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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I thought I should update people on Flix, or, rather, Flix 2.

Some time ago, I started work on Flix 2. To make the UI more up to date, I chose to use the Silvermoon library of controls. I got the application to a working state apart from a couple of small UI things that needed an update to Silvermoon.

Unfortunately, the new version of Silvermoon changed a lot, so I had to rework almost all of the UI code.

More recently, I moved to a new phone when my contract renewed, an HTC Desire. So, I had a WinMo phone no longer :(

The emulator didn't really work with the Silvermoon controls so I couldn't finish the development of Flix 2.

However, it would be nice for people to try and complete it. The code is available here: Flix 2 source.

Some points to note- the UI is (or was) mostly working. If people want to work on it, I would suggest getting the latest Silvermoon source and building that before updating Flix. Most of the problems in Flix are now around the SMS sending screen.

The separate DLL that handles downloading of information from google/imdb was working at the last check I made.

I'm happy to help explain stuff in the code (it's probably badly written and makes no sense!) but it would be nice if people could finish it off.

Thanks to all the people who helped me with testing - and donations are always welcome for the work I did on it so far ;)

I guess post here if you want to work on it so other people know and can collaborate, rather than there being 10 people all doing it separately. :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dr_strangetrick:
Hi Jmbillings, thanks for all your hard work on this but recently Flix has started to download listing for cinemas all over the country :confused:

I have uninstalled and re-installed and hard reset just in case but the same things happen. I have my post code set and I have the box ticked to download posters and country is United Kingdom but it still downloads listings for what appears to be the whole country and obviously now takes for ever to finish.

I haven't changed anything else on my TG01
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] One2go:
Looks like another Movie listing app bites the dust. The showtimes listing no longer works as the only message I get is "No showtimes are available". If the listings come from Yahoo then it is busted as it works in the browser. Those listing source formats constantly change.

That leaves only bing as a half decent movie listing app. Rvanavr's Showtime listings has no link to maps for locations & fandango only has an IE link no real app for winmo. Bing it is for the time being.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Sorry Flix has stopped working guys - it'll probably be because the various sites it uses for the data have changed.

I've got my Touch Pro back off the Wife now so I might have another bash at finishing off Flix 2 to a workable state... it's harder to work lots on it now as my main phone is Android... but I'll see what I can do.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] One2go:
it is very much appreciated any modifications to make version 2 a working application. The IMDB application is fantastic with its own player all we need is a decent listing application with preferably a link to google maps.

Thanks for all your hard efforts.

O2G
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djdafreund:
Sup. I just sent ya a PM actually, glad to see your still around. Weird coincidence it stopped working, hopefully Flix 2 isn't busted either.

I'm using XDA Android 2.2 myself quite a bit (switching to use camera, as i take picture's a lot.), but a good bit i still use WM, and being WM doesn't have jack for movie program's, i would love to still see Flix2 publicly released (with my suggestion in your PM). Bing works -ok-, and moviephone site on our phone's "S-U-C-K-S". The auto-formatting is really horrible. Big text, only like 3-4 selection's per page selection (bad when in car trying to find something.).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markpud:
It still kinda works OK for me.. will download listings and if I go via the "movies" option I can click thru and get listings.. but via the "cinemas" option it crashes when selecting the clock icon to view times for that cinema! (out of memory exception)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Unit ZER0:
Mine worked for about two weeks after the beginning of the year, now it just throws a location error and exits whenever I attempt to update. Located in USA, running on Axim X51v, WM6.1, .NET CF 3.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Z80-Man:
.Net CF errors again and again

The program looks interesting and actually behaves the way it should, but it can never finish any action.

Whatever you do (even a reset !) you always end up with a buch of .Net CF errors.

Very frustrating.

Obviously, .Net CF is actually just bull****, but some apps still come to work for a while (they always crash in the end, OK, but not always at first try). Isnt't there a possibility to overcome that ?

I'm using .Net CF 3.5, of course (3.7 is just another piece of dung).

Are you interested about some screenshots, or are you aware of the errors already ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
To be honest, I'm amazed Flix is still working at all. I've not touched the code for it since moving to android over 18 months ago.

It worked by cheekily web-scraping so any change in the webpages it pulled information from could potentially break it.

If I still have the code, is anyone interested in seeing if they can fix it? When I stopped work on it I was partway through implementing the silvermoon UI classese so I'm not sure what state it's in...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] efjay:
Will this work without google maps? I use bing maps instead. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NoobStick:
Please support New Zealand!! Thank you :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JPHCCFC:
no movies found in toronto canada checked on yahoo and no problems with toronto, ca there!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tripleA:
Dude you just got debuted on pocketnow :D

http://pocketnow.com/software-1/global-movie-listings-app-for-windows-mobile

by the way, checked ot out here in the uk/MADchester it picks out the cinema places but im not sure if the timings wokred fine...i still didnt go to any of those ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Steve James:
Great application!!

Just a few UI suggestions:

1) When viewing the Film Times for a particular cinema, would it be possible to add the running time for films below each film title?

2) Would it be possible to tap the film title to activate the film synopsis view?

3) Would it be possible to add the film release date (so I can judge how busy the cinema will be!)

4) Finally..., would it be possible to add the Critic and User rating to the synopsis view i.e. Critics: 3 stars (1 review), Users: 4 stars (35 review)

Keep up the excellent work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jiggs1337:
I would also like to suggest the ability to tap into the film synopsis when viewing cinema times. And vice versa when viewing a movie and all its running times, being able to tap into a cinema.

If that makes sense
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi all,

I've been away for a couple of days... to answer some questions:

Tiffy18 - I have no idea how Flix would have made Google Maps hebrew. When you click the map button, Flix simply starts Google Maps, passing the address of the cinema as a parameter. I don't think it's possible it could have changed how GM works.

Efjay - Flix doesn't NEED Google Maps. The only reason it's mentioned is because clicking an icon in Flix will show you the cinema location, using the Google Maps software you install on the phone (not the internet site). So I don't know if Bing do a similar app, if they do I could add support for it. Or simply call the URL to go to the map site using the default browser...

jphccfc- I'll check this out

Steve/Jiggs - the next version should be implementing a few UI changes to make it nicer to use. Some of these will be along the lines of what you've mentioned, so look out for an update at some point!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlitzWing00:
Hmmm...doesn't seem to work for Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Was this App getting it's data from Yahoo Movies? I can seem to get Yahoo Movies to show anything in Canada...so maybe that's the problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rdump71:
great app dude

work great for me (France)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flyinonice4:
I love this app, but it takes forever to load up the times for theatres. I am only pulling one theatre (I have disabled all the rest in my area) and it takes well over 3 minutes to pull up the movies and times. I will continue to use the program, but is there anyway to speed it up?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Not sure what's going on with Canada. I'm sure it worked at one point when I was testing, but I also find the Yahoo site isn't showing much now... (if anything)

Will see what I can work out.

flyinonice4- the downloads *do* take a while, yes. Mainly it's because of the amount of stuff it downloads, but remember that Flix downloads up to a weeks worth of listings, so you don't need to do the download every time you run it.

You can also schedule downloads using one of the free PPC task schedulers out there (links in the first post) so that it can auto-update once a week when you're asleep, that way you never have to sit through it! Simply start Flix with an argument of "update" and it will start up, download, then quit.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] themac:
Hi, the program, and the idea, are great !

However it has an error (i think a Index Out of Bound Exception) when retrieving cinemas and films from my zone (Bari, Italy).

Could you test it ?

Can i be of help to you ?

Thank you in advance and keep up this GOOD work ! :)

TheMac
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Sure, I can look into this.

Did you just enter Bari as the location? Yahoo doesn't show anything for this...: http://it.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?sp=sel&zip=Bari

Weirdly, the error there is English. Flix will check for that message in Italian, so it will then try and download listings where there are none, and you will get the error. So, I can stop the error occurring by checking for the English phrase also, but you still need to find what to put in to Yahoo for your area to get some info :)

***EDIT***

OK, now I DO get info for your location in Yahoo?! Weird, and I can see the bug that causes the error now, so I should be able to fix it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] themac:
Great !!!

Thanks, take your time :)

TheMac
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flyinonice4:
This may seem this a weird idea, but is there any plans on encorporating getting movie times for specific theatres or change the distance of which to search for movie theatres? In my area we have a main movie theatre and then a theatre about 30 or so minutes away that shows indie films. If I put in my area code I get the main theatre but not the indie theatre. If I put in the indie movie theatre's zip then I get it but not my main movie theatre. Id like to get times for both if possible.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] crazy talk:
application works well. but what a PITA to scroll through movies or theatres.

uninstalled it because i think i could have got the information faster with smoke signals.

if you need ideas for the interface look at the "I.TV" application for the IPhone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
You can already do this.

In configuration, simply enter both locations separated by a semicolon, i.e.

location1;indielocation

Flix will then download for both locations. You can then ignore any cinemas you don't want included in future updates then.

Hope that helps :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yes, this is one of the main downsides. The next version which I hope to release this week sometime includes a "scroller" to list the movies, so you can quickly find the one you want. I'll put in the same for theaters too.

Thanks for trying the app, and look out for the next version!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flyinonice4:
I tried that, but it only ends up listing the theatres around the indie location. I cant get it to list both :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Sorry to hear that's not working - it certainly does for me as one cinema I go to regularly doesn't show up for my postal code.

Could you let me know the location and country you entered, and the cinemas you are looking for so I can debug it here? You can pm me if you prefer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Konradwalsh:
potential 6.5 issue

Hi mate..

Just a heads up.. I am running one of the latest rom builds with 23028

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540444

the taskbar doesnt disappear anymore.. so you end up with navigation buttons being inaccessible...

thought it might be helpful to know...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] masterass:
Great app!!! Need this for Russian Federation!!!is there any possibility?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Thanks for that - when you say taskbar, do you mean the one across the top or the one at the bottom where Flix would have the "Back" button for example? I get mixed up between task bar/statusbar... Must be a hark back to my SE days... :) anyway, if you let me know what becomes inaccessible I can possibly sort something...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Konradwalsh:
ill will try and get a screenshot for ya

i think the taskbar is at the top and status bar at the bottom. However, i am talking about the taskbar at the top.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, I guess it's blocking off the left/right buttons on the screens?

These are gone in the latest release (just uploaded!) so that it's now a scroller. I guess there may be a potential for the top item to perhaps be hidden though, but let me know and i'll see what I can work out :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
If there is a source of data for Russia, then it's possible - Flix doesn't *have* to use Yahoo, it's just that was the easiest to code around...

I can look at this for a future release but there are other changes to make first I think...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] masterass:
I wonder...What kind of source should it be..?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jake Bullit:
Could some-one post a link for the.NET Compact Framework cab file thats works with this SW.cHEERS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
You'll need this one: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e3821449-3c6b-42f1-9fd9-0041345b3385 (I think)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlitzWing00:
Okay Version 1.0.9.0 seems to work for me in Vancouver Canada now. But it will crash everytime I try to ignore any theaters (clicking on the popcorn).

I also noticed while updating theater info, since it takes so long, my device will go into hibernation mode. This makes the program vulnerable to hanging & crashing. Also if I try to goto my today screen while downloading it'll unstablize my device and I can't get back into Flix and my device will be severely slowed down until Flix crashes or I soft reset.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK - I do seem to be able to replicate that error here. Not much changed around there so it should be something simple.

I'm already looking at stopping the device sleeping while updating as well, as I've found on the odd occasion it can mess up the update.

Hopefully I'll have a new build available later today if the problems aren't too tricky to fix.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Version 1.0.9.1 has now been added to the first post.

This resolves the problem with adding cinemas to be ignored from the cinema info page, and I've also put in some functionality to stop the device sleeping while the update in progress. Hopefully this will make the download more reliable!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] orb3000:
Great app!

Hope México can be included on the countries!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Deixi:
possible version for Austria

Can you please add Austrian cinemas to your wonderful application, or is there a way that one could add sources himself?

Deixi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aspring:
Duplicates Theaters

This program reminds me of a Palm program I used way back in the day called ShowTimes. I used it frequently and greatly missed it when I moved to Windows Mobile. Thank you for putting this together!

When looking up theaters using my home zip code I wouldn't get a couple of other nearby theaters I go to. I then addded another zip code closer to the additional theaters and updated the listings.

I now have a few duplicate theaters when looking at the list of theaters, with the same information within the duplicates. Is there some way to keep the program from creating two theater entries when zip code results overlap.

An ideal option would be to allow expanding the distance of results determined from a zip code location.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
This should be possible - during my testing I never got locations that returned duplicates, but it is of course possible.

Setting a "distance" isn't really possible, as I am simply processing what the Yahoo site returns for a given location, however using the same logic as ignoring cinemas the user chooses, I can make it ignore cinemas that are already in the database.

I am away for a week from later tomorrow so I don't know if I'll get this done before then, but will add it to the list of jobs :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garyjmobey:
Just to let you know on Dutty's leo r2 rom

it manages to do the update

but subsequently choosing cinema or film causes an out-of-memory error
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jngago10:
It would be perfect if it supported Portuguese cinemas! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tjex:
Doesn't seem to work very well in Vancouver, BC.

Using the GPS it sets it as V6H and gives no listings.

Setting it manually and entering Vancouver, BC it only bring up a handful of theaters.

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sysme999:
Like this app..!!

OK.. I've been using this for a few weeks and the good news is it works really well.. As a minor minor thing the display window for Sound System in the list of Cinemas is too small, so if there is more than 1 line of information the rest of the info wraps below the text box window and can't be read (I was using the settings for United Kingdom, Reading and check out the Vue Cinemas entry to see what I mean). This doesn't affect functionality at all so simply cosmetic so no need to fall over trying to fix it right away :D

Other than that I sometimes get trouble with updating via Post Code (It usually says there's no cinemas available) but this could be the source of the information where the trouble might be so just mentioning it (if you try about 3 times it eventually works it out and updates :)) I get no problem updating via a city name but it misses off one of the cinemas local to my area but suspect that has something to do with it's city/town address listing..

Last thing (and this might be a HTC Diamond 1 thing) if you click on all viewing times from the cinema view (using the clock icon) it often throws up an OutOfMemoryException and a long list of details that I can't type in this reply! I can get round it by clicking on the clock for the individual film in movie view.

Phone is running Build 21054 WM 6.1 with Manilla 2.1 provided by Yozgatg

Thank you for this useful app.. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Thanks for the comments people - I have been on holiday, but hopefully I can get back to doing more on Flix soon :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Jonny-:
Enjoy your holiday. Excellent app, couldn't ask for more from it. Working well on my Universal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] focosi:
Since the last days Flix has stopped working for 56100 Pisa ("No cinema found") : maybe Yahoo changed again ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
It has stopped working for the whole italy:

http://it.movies.yahoo.com/

search rome, milan, whatever, and you'll have no result
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hopefully Yahoo will fix this soon :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fat78:
Correct link for search is http://it.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?mid=&cid=&sp=cty&zip=Bari
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Well spotted, will make it use the new link in the next version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rayrayato:
64114 USA is not working

Would love to try out the app but postal code 64114 for United States is giving a "specified argument was out of the range of valid values." error at "System.StringSubstring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 Length)"

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I've just found similar myself. Yahoo have amended the way that information is displayed slightly leading to this error.

I'll hopefully have a fix soon :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
That explains why I'm getting a similar error for 37343, USA. The program loads up fine, but shame on yahoo for changing their setup.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
New version uploaded, see the first post for details!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Jonny-:
Get an error with new version (1.0.9.2)

When I click on 'Movies'. Was working ok. Have set Location, and downloaded listings. Everything else working ok.

Flix.exe
ObjectDisposedException

at Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr(PAL_ERROR ar)
at System.Drawing.Image.Save(Stream stream, ImageFormat format)
at Flix.frmMovieList.ConvertImageToByteArray(Image imageToConvert, ImageFormat formatOfImage)
at Flix.frmMovieList.LoadMovies()
at Flix.frmMovieList..ctor(clsCore Core)
at Flix.frmMain.pbMovies_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)
at Flix.Program.Main(String[] args)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK,

I can't replicate this here, although I did make some changes to loading posters in that view to try and help fix the out of memory errors some users reported.

I'll double check the code tonight to see if I can spot what's causing it.

Sorry!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
JMbillings,

Thanks for this new update :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] supersobbie:
Great an update... I really like this app. Thanks for all you hard work.

SoBBie
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
1.0.9.2 is working great for me. THANKS.

Now if I could only click on the showtimes and reserve tickets;):D:eek:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
JMBillings,

The new version does not work for me....:(

When I press on Movies, then I've got an error message and Flix crashes....

The previous version worked fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
To users having trouble when clicking on Movies, please try installing using the attachment in the first post again - i've changed a couple of things.

If the error still happens, please PM me with your configured location so I can try to make the error happen here.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] humble:
Good job

it works now:)

ps: that was really quick
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
It works now when I click directly on the 'Movies' icon.

Nonetheless, if I first click to 'Cinemas' (popcorn icon) and try to see the Movies for a selected cinema, then Flix will crash the same way... :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] humble:
found some thing

when i press theaters then the theater then the clock(is this the showing time?) well i get this
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
oops.

"Column 'Country' does not belong to table tbConfig."

I got a database error on the first run. Then it let me into the location setup screen. Then I get the above error. Similar to a couple of versions back.

Previous version worked, but would error out on exit once in awhile.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ThomasHW:
Not a big deal, just a suggestion, but maybe a cancel button to stop the update if it's taking too long? (Since it does take about 20 minutes for me.)