Thread: Movie Listings... Coming to an RR near you!

ok fellas here's the latest release

-i fixed and made all requests in the thread, added navigation, added custom list info screen (tho its not really usable.. i still need a correct delimiter to make it work).

-i added some fail-safes..the plugin may need a few more

- the moviezip is now changed. First it looks for the CURRENTZIP label, if that is found then that zip is used to pull movies. If that label is found/occupied then it reads the $MOVIEZIP$ var from skin.ini. If no var is present/defined then you must enter a zip. That zip is then saved to skin.ini as the default.

- added enforcers variables

- added a movietimeserror.skin that will display errors (if details is pressed before movies are captured, if navigate cant find the movie theater, etc)

- some other improvements i cant think of


Please note i did NOT create the expanded theater buttons, but i did expand the initial list of theaters to pull up to 15 theaters. If this is not enough and i need to add the "NEXTTHEATERS" button just let me know. I plan to (somehow) sort the list by proximity at some point.

download the whole package and overwrite anything u've made so far (excluding skins if they are custom of course).

Cool,


may not get chance to look at it till tomorrow as I seem to have my own problems at the moment.

Navigate button doesnt work.
Brings up my GPS skin, but nothing else after that.
Also,
I am having trouble with the pgup, pgdown, up and down buttons on the movie info screen.

One more bug or issue I noticed.
When clicking through the theaters list. It starts to not retrieve movie info.
It allways happens after I click to get info from the IMAX theater. Possibly because it is not listing the full name correctly. MAYBE. The name in the list comes up as IMAX& every other theater seems to work fine.
Also sometimes the movie times dont come up. This maybe a theater listing issue and nothing to do with your program.

Oh yeah using zip code 53214

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

Navigate button doesnt work.
Brings up my GPS skin, but nothing else after that.
Also,
I am having trouble with the pgup, pgdown, up and down buttons on the movie info screen.

did you read the readme on how to hack iguidance so that it works?. the PGUP,PGDOWN etc buttons dont work on the info screen if your'e using the LABEL and not the custom list john requested (thats a bit too buggy to use right now)

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

One more bug or issue I noticed.
When clicking through the theaters list. It starts to not retrieve movie info.
It allways happens after I click to get info from the IMAX theater. Possibly because it is not listing the full name correctly. MAYBE. The name in the list comes up as IMAX& every other theater seems to work fine.
Also sometimes the movie times dont come up. This maybe a theater listing issue and nothing to do with your program.

I noticed a little while ago that the IMAX theaters are buggy.. i forgot about it in all honesty though. i'll check it out. as for other theaters that dont work can you tell me the name of them so i can check the site to see if its yahoo error or my error.

fixed the "IMAX" theater list issue. also added notification if no movies are playing at a given theater.. which is the case with imax, times cinema, charles alis art museum and possibly more for zip code 53214. Looks like those theaters dont report that data to yahoo.

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

I am having trouble with the pgup, pgdown, up and down buttons on the movie info screen.

Same issue here I'm afraid. (probably was there before but because you seemed to have fixed the issue with not all the data being there it is now noticeable)

Also it stays in the main screen for quite a while after you press the details button. I know this is while it downloading the info, but I wouold prefer it to go to the detials screen and then have a label saying getting info or something.

Poster Art still doesn't work (have checked posters are in folder and I have the line

I,647,054,132,123,"FILE;$MOVIETIMESPOSTER$:A"

in both movie .skin files

Also, I take it you are waiting on Guinio for clickable custom lists, so you can click on a theatre to get the movies, and click on the movie to get details?


This is fun, putting requests and bugs in someone plugin thread while getting bugs and requests in my plugin thread.

Same issue here I'm afraid. (probably was there before but because you seemed to have fixed the issue with not all the data being there it is now noticeable)

there's not much i can do about the direction buttons because you cant currently scroll a label with them. If i get the information imported into a custom list then u'd be able to use those buttons. but as of now there's really no use for them.

Also it stays in the main screen for quite a while after you press the details button. I know this is while it downloading the info, but I wouold prefer it to go to the detials screen and then have a label saying getting info or something.

i'll see what i can do there, the info is pulled during the parsing function though so this may be more difficult than it seems.

Poster Art still doesn't work (have checked posters are in folder and I have the line

I,647,054,132,123,"FILE;$MOVIETIMESPOSTER$:A"

in both movie .skin files

poster art i think i have solved... tho i dont quite understand why. the path was created with app.path + "\Poster art\" + imageName. dont know why app.path would have problems being set by rr but i changed app.path to rr's path.

Also, I take it you are waiting on Guinio for clickable custom lists, so you can click on a theatre to get the movies, and click on the movie to get details?

i pretty much dropped that idea as i dont liket he way it worked in practice. Its doable but kinda pointless