Can't get on IRC, have some questions about developing for MP (1 Viewer)

[TheGlassjaw]

Hey, yesterday I got the itch to implement the "watch trailer" feature that several people have requested. I downloaded and compiled the source yesterday but had a few questions/issues...

1) When trying to use the design view (to add an additional field for "trailer path") I get a bunch of errors in the IDE saying that fieldproperty17, 18, etc... haven't been properly declared or initialized and I am unable to proceed. I tried manually adding the field to the pane but it doesn't show up when I compile & test. I'm not familiar with GUI programming (I do mainly back-end PHP work...) so I'm not sure how I should go about adding the field.

I've never really used IRC before and can't seem to connect to the irc.freenode.net server. Perhaps you guys could guide me on there to continue this discussion instead of going through the forums.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[fforde]

As far as the IRC server, I am not sure what to tell you. If you are unfamiliar with IRC, maybe do a quick Google. You can use a dedicated IRC app like MIRC to logon or you can use something like Pidgin, which is a multi-purpose chat tool.

Briefly, as far as adding a field for a trailer on the Movie Manager, the contents of the panel are mostly auto generated based on the DBMovieInfo class. Simply addind a new database field to this class should add it to the Movie Manager as well.

But I would strongly recommend finding your way onto IRC to discuss what you are working on. If you just code something without talking to anyone about it, odds are it will conflict with some other future plans we have, or it will go against how the rest of the plugin is designed in which case it would just get rejected. We have had to toss more than one submitted patch simply because the person developing it never bothered to have a conversation with the Moving Pictures team, and the way they implemented something didn't fit in with our plans or with existing code.

 

[TheGlassjaw]

Ah, I just realized that my company has all ports but 80, 25, & 21 blocked in both directions, so that's probably why I can't connect. I'll try and set up an http tunnel for the irc ports and get on asap.