should be overwritten. Is this a new (secret) feature? Didn't notice it before.

[JavaWiz]

Is there any particular reason to allow only clients the execution of a program before entering MW ? Just curious, as I have a samba-server, not a gbpvr-server.

I make the call to the target program in the Activate() method, which gets called each time you select the plugin from the menu. The idea is, if the server is sleeping, the wakeup call occurs right before access is required to the database (on the server). I think there could still be timing issues as the server may take several seconds to 'wake up'. I'll be interested in feedback from users as to how this is working.

What I did like best when upgrading was MW asking if an existing Moviewizard.xml in .../gbpvr/KeyMappings should be overwritten. Is this a new (secret) feature? Didn't notice it before.

This may have been fixed just recently in the installer. If I recall, if the file exists, it will ask to overwrite, where as before it only did it if the timestamp (on disk) was newer.

[iwan]

I make the call to the target program in the Activate() method, which gets called each time you select the plugin from the menu. The idea is, if the server is sleeping, the wakeup call occurs right before access is required to the database (on the server). I think there could still be timing issues as the server may take several seconds to 'wake up'. I'll be interested in feedback from users as to how this is working.

What I was planning to do was using a small batch file to wake up the server and having MW start afterwards, like:

Code:

@echo off
:wach

REM check whether server is already awake

ping -n 1 192.168.1.10>NUL

if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto weiter
if ERRORLEVEL 0 goto ende

:weiter

REM send a magic packet to server

"c:\program files\util\wol.exe" #MAC-ADDRESS#

:aufwachen

REM ping server until it responds

echo .
ping -n 1 192.168.1.10>NUL
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto aufwachen

:shared

REM make sure samba-share is accessible

echo .
net view \\SERVER>NUL
if not ERRORLEVEL 0 goto shared

:ende
exit

thus circumventing problems when MW would start without an accessible samba-share.
BTW, I think, GB-PVR would then just jump back to the main menu, wouldn't it ?

[JavaWiz]

That looks like it should work. If MovieWiz cannot connect to db, I think an exception would be thrown, and it would go back to the menu.

[frankmcg]

Thanks for the update Java, working great here!