Guide2j Enhancements

[jorm]

I am making some changes to guide 2j.

So far I have done
added AM/PM
I added a indicator if the show is a rerun or not.

Now I am looking into highlighting of shows based on types.

there are two indicators I can key off of.

One is called show type
values are like movie, series, special, paid programming, short film ....

the other is a much larger list called genere.
everything from
sitcom, comedy, darts, parenting, action, adventure (probably 70+)

what would users like me to key off of?

Also if you have any suggestions or problems with guide2j that have not been addressed here is your chance.

The genere and rerun info is only for zap users. It will still work for other users without those features.

[jorm]

If I only show the closest match this is the subset

Action
Adventure
Animals
Animated
Anime
Anthology
Art
Arts/crafts
Auto
Auto racing
Biography
Bus./financial
Children
Children-music
Children-special
Collectibles
Comedy
Comedy-drama
Community
Cooking
Crime
Crime drama
Docudrama
Documentary
Drama
Educational
Entertainment
Environment
Exercise
Fantasy
Fashion
Fundraiser
Game show
Health
Historical drama
History
Holiday
Home improvement
Horror
House/garden
How-to
Interview
Medical
Motorcycle
Music
Music special
Musical
Musical comedy
Mystery
Nature
News
Newsmagazine
Outdoors
Paranormal
Performing arts
Politics
Public affairs
Reality
Religious
Romance
Romance-comedy
Science
Science fiction
Self improvement
Shopping
Sitcom
Soap
Spanish
Special
Sports event
Sports non-event
Sports talk
Standup
Suspense
Talk
Travel
Variety
War
Weather
Western

[reven]

errr where would porno fit in?

[garetmax]

How about for Guide2J:

- An easy way to put in channel icons. I can't seem to figure out how to or where to put the icons or get the icon programs on the wiki to work.

- 4 characters for channel designations. It looks like 4 are available but the last one gets cut off 99% of the time.

- Do something like Video Archiver which has a nice way of showing what the 4 colored buttons on the remote do.

- When looking at a show that is scheduled to record, have some sort of flag/character to show this scheduled recording was the highest priority and it overrode a conflict. Then it would be nice to see a list of other shows that were not scheduled, (maybe a conflict button), and then have the ability to immediately select the other show if desired. Maybe this functionality could all be in Xrecord or both plugins.

[jrockintuitive]

Jorm, i would like to thank you for picking up the ball.

My life took a major turn a few months ago and i keep lying to myself that I can get back to my hobby.

Thank you Jorm

Here was my to-do list
1. Making it more skinnable (if needed)
2. Watch button (need subs help)
3. Have a better indicator if to show that the entire program is not rendered to screen. I have the << and >> maybe use something graphic
4. Integrate with zap
a. Color codes per genre
b. New epidsodes
c. Being able to bring up cast information

[jorm]

> If I try to manually enter a show to record that will conflict with a show the CDK scheduled I get a crash. In this example I select "Saturday Night Live" and schedule it. When I hit the schedule button I crash and GB-PVR actually locks up. There are no errors in gbpvr.exe.log though. Refer to the attached screenshots.

try removing gbpvrbackground something .dll in the plugin directory. Eventually I will write an installer and delete it for the users upon install.

[jorm]

I added the following so far will post in a few days

> cleaned up status logic so it does not cache it so we can get updates

> Do something like Video Archiver which has a nice way of showing what the 4 colored buttons on the remote do.
This should be able to be done via skinning. I know tipstir has done it for his xrecord skin. If he needs skinning hooks I will help him.

> Integrated with zap
> Color codes per genre (I need someone to take the list and come up with colors any volunteers) if not I will provide a list of generes and a hook.
> New episode indicator


Jrock,
No problem. Hopefully you are just busy not a bad turn.

[smeghead]

Is the latest version the one on the old wiki?

[jorm]

that is the latest that jrock posted. I have not posted my modified one yet. I will do so later today or tomorrow.

[smeghead]

Thanks for the quick reply jorm.

I started using it a number of months ago but had lots of problems. Do I have to use CDKScheduler with it or not. I'd prefer not as I like to know what's going on, I tend not to like things that I consider too helpful if you know what I mean - like some of the microsoft utilities for example......

Anyway it kept crashing whenever I tried scheduling anything. "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" and put back to the main menu. Nothing works then and I have to quit the program and restart it. Also no errors show up in the logs.