andybotting/xbmc-addon-abc-iview — pull request #3 by sdt (2012-06-15 00:06:11+00:00)
Title: Add a top-level category menu

Hi Andy,

I've made a handful of small modifications to your iView plugin

* add a top-level categories menu
* series menu (now category-specific) gets thumbnails
* sorting ignores case and leading 'The '

There's a new file categories.py which works very much like series.py,
otherwise the only notable change was a different api call to get the series
information.

Using api?keyword=XXX gives all the json fields for all shows matching
the given keyword, unlike api?seriesIndex which gives the abridged version.
Nicely, using 0-z as the keyword gives the full listing for everything in one call.

The json format is the same as for api?series=XXX, so the series parsing code
didn't need to change.

Hope you find this useful.

Steve

ps. some screenshots of the new functionality:

Top-level category menu
![Top-level category menu](http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/v9fyb.jpg)

Series menu now with thumbnails
![Series menu now with thumbnails](http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/mg9fs.jpg)