myTrailers local showtimes extension (3 Viewers)
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neme5i5 - This weekend? This sounds great! This added feature will surely help the WAF! It will cut down on finding the paper then the correct section or going over to a computer and clicking over and over again to see the movies playing in the theater we like to visit.
Mike
Mike
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An update...
I'm back in the programming saddle again...Just got the most recent SVN in last night up and compiled and will be working on the rest of the code to get the showtimes into the GUI.
I'm back in the programming saddle again...Just got the most recent SVN in last night up and compiled and will be working on the rest of the code to get the showtimes into the GUI.
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Re: Has this project stalled?
Project hasn't stalled but life typically gets in the way. My weekday evenings are more open now that the summer is here and my wife and kids hang out at the cottage during the week and I stay at home. So my spare time will be working on this.
FYI, the author of the Movie Showtimes plugin from Meedio has a standalone application that does all the screen scraping and creates an XML of the showtimes. That part is done in my code. I've got the following left:
If you have any ideas of how the GUI should look like, let me know....I'm pretty much going to follow what's there for the myTrailers.
neme5i5 said:
Project hasn't stalled but life typically gets in the way. My weekday evenings are more open now that the summer is here and my wife and kids hang out at the cottage during the week and I stay at home. So my spare time will be working on this.
FYI, the author of the Movie Showtimes plugin from Meedio has a standalone application that does all the screen scraping and creates an XML of the showtimes. That part is done in my code. I've got the following left:
Auto updates from within MediaPortal (timer thread of some sort)
Manual updates from within MediaPortal (update button in GUI)
Integration into the myTrailers GUI
If you have any ideas of how the GUI should look like, let me know....I'm pretty much going to follow what's there for the myTrailers.
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James said:
Hey James,
do you or is there an example XML config I could look at. Not at my home PC right now to check it out but I have the latest SVN. I'm currently using an outside app from key_master, a Meedio developer, to do the work of the regex stuff. It creates an XML file that I then parse. However, it might need some of the code for the sites to be updated so the HTMLparsing library would work out then.
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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
Hi all,
I know that this is taking longer than expected but I am now starting back into coding this. Luckily or unluckily, I have a hard drive crash and because of that I've changed my method of attack on creating this plugin extension. There will be two portions to this plugin. A GUI component, which will extend the existing myTrailers piece and a process component that will handle the downloading and XML creation that will drive the data for the GUI component.
Good news is that I have the process plugin started and am just getting my head around it. Better news is that I am a bachelor for the next 5 days so I will spending all my free time on this.
Thanks for your patience...
Falkyre
Hi all,
I know that this is taking longer than expected but I am now starting back into coding this. Luckily or unluckily, I have a hard drive crash and because of that I've changed my method of attack on creating this plugin extension. There will be two portions to this plugin. A GUI component, which will extend the existing myTrailers piece and a process component that will handle the downloading and XML creation that will drive the data for the GUI component.
Good news is that I have the process plugin started and am just getting my head around it. Better news is that I am a bachelor for the next 5 days so I will spending all my free time on this.
Thanks for your patience...
Falkyre
falkyre - I hope everything is ok. We haven't heard from you since July! I hope you come back!! This extension to the myTrailers would be so sweet to have!!
Has anyone heard from falkyre since his last being on this forum?
Has anyone heard from falkyre since his last being on this forum?
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Hey guys I'm still around but again life has interrupted (as it tends to do with kids etc). Sorry about that, I know I have dropped off for a while but I've had two systems die including my main dev system and I have just got it back to being where I want it. I know that there are quite a few people who'd like to see this plugin happen and I do as well (which is why I started writing it in the first place). Overall, it's been a terrible 6 months of hardware for me (alot crashing at the same time or very close to each other). The bonus is new hardware for me, the bad side effect is it really slows things down developing.
falkyre - Family always takes first place in our lives, even above jobs. As long as you aren't gone forever and are planning to come back to complete it, that is good enough for me. I can always get on another computer to look up the movie or call the theater. Sometimes we forget how to do things before computers! Hope you are able to sort out your hardware issues - I know what that is like trying to fix daughter (away at college) computer with limited funds!