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

**JohnWPB** · 02-04-2008, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i would LOVE to do this and have been searching for a solution. I'm trying to replace numosk with "ziposk" or some other form of osk, the only problem is if i do that it doesnt work the same way numosk does. the zip code never gets stored in the variable. I'll have to talk to guino about this because i'm sure its just a problem with my lack of knowledge of rr's coding

As the code is internal to your extension plugin, I can't test the following to see if it would work or not. It should fire up the NUMOSK, let you enter the zip, then when done fire the MOVIETIMES command. Just replace the var name and such below to match what you use in the plugin. Hopefully it will work

(This is how it would look in the exectbl.ini)

Code:

"MOVIEZIP","NUMOSKTOCMD;YourVar;VarSettings||MOVIETIMES"

**Custommx3** · 02-04-2008, 10:15 PM

I made a skin that you can use w/ your beta release.

Thanks for making this plug-in, its gonna be very useful.

**ThunderStick** · 02-05-2008, 11:12 PM

Just got the I-Lists working for my movie times skin. This thing is getting awesome. Now if only that "Navigate" button actually worked....HMMM

**Sonicxtacy02** · 02-06-2008, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by ThunderStick

Just got the I-Lists working for my movie times skin. This thing is getting awesome. Now if only that "Navigate" button actually worked....HMMM

that will be the hardest thing to get unfortunately.. but i'm definitely not giving up on it. The problem lies in the fact that i cant pull lat and lon for the movie theater from the site, so what i'll have to do is take the address, send it to another site (steve morse's conversion site) and convert the street address to lat/lon, THEN send it to iG. I will make it so that the conversion variables are saved to a .dat file tho its not neccessary to send the data out every time the plugin is run.

**JohnWPB** · 02-06-2008, 09:59 AM

Sonic, is there a way to expand the search area? In my case, I am in between the "radius" zipcode of the theaters that I go to most often. I either have to enter a zip to the north of me, and to the south of me to get all of my theaters, and then compare.

OR, even a way to define the theaters that we want to use. There are a few of them in both the zips that I put in that I do not go to (Old run down theaters ect).

Again, this plugin is working for the most part flawlessly! I am just asking . offering suggestions on tweaking it out a bit is all.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 02-06-2008, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Sonic, is there a way to expand the search area? In my case, I am in between the "radius" zipcode of the theaters that I go to most often. I either have to enter a zip to the north of me, and to the south of me to get all of my theaters, and then compare.

OR, even a way to define the theaters that we want to use. There are a few of them in both the zips that I put in that I do not go to (Old run down theaters ect).

Again, this plugin is working for the most part flawlessly! I am just asking . offering suggestions on tweaking it out a bit is all.

i dont think a selectable radius is available like i once envisioned because yahoo doesnt have an input for radius. What i'll do tho is check to see if maybe the URL has a variable for radius that i just dont know about. That happened to me on the traffic plugin so it could be happening here as well.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 02-06-2008, 10:52 AM

ok so there's no number i can change for radius, however there is a larger list of theaters available. For your particular zip code i found a max of 30 theaters. The problem is yahoo splits the data onto two webpages. So the option at that point is either:

a) pull from all pages, thus making the program a little slower
b) create a MORETHEATERS command that will pull from the concurrent pages of theaters and add them to the existing custom list.

which would you prefer?

**Sonicxtacy02** · 02-06-2008, 11:34 AM

ugh i'm still having problems with the unicode text at the end of the movie description. anyone with vb knowledge wanna tell me why using mid() on a string containing "..." (without quotes) shows funky unicode text? i tried both binary compare and text compare and it happens with both options

**JohnWPB** · 02-06-2008, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

a) pull from all pages, thus making the program a little slower
b) create a MORETHEATERS command that will pull from the concurrent pages of theaters and add them to the existing custom list.
which would you prefer?

I think B would be the better solution. This way it does not slow down the script as you have it now. BUT invoking the MORETHEATERS command, can then add the rest of the theaters IF someone wants to see more theaters in their area.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

ugh i'm still having problems with the unicode text at the end of the movie description. anyone with vb knowledge wanna tell me why using mid() on a string containing "..." (without quotes) shows funky unicode text? i tried both binary compare and text compare and it happens with both options

Hmmmm I do not think that is the "end of the description", as whenever I see it, it is in mid sentence. I think it is probably some sort of html / chr$ or something that on the site would read <More>, or something like that. If you look a few posts back at a screen cap I posted, the sentence reads "A bitter sweet memory of lost<Unicode chars here>. It is not a complete sentence, meaning there is more to the description than what is showing.

Did the code above help at all with the entering the zipcode, and then automatically then RELOADing when ENTER is pressed on the NumOSK?

Sonic, I am on Yahoo and MSN if you want o IM me, johnwpb at my gmail.com address for MSN and johnwpbfl on yahoo if you lost em. I see Dawn is on, or is that you?

**Sonicxtacy02** · 02-06-2008, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I think B would be the better solution. This way it does not slow down the script as you have it now. BUT invoking the MORETHEATERS command, can then add the rest of the theaters IF someone wants to see more theaters in their area.

Hmmmm I do not think that is the "end of the description", as whenever I see it, it is in mid sentence. I think it is probably some sort of html / chr$ or something that on the site would read <More>, or something like that. If you look a few posts back at a screen cap I posted, the sentence reads "A bitter sweet memory of lost<Unicode chars here>. It is not a complete sentence, meaning there is more to the description than what is showing.

Did the code above help at all with the entering the zipcode, and then automatically then RELOADing when ENTER is pressed on the NumOSK?

Sonic, I am on Yahoo and MSN if you want o IM me, johnwpb at my gmail.com address for MSN and johnwpbfl on yahoo if you lost em. I see Dawn is on, or is that you?

its dawn.. i dont have msn at work unfortunately. i will implement option b because i agree it is better. As for the description, its NOT the end of it.. but what the geniuses at yahoo did was basically the same thing they did for theaters.. they have the whole description spaced out on 3 to 4 pages with ... seperating the pages. If the entire description is wanted i could do that but again it would require option a or be again lol.

if i'm not being clear on how its laid out check this page for atonement out.

http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/search/movie...Fzip%253D33840

if you press "more" more of the description is shown. Now there may be something within the hyperlink telling the browser to split up the data but as you can see.. thats a big *** hyperlink lol.

btw, i havent tried the zip code solution yet, i found a few more bugs i've been working on. I'm gonna search for the solution for the "..." prob them get to the zip code. If anyone has noticed any other weirdness in the label display (like &amp instead of "&") those problems have been sorted. i also found a solution for the "star rating" indicators