ShowTimes Plugin Suite V2 (2009/12/30) (7 Viewers)

[Nephilim]

There are two plugins as part of this suite. The first plugin is a process plugin. It uses an external application to download movie showtimes for your local theaters. It allows for the option to schedule a download of movie data from IMDB or TMDB, Trailers, movie posters and FanArt from TMDB. It can also manage your downloaded posters and trailers and remove ones that are no longer required.
The second part of the plugin is the GUI portion that displays all of the data downloaded by the Grabber process plugin. The GUI has a screen that will work with many skin (skinners, please read below).
I have included in the zip file, a document that explains the way it all works together plus installation and configuration. In the zip there is a background picture for skinner who want to use it.

The following countries are already supported:
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Croatia
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

A couple of things to note:
1) After you set up the plugin you have to do a manual download from the Grabber Configuration first.
2) Picking your movie theaters varies by country. Some can do it by zip/postal code, some by city and country.
3) You can set several cities. Just separate each city with the "|" (pipe) character.
4) You can manually update tha data by pressing the “Context Menu” button (F9)
5) The display of Fan-Art is Skin dependant. If your skin does not show the backdrops, ask the author to implement this feature.
There are some other things in the documentation included in the zip file, please read through it.

Skinning documentation (in the zip package too):

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Required components (menu - buttons):
<id>2</id> = Change View
<id>3</id> = Show Theaters
<id>40</id> = ShowTimes - only in details view
<id>41</id> = Play Trailer - only in details view
<id>42</id> = Next - only in details view
<id>43</id> = Previous - only in details view
Required components (fadelabels):
<id>46</id> = ShowTimes Control - should be set off screen - used for determining if theater was selected - Control.HasText(46)
<id>47</id> = TheaterList Control - should be set off screen - used for determining if currently in theater/date list view - Control.IsVisible(47)
Required components (images):
<id>23</id> = Movie Border
<id>24</id> = Movie Poster - used for determining if currently in details view - Control.IsVisible(24)
Required components (facade):
<id>50</id> = listcontrol, thumbnailpanel, filmstrip
GUI properties:
#selecteditem = selected facade item - textual - use if you like
#showtimes_nextupdate = next data update - textual
#st_backdrop = backdrop, fanart - use it with image
#st_poster = poster of the movie - use it with image - control id 24 and/or other if you'd like to have poster in list view
#st_title = movie title
#st_theater = selected theater for showtimes - textual - filled only if theater and showtimes day was selected
#st_moviedate = selected date for showtimes - textual - filled only if theater and showtimes day was selected
#st_showtimes = showtimes - textual - filled only if theater and showtimes day was selected
#st_rating = mpaa rating of the selected movie - textual
#st_userrating = user rating / IMDB rating of the selected movie - textual
#st_genre = genre of the selected movie - textual
#st_runtime = runtime of the selected movie - textual
#st_releasedate = release (premiere) date of the selected movie - textual
#st_plot = plot of the selected movie - textual
#st_director = director of the selected movie - textual
#st_starring = actors of the selected movie - textual
Useful hints:
Backdrops
If you'd like backdrop visible only in details set this visible status to control you use for backdrop (#st_backdrop) <visible>Control.IsVisible(24)</visible>.
Set <visible>yes</visible> if you want it visible at all times.
Some movies might not have backdrop, so remember to also use a default background in the skin file.
Poster
Control with id 24 that contains the poster will automatically become visible once you select the movie and enter details view. If you'd like poster in list view, create a new image control with <texture>#st_poster</texture> and <visible>facadeview.list+!Control.IsVisible(24)</visible>.
#selecteditem, #st_title and showtimes
Use <visible>!Control.IsVisible(24)+!Control.HasText(4 6)</visible> for a control containing property #selecteditem. The control will be shown only if not in details screen and if theater was not selected.
Control containing #st_title is probably visible only if in details screen and if theater was not selected (if you want, however the GUI property is valued and you can use #st_title and #st_showtimes in separate controls and position - like in Xfactor skin). Therefore <visible>Control.IsVisible(24)+!Control.HasText(46 )</visible>.
Now we're gonna add control containing the showtimes. The label will be something like <label>#st_title | #st_moviedate @ #st_showtimes</label>. It will be visible only if theater was selected: <visible>Control.HasText(46)</visible>.
Examples:

        //Show backdrop (fanart)
	<control>
		<description>fanart</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<texture>#st_backdrop</texture>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<visible>Control.IsVisible(24)</visible>
	</control>
        //Show poster in listview
	<control>
	        <description>list poster</description>
                <id>1</id>
                <type>image</type>
                <keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
                <posX>750</posX>
                <posY>300</posY>
                <width>257</width>
                <height>380</height>
                <texture flipY="true" diffuse="diffusemirrorwide.png">#st_poster</texture>
                <visible>facadeview.list+Control.HasFocus(50)</visible>  
       </control>	
        //Show controls only if a theater has been selected in details view
	<control>
   	      <description>Showtimes Control</description>
	      <type>fadelabel</type>
	      <id>46</id>
	      <posX>2110</posX>
	      <posY>2700</posY>
	</control>
		<control>
      		<type>fadelabel</type>
      		<description>Showtimes Label</description>
      		<id>0</id>
		<posX>310</posX>
		<posY>400</posY>
		<width>350</width>
      		<label>#st_showtimes</label>
		<align>left</align>
		<visible>control.isvisible(24)+control.hastext(46)</visible>
    	</control>
<!-- Show rating value -->
<control>
	<description>IMDB Rating Value</description>
	<type>imagelist</type>
	<id>32</id>
	<posX>26</posX>
	<posY>585</posY>
	<width>115</width>
	<height>13</height>
	<textureWidth>24</textureWidth>
	<textureHeight>24</textureHeight>
	<subitems>
		<subitem>starbad.png</subitem>
		<subitem>stargood.png</subitem>
	</subitems>
	<orientation>horizontal</orientation>
	<align>left</align>
	<imagesToDraw>10</imagesToDraw>
	<percentage>#st_userrating</percentage>
	<visible>Control.IsVisible(24)</visible>
</control>

NB - For Italian users: Per inserire una città che non è capoluogo di provincia dovete inserire prima il capoluogo di provincia poi il simbolo "/" e poi il comune. Per es. Tivoli in provincia di Roma si inserisce come: "Roma/Tivoli" (senza gli apici)
PS - For New Zealander users: Put one (or more) of the following "locations" in the city field: Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, Nelson-Tasman Bay, Bay Of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Waikato, Taranaki, Southland, Marlborough, Northland
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Versions:
MTSA: 4.9.1
Plugins: 2.4.1

Changelog:

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Initial release (2008/12/05):
- Recompiled against RC4
- Fixed download movie data from IMDb
MTSA 4.4.0 / Plugins 2.1.0 (2008/12/18):
- Released as MPI
- Download of FanArt and details from TMDB
- Fanart management
- Minor Bug Fixes
- Now the plugin can go back from details view by pressing the ESC key
MTSA 4.4.1 / Plugins 2.1.0 (2008/12/22)
- Fixed a bug in TMDB lookup
- Fixed a bug in "Remove Old Media"
MTSA 4.4.2 / Plugins 2.1.1 (2009/01/07)
- Fixed handling of special characters in German
- If no poster is available the file "{skin}/media/defaultVideoBig.png" will be used
MTSA 4.4.3 / Plugins 2.1.1 (2009/01/12)
- Fixed a bug handling posters in UK and Italy
MTSA 4.4.4 / Plugins 2.1.2 (2009/01/17)
- Fixed a bug handling backdrop in Italy
- Added Sweden (beta)
- Update grabber for France now with french trailers (beta)
- Fixed date format in France
- Fixed Spain grabber. No spanish trailers for now, sorry... (alpha)
- Added Skin for Project Mayem 3
- Added french translation
MTSA 4.5.0 / Plugins 2.2.0 (2009/01/24)
- Italy grabber fixed
- Sweden grabber fixed
- Spanish trailers added
- Now you can manually update tha data by pressing the “Context Menu” button (F9)
- Added the "Prefer english posters" and "Prefer english trailers" flags
- Improved speed of Impawards grabber
- Improved speed of Apple Trailer grabber
- Improved speed of MovieList grabber
- Manual updated
- Languages files updated for handling manual data refresh
- Blue3 Skin fixed
MTSA 4.5.1 / Plugins 2.2.1 (2009/01/29)
- Low quality posters and trailers fixed
- French grabber fixed
- Italy grabber fixed
- Added abilty to configure the hour of day for the grab
- Added "HD" trailer for Italy
MTSA 4.5.1 / Plugins 2.2.2 (2009/02/01)
- Fixed: when "HD480" trailer quality is selected grabbing doesn't start
MTSA 4.5.2 / Plugins 2.2.2 (2009/02/09)
- Fixed: Grabber for Sweden and Germany
- Fixed: FanArt handling
MTSA 4.5.3 / Plugins 2.2.3 (2009/02/15)
- Added: Grabber for New Zealand
- Optimization for Apple Trailers
MTSA 4.5.4 / Plugins 2.2.3 (2009/02/22)
- Fixed: Grabber for North America
- Optimization for ImpAwards
MTSA 4.5.5 / Plugins 2.2.4 (2009/03/01)
- Added support for Croatia (english trailers only, sorry...)
- MTSA now works with old configuration files too
- Optimization for Apple Trailers
- Fixed Poster issue for UK (max 4 downloadable days now)
MTSA 4.5.6 / Plugins 2.2.5 (2009/03/09)
- Better support for Croatia
- Fixed TMDB lookup
- Added #st_poster placeholder for showing poster in list view (see StreamedMP for an example)
- Now the #st_backdrop placeholder is visible in list/thunbnail view too
MTSA 4.5.7 / Plugins 2.2.6 (2009/03/23)
- Added support for South Africa
- Fixed ListView bug
- Changed source for Germany (backdrops should works now)
MTSA 4.5.8 / Plugins 2.2.7 (2009/04/18)
- Fixed some GUI bug (thx SilentExcept)
- Fixed Impawards Poster
- Added skin for XFactor
- Added ReleaseDate field
MTSA 4.6.0 / Plugins 2.3.0 (2009/05/04)
- Fixed TMDB bug
- Added Filmstrip view
- Now movie infos are loaded when a movie is selected in facadeview too
- Removed the gui controls and added some GUI properties instead. See above for a list.
MTSA 4.6.1 / Plugins 2.3.1 (2009/05/07)
- Fixed plot grabbing for Italy
- Fixed quote mark bug
- Fixed 1kb trailers bug
- Now the theaters are only displayed if there are dates present
- Added streaming for HD trailers too (please reconfigure your plugin)
- Added skinng documentation (thanks SilentExcept)
MTSA 4.6.1 / Plugins 2.3.2 (2009/05/07)
- Fixed "showtimes not present" bug
MTSA 4.6.2 / Plugins 2.3.3 (2009/05/07)
- Removed Control ID 45 (for skinners: you can use #showtimes_nextupdate GUI property)
- Fix: #showtimes_property not filled
- Added: play GUI properties filled (thumbnail included)
- Fix: Italian grabber
- Fix: Apple Trailers
- Some minor fixes
MTSA 4.6.3 / Plugins 2.3.4 (2009/05/09)
- Fixed: grabber for Croatia
- Fixed: bug in configuration
- Some minor fixes
MTSA 4.6.4 / Plugins 2.3.5 (2009/05/12)
- Fixed: grabber for France
- Fixed/optimized: Apple Trailer
- Fixed: broken Posters
- Some minor fixes
MTSA 4.6.5 / Plugins 2.3.5 (2009/05/15)
- Fixed: trailers for Italy
MTSA 4.6.6 / Plugins 2.3.6 (2009/05/18)
- Fixed: plot for Germany
- Fixed: trailer download for Italy
MTSA 4.6.7 / Plugins 2.3.7 (2009/05/20)
- Fixed: grabber for Belgium and Sweden
MTSA 4.6.8 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/05/27)
- Fixed: grabber for Italy (cities with a space between)
- Fixed: "Show All Movies" (ID 3) button disappear after a trailer is played (thx SE)
MTSA 4.6.9 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/11)
- Fixed: grabber for Italy (bad show times)
- Added: skin for PureVisionHD
- Updated: skin for XFace
- Better Apple Trailer lookup
- Better TMDB lookup
- Better IMDB lookup
- Better Movie-List lookup
MTSA 4.7.0 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/15)
- Fixed Apple Trailers
- Fixed italian trailers
MTSA 4.7.1 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/16)
- Fixed italian showtimes
MTSA 4.7.2 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/19)
- Fixed (a little) Apple Trailers bug
MTSA 4.7.3 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/23)
- Fixed (maybe) a bug in TMDB lookup.
MTSA 4.7.4 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/06/30)
- Fixed (a little) Apple Trailers bug
MTSA 4.7.5 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/07/13)
- Fixed Germany grabber
- Fixed Norway grabber
- Fixed a little bug in Italy grabber
MTSA 4.7.7 / Plugins 2.3.8 (2009/08/16)
- Fixed Germany grabber
- Fixed Netherland grabber
MTSA 4.7.8 / Plugins 2.3.9 (2009/09/01)
- Fixed Italy grabber (trailers)
- Added possibility to set the default view
- Star-rating compatibility (see sample in Skinning Documentation)
- Added control id 47 used for determining if currently in theater/date list view - and hide movie details in list view when selecting theater/date (see Skinning Documentation for details)
MTSA 4.7.9 / Plugins 2.3.9 (2009/09/02)
- Fixed grabber for Netherlands
MTSA 4.8.0 / Plugins 2.3.9 (2009/09/04)
- Fixed (again) grabber for Netherlands
- Fixed Apple Trailers
MTSA 4.8.0 / Plugins 2.4.0 (2009/09/07)
- Fixed a bug in the star-rating visualization
MTSA 4.8.1 / Plugins 2.4.0 (2009/09/09)
- Fixed: New Zealand
MTSA 4.8.2 / Plugins 2.4.0 (2009/09/15)
- Fixed: South Africa
MTSA 4.8.3 / Plugins 2.4.0 (2009/09/23)
- Fixed: Germany
- Fixed: Netherland
- Fixed: Italy
- Better Apple Trailers lookup
MTSA 4.8.4 / Plugins 2.4.0 (2009/09/24)
- Fixed: Showtimes for Germany
- Updated TMDB Api to version 2.1
MTSA 4.8.5 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/10/10)
- Fixed: Download and streaming of Apple trailers
- Minor bug fix.
MTSA 4.8.6 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/11/10)
- Fixed: grabber for France
- Fixed: grabber for Australia
- Fixed: TMDB look-up
MTSA 4.8.7 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/11/12)
- Fixed: grabber for USA, UK, Canada, Australia
- Better TMDB look-up
MTSA 4.8.8 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/11/13)
- Fixed: France showtimes
MTSA 4.8.9 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/11/22)
- Fixed: Italy and Norway
MTSA 4.9.0 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/12/15)
- Fixed: Grabber for Spain e spanish trailers

MTSA 4.9.1 / Plugins 2.4.1 (2009/12/30)
- Fixed: Italy

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Many thanks to falkyre (plugin) & mike (MTSA), the originally authors of this suite.
Bye,
Nephilim

 

[BillyTheFish]

Absolutely fantastic, and thank you for creating this new thread!

Just one note on the instructions. I couldn't see the Grabber plugin under the process section of the plugins option until I ran using 'Advance Options' mode in RC4.

I can currently see my selected cinemas and can view the films and synopsises (synopsies???). I get a black screen with the trailers though.

One other problem I have is that once I have selected a cinema, I can click 'previous' and 'next' to get the previous or next films, but I cannot get back to the main list of films or the list of cinemas again without exiting MP.

This might be because I'm using the BlueThree (Xmas version) skin though!

 

[joz]

Hey Nephilim it's me again

This time I have some good news for you though! I've now figured out that the problem lies in the combination of plugins. As a test I deleted everything in my windows plugin folder and just dropped MyShowTimes in there, and now everything works like it's supposed to. There's only still no detail info. I guess all what I reported is somehow related to my installation. I'm going for a proper reinstall I guess.

 

[BillyTheFish]

Actually, that might be it with me as well. I upgraded RC2 to RC4 as I'm holding out for the final version before I re-install everything.

 

[SpudR]

#rolls eyes#

 

[Nephilim]

X BillyTheFish

Absolutely fantastic, and thank you for creating this new thread!

You're welcome...

Just one note on the instructions. I couldn't see the Grabber plugin under the process section of the plugins option until I ran using 'Advance Options' mode in RC4.

Right! I'll do it in the next release...

I can currently see my selected cinemas and can view the films and synopsises (synopsies???). I get a black screen with the trailers though.

One other problem I have is that once I have selected a cinema, I can click 'previous' and 'next' to get the previous or next films, but I cannot get back to the main list of films or the list of cinemas again without exiting MP.

This might be because I'm using the BlueThree (Xmas version) skin though!

Yes, probably...

So go to the first post and download the skin for Blue3Wide. I'm not a skinner, so don't blame me...

x Joz

There's only still no detail info. I guess all what I reported is somehow related to my installation. I'm going for a proper reinstall I guess.

Have you check Extra IMDB details? Sure?

I've tried again and it works well (full details). Let me know if a fresh install solve the problem.

Bye,
Nephilim

 

[joz]

Have you check Extra IMDB details? Sure?

I've tried again and it works well (full details). Let me know if a fresh install solve the problem.

This time I was 100% sure that i ticked the imdb box but after saving and manual download etc. exiting config, I looked at the xml which didn;t have that changes stored. So I edited them myself.
But hey I can't really complain about your plugin. I'm certain there's some reason to the specific error box which I posted as the start of all my problems. To me it seems like some of the plugins I'm currently using are either expecting some kind of setting or version, which others are not.
I also was trying to get MyOrganizer to work and it crashes MP config with a similair (although different regarding specific versions) error dialog as ShowTimes does when pressing the find cinemas button.

I am totaly clueless of the cause. But I guess after upgrading for such a long time a clean install is in place (lthough it takes so much time)..
I'll report back when all things are up and running again.

p.s.
Did you by any change tried to take a look at the mediafire upload I posted earlier? Well I guess you'll keep us posted about that stuff anyways...

 

[SpudR]

BillyTheFish - skins seem to use an option of 'show all movies' to get back to the full list.
Choose that instead of 'back'

 

[Nephilim]

New skins added...
Look at the first post.

Bye,
Nephilim

 

[Nephilim]

Added MediaStream by pilehave skin

Bye,
Nephilim