EPG plugin info question

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:13 am

Question:
Is it possible for me to do the following if I build a plugin for the EPG.

1/ goto the current date and time of the EPG
2/ popup an overlay if the user press enter inside the EPG

thought I might ask before starting building. If not possible I take it Steven that u aren't willing to do this? If we have this we can do the following.

1/ got current time is really neccessary. Annyoying that u have to scroll to get to current time.
2/ if we enable a overlay popup then we can *exit epg *make user choose to record by sending commandlines to various applications *goto hat cannel by sending parameters.

PS:thanks again for ading the refresh epg command.

S

Regards

Lasse

by **badubo** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:45 am

1/ goto the current date and time of the EPG

I agree, I will need also this feature for my plugin

2/ popup an overlay if the user press enter inside the EPG

you can already, you have to attach an event for opening your overlay to the EPG and use the EPG variables (see Colby's doc)

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:53 am

Thanks for the info but where do I find colbys doc?

//Lasse

by **badubo** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:55 am

http://www.xlobby.incolby.com/EventVariableSheet2.htm

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:59 am

badubo wrote:http://www.xlobby.incolby.com/EventVariableSheet2.htm

looking and reading.........

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:07 am

didn't really worked. tried to create an over and that poped up when pressing the enterkey inside the epg. Problem is that the EPG info does not show up. I created a text box on the overlay with this info.

epg>description

but its empty. I think the EPG info is only there if the EPG is selected and its not when the overlay pops up....

//Lasse

by **badubo** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:14 am

but its empty. I think the EPG info is only there if the EPG is selected and its not when the overlay pops up....

may be, I never used it this way. With my plugin, I use directly the event from the EPG

It is probaly because EPG variables are based on the selection, and that you lost selection when entering overlay. (Steven, can you confirm?)

May be solution is to save the variable in another before opening the overlay

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:15 am

never set a variable before but I'll try.

by **lar282** on Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:30 am

noope didn't work. nothing there in the variable. Steven can u help me out?

Save to variable:
Information: %epg>channel%
Variable: channel

trying to show that variable as
%variable>channel%

//Lasse

by **stevenhanna6** on Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:58 pm

this should fix it, you now have access to all epg variables through %epg>??????%

http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2.zip

by **lar282** on Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:54 pm

stevenhanna6 wrote:this should fix it, you now have access to all epg variables through %epg>??????%

http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2.zip

yapp that fixed it but as usual one always see something else..

The time is in 12 hour format.this way I cannot send the info to the recording application because I do not know if its pm or am....sorry steven

//Lasse

by **stevenhanna6** on Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:18 pm

are you talking about the "runtime" variable? it should be giving you AM or PM at the end of the time returned.

by **m_masta** on Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:11 pm

stevenhanna6 wrote:this should fix it, you now have access to all epg variables through %epg>??????%

http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2.zip

Thanks for the update!
I can now successfully interface to MyTheatre.

masta

by **lar282** on Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:35 am

stevenhanna6 wrote:are you talking about the "runtime" variable? it should be giving you AM or PM at the end of the time returned.

yes the runtime. It gives me this. I do not see any am or pm

söndag mars 20 08:30 - 09:55

PS:The year is not there either:DS

//Lasse

by **m_masta** on Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:30 pm

lar282 wrote:
stevenhanna6 wrote:are you talking about the "runtime" variable? it should be giving you AM or PM at the end of the time returned.

yes the runtime. It gives me this. I do not see any am or pm

söndag mars 20 08:30 - 09:55

PS:The year is not there either:DS

//Lasse

I'm using the same build, and it's working just fine for me.
I'm using epg>runtime in the screen, and it is properly displaying AM/PM

masta