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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi everyone - sorry I've not checked in on this thread for a few days - had a rather hectic couple of weeks with a few problems :(

Anyways - Cris, thanks for the review - I'd meant to add it to the first post as well, so I'll do that shortly.

Schrej- I'll look at this with the umlauts

BillyJ- nice icon, I might include it in the next release if that's ok?

Soundman - Useful comments, thanks! I'll see what I can put into the next release from that (probably not all of it yet). As for the icons- the screen will sometimes have a number next to it - this shows the number of screens at a cinema. The speakers will sometimes have text next to them, and it shows the sort of sound (dolby digital etc). But often this info isn't supplied, so you won't see anything. I'm not sure of the value of this information anyway, so I might junk them. The age-certificate IS something of more use though.

Radon222 - weirdly it updated at work once without error but at home still fails... The error comes from lower down in things and when I last looked into it I couldn't even trap it properly, but I'm sure there must be something that can be done, so I'll keep looking.

TKETZ196 - If Flix finds a phone number then it should be displayed - if you PM me your location + country you have set in config I can see if something is going wrong.

As for the new version - I've just about got the Allocine conversion for France working, but I do want to add Australia too as it's been requested a few times. (Someone mentioned Switzerland- if there is a data source then yes, I can add it, but not sure Yahoo offer one? Other sites can be looked at though...)

I also want to make the update run in a separate thread so that the UI stays a bit more responsive and it can be cancelled more easily. Thanks for your patience!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
To any potential Australian users:

So far I've found two sites, but they both look like they will be tricky to get info off.

yourmovies.com.au doesn't have a location "search" as such - it makes you go through and select a state, then a location, then the cinemas. To put this in Flix would require a whole special config section, so a bit more complex.

au.movies.yahoo.com does have a search, but it processes everything behind the scenes, it doesn't simply process url parameters like the other region sites... so it'll probably be a bit more complex as its not a method I've tried before (I guess I'd need to somehow emulate the user interactions of the webpage...)

So the question is, are there any other sites that provide listings for all the various cinemas that I can check out before I get too carried away on one of the above?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] o0RaidR0o:
I've enjoyed using Flix and wish to say thanks for the hard work. However since I've upgraded my Verizon Touch Pro 2 from 6.1 to 6.5 I can no longer run Flix. I've updated to the latest version and it still won't run. When I try to run it, the busy icon just flicks for a second and then nothing.

I hope you can help.

Thanks ahead...

DOH! nevermind I thought 6.5 came with the latest Dotnet, but I was wrong and after updating Flix is my best friend once again!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Glad to hear it's ok- I thought all roms already had it too, but i guess not...!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RevPez:
Is Australia due to be added to Flix anytime soon? Please?

RevPez
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Australia will be in the next release :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
New version uploaded!

See the first post for change details.

New stuff is only tested by me, so feedback always handy!

French users note- Allocine doesn't seem to list phone numbers for cinemas anywhere that I can see, so if you use this, you'll lose that option. If this info IS available and I just couldn't see it, please let me know so I can add it. The Yahoo option is still there for those that find Flix works ok at the moment.

Australian users- I've used a combination of Google and IMDB for the information, so let me know how it goes... :)

As always, donations are appreciated if you find Flix useful; see the first post for details.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
Thanks for the update James:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andreatozzi:
great apps and improvements, but it still doesn't works in italy

please help us again !

Ciao
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I think this is a Yahoo problem. For instance I just tried a Yahoo search for Milano and nothing comes up: http://it.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?zip=milano&sp=sel

Can you check your location on their web site?

If it is still a problem I might have to look at another data source such as Google + IMDB like I did for Australia...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] philo69:
this link works fine for Italian cinema...

http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andreatozzi:
you can try http://www.mymovies.it/cinema/ too ?

EX. for Milano: http://www.mymovies.it/cinema/milano/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Thanks for those links - I'll have a look and see if I can use one of those in the next version :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
James,

This is great :)

Yahoo Cinema was a problem :rolleyes:

Many Thanks,

Arturo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
No problem - I've only tested it a little, so let me know of any problems...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] radon222:
JMB,

Thank you. The new version seems to have solved the crashing I was experiencing with the previous build :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mannoroth:
hi. there are still some issues with allocine. only a few movies of every theater are synced. i hope you ll find out the solution. congratulations for the job you've done.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Can you let me know your config settings so I can test? (PM or here is fine)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] itajackass:
italy still not work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yeah, I need to find another data source for Italy really - a couple were suggested further up the thread which I will investigate as options...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ajay_zalavadia:
Multiple Zip Code

Hi , Thanks for your Great Effort,

I don't know if there is a multiple Zip code support in this version or Not.

If Not it would be a Great Idea.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yes, all you need to do is separate your zips by a semicolon, i.e:

zip1;zip2;zip3

Bear in mind the more you have the longer the update takes and you may run into memory problems, but you can "ignore" theaters you don't want (popcorn crossed-out icon) to stop them downloading in the future.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] easyfly:
no work for italy.....i hope in a future release
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sergio_2708:
Hi JMB,

I tried your app (1.0.9.7) last week and finally uninstalled it, due to the same issues as Mannoroth :

My config is the following : HD2 with last french stock ROM (1.66), Radio 2.07.51.27_2 and .net framework compact 3.5 (I 've tried also with the 3.7 release but experienced the same problems):(

Tell me if you need more information.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I think the problems with Allocine and Italy are now fixed- certainly initial tests suggest so.

I hope to post an update this weekend :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vshvash88:
Hi there. How does one run the command line to update the movie listing? I'm planning on setting it up such that, each time my phone reboots, Flix will run with the update command (so that it will open, download, and then close), since I have my phone time'd to reboot in the morning. Please let me know how I can execute the command line. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
ok, I'm not sure how to execute it at boot-time - I was using ctscheduler lite previously to update 8am every Friday- you simply tell it to run Flix, and add on "update" as an argument.

There is a Startup folder in the Windows folder, so in theory, you can create a shortcut to Flix in here (like "\Program Files\Flix\Flix.exe" "update") - but i've not tried this!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vshvash88:
Yeah, I was hoping that I could simply add the command to it, but, I've been unable to figure out how. I tried using Ctsheduler lite and figuring out how that program does it, but I couldn't figure that out either. Oh well. If anyone knows, please let me know!

Or, is there any thought to adding a scheduling feature built-in to the app in the future? That's the only thing that keeps me from using Flix.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yes, adding in scheduling is something I'd definitely want to look at in the future- I just need to work out how :)

I don't think having Flix running all the time is realistic, because of memory concerns, so really it would have to just insert a request to the operating system to make it update.

It's on the list of things to do :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vshvash88:
So, I've now tried using both Runeveryday and CTScheduler to run Flix with the update command. With both programs, I get an error message. When I hit "details" I get:

Flix.exe

ObjectDisposedException

at

System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeHelper(Delegate method, Boolean fSynchronous, Object[] rgobjArgs)

at Flix.frmMain.SetProgressLabel(StringMessage)

at

Flix.clsUnitedStates.GetTheatres(String_postCode, Int32& StatusCode)

at Flix.clsCore.DoUpdate(String&RequestStatus, frmMain MainFormRef)

at

Flix.ThreadStartDelegateWrapper.Worder()

If I update it myself, by running the program and then hitting "download" it works just fine. Any suggestions? Am I putting in the update command wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Well - the update switch is working because it tries to update. So I think you have this correct.

Looking at the error it seems to be a cross-thread problem and it will have only appeared in the most recent versions where the update doesn't happen on the UI thread.

I will try getting the scheduler installed again (or just make a shortcut or something...) and check it out, hopefully this can be fixed quickly in the version due soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
New version posted that should fix the update problem, hopefully get Italy working, and also fix another small problem for some locations in Allocine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
Download is ok, but there's always a memory error when trying to see "cinemas" or "movies":

Flix.exe
OutOfMemoryException

in Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr(PAL_ERROR ar)
in System.Drawing.Bitmap._Init(Int32 cx, Int32 cy)
in System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height)
in mirabyte.Mobile.TouchControls.TouchListBox.UpdateList(Boolean KeepSelection)
in mirabyte.Mobile.TouchControls.TouchListBox.OnResize(EventArgs e)
in System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
in System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
in Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterModalDialog(IntPtr hwnModal)
in System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()
in Flix.frmMain.pbTheatre_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
in System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
in System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
in System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
in Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)
in System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)
in Flix.Program.Main(String[] args)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
ok, do you still get the out of memory after a soft-reset?

If so, could you possibly zip up all the .xml/.xsd files from your device and mail them to me? (in \Program Files\Flix)

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Further update posted to make Italy more reliable.

Note that Google (which Italy uses) seems to pick up a wider range than Yahoo did, so you may only need to use one location to find all your cinemas.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vshvash88:
I downloaded the new version, and it's working great! No more errors with the automatic updates. I'm officially a user of this app now!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Good news!

The update problem was a rather silly one - because the download now runs in another thread, the UI was closing immediately it started rather than waiting for it to finish!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
Thanks to you! Let me know about the "exchange" thing ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vdelab:
Hello,

I lke a lot the functionnalities of Flix, and I really believe it is a must for me.

I have but one issue with it :

- I live in France, near Toulouse, and the main theater I go to is called Mega-CGR, in Blagnac.

For some reason, it NEVER appear in the list of theater, so I never get its schedule.However, it is on Allo-cine, so I can't explain why it is kept of the the list...

An din the configuration, I put the names of the cities I wish, and it works fine for the others (Tournefeuille and Toulouse)...

Do you have a explaination?

Thanks a lot....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hmmm, off the top of my head there is no reason why it shouldn't work. I will do some testing and see if I can find the problem :)

***EDIT***

OK, I just tried a Flix download using Blagnac as the location and it finds the Mega-CGR, along with Cinema Rex. Have you tried putting that in Flix, or just Toulouse etc?

If not, try it and see if it works - you can have both places by using a semicolon between, like: Blagnac;Toulouse
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bobzero:
Just tried out version 1.0.9.9, and it fails to download any movie theaters("No movie theaters found!") for the GPS derived ("Where am I?") postal code (M2M) in Canada.

However, when I enter a full postal code, it downloads a bunch of theaters. When i try to enter "M2M" into yahoo's movie search, it doesn't find anything. So I guess the problem lays with the GPS giving a bad shortened postal code.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
bobzero - This makes some sense. Flix uses a geocoding lookup site to work out the postal code of your location, but this only returns the first part. In the UK this always seemed to work but Yahoo seems to change fairly often with respect to how well it finds stuff.

I may change the lookup to use the town/city to see if it's more reliable
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lohtse:
Hmmmm having problems downloading cinemas....Here in UK.... No matter what postcode I use it say no cinemas found!!!!! and if I enter say manchester in location I get info for cinemas in norwich, leeds and york!!!!!!!!!!!! quite funny really but now the apps is as much use as a chocolate tea pot LOL... Shame as used to use this app alot.... Hope it gets sorted soon..

regards

Lohtse

PS

Same problem on my partners Artemis and network so is not a fault with my Kaiser
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Norwich, Leeds and York etc. are the locations Yahoo seems to return if it can't find a match for your location.

I've just done a download for my own area and it's still working okay, so not sure why it suddenly wouldn't like Manchester - I checked the Yahoo site and Manchester works... so perhaps it was a temporary glitch... can you try another download?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dahauss:
CRASH

I am trying to use the latest version on a SPRINT TP2 WM6.5 (Mightyrom). I go to download the data updates and it takes so long that it crashes the program when I am on battery.. It goes into the hibernation mode... If I connect it to a power source then it works and doesnt crash. Is there any way to resolve this? Sometimes I might not be near a power source when I need to update...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Does the device go to sleep? (i.e. the screen turns off)? Because Flix should stop this while it's downloading...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dahauss:
It was dimmed but didnt go off.. I tired it several times and each time it crashed when the screen when to DIM mode... when I plugged in power it worked...

Also another issue is that when you click on the GOOGLE MAPS link it opens an OLD version of google maps nd not the latest version 4 I have installed. I cant even see where there is an old version on my phone... any ideas on this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hmm, it shouldn't really make any difference - what was the error you got when it crashe?

Flix will search your device for "googlemaps.exe". I think the default location is usually "\Program Files\GoogleMaps\GoogleMaps.exe"?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bobzero:
Couple suggestions after a little bit of use:

1) Under the Theaters Option, When you click on show times, have the times collapsed for each movie, and then when you click select the movie, it expands the show times.

2) Similarly, under the Movies option, when you click on show times icon, have the movie theater locations collapsed to just show a list of theaters. When you select a theater, it then expands to show you the movie show times.

Bug:

1) When I attempt to manage theaters, the page where it says "Tap a cinema to enable downloading of listings again", the page is blank and I have no cinemas listed.

Just out of curiosity, how long does it make most of you to update your movie data? It seems to take my phone about 10 mins on an EVDO connection (speed test between 800-1300kpbs). Seems somewhat long.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I can look at the "expanding lists" - not sure the control I use can do that without a full "reload" but will investigate.

As for the manage theaters screen being blank, you have to have previously "ignored" a theater for it to show in there - if you aren't ignoring any, then there won't be any available to re-enable.

As for download speeds- yes, it's slow. I am investigating better data sources for a complete re-make as version 2, perhaps along the lines of rss feeds, but it's a case of finding data thats suitable and freely available.

On HSDPA at work, my update takes maybe 2 minutes - I have 3 locations set, but each one only returns one theater. This is why its worth ignoring theaters you don't visit, as it will speed up subsequent downloads. City locations will often list many, so the update has to load all the listings and movie details for each one which takes some time...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dahauss:
any chance you can put in a config option to specify the location of googlemaps.exe? I need this because I am on a custom rom that has version 3 of google maps cooked in. the googlemaps.exe for version 3 is a system file in the windows directory. HOWEVER, I installed verison 4 in the program files folder. I would like this program to use version 4 of googlemaps but it seems to find the cooked version 3 first..

Thanks...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yes, an option for the google maps location should be simple enough to add :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garymr2:
Theatres Selection option?

Is it possible to add a feature to let you pick which cinema you want info for. Most people only need like 2-3 nearby/designated cinema info.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Yes - for version 2 I'd like it to display a list of "found" cinemas so you can select the ones you want.

For now, you can ignore the ones you don't want by tapping the crossed-out popcorn on the cinema information page. Then, that cinema won't be downloaded in the future.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] philo69:
ITALY

Works fine for me in Italy
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jandw:
support for Belgium?

Do you think you could incorporate support for Belgium? Unfortunately, Belgian movie showtimes aren't present on Yahoo. But, a great site with all the info you present in your app is Cinebel.be. Only in Dutch en French, our 2 native languages ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DicEvsTytnII:
I second that! Support for Belgium would be great :)

as an alternative to cinebel.be there's also cinenews.be, and they also have a mobile site http://m.cinenews.be/ if that helps at all. Supports Dutch, FR and ENG languages.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I'm currently looking into a new version 2 of Flix, the main aim to be simpler and faster.

I can look at Belgium but I'm trying to reduce the different bits of code necessary for each country as it makes the whole thing more complex- stay tuned!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dahauss:
I hope V2 has the fixes so it doesnt crash during updating as mine wont update anymore as it crashes 1/2 way through. Also if it could have the fix to let you select where google maps is as on my TP2 it is finding the one cooked into the ROM in the windows directory and NOT the NEWER ONE
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hlazzo:
I'm having a problem downloading movie theaters. When I enter "Toronto, ON" on Yahoo's site, it returns 49 different theaters. When I use the same string in Flix it downloads only around 10 theaters. No matter what locations I use, Flix always downloads a fraction of the theaters displayed in Yahoo. I'm using the latest version of Flix. I tried resetting the program settings, uninstalling and reinstalling with no change. It just started happening a couple of months ago (even while using a previous version of Flix). Does anyone know what could be causing this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Flix will only download the first page of results - so if when you search Toronto, the results are across several pages this is likely to be the cause.

I could change this, but the download is already slow enough!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fredezzz:
I did mention Switzerland.

What kind of sources do you need? I might help to find one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
For Flix 2, i'm currently looking at Google - seems to support a lot more places, and in theory(!) the code can pretty much be used for all of them rather than it needing to be adapted for every country.

This does mean that the information may not be so comprehensive, but it should be faster.

I'm also making it popup a list of cinemas for your location before downloading, so people can just tick the ones they want rather than downloading all then ignoring afterwards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Flix42:
Maybe I'm doing it wrong or the question has been asked before, but I don't get any movie infos at all (device is TouchHD). No synopsis, feature length or actors - nothing. Basically what I get after each update is a list of movies (without any description) and a list of cinemas (with the respective movies playing there). That's all. :confused:

Any configuration that I need to change? The list of cinemas only works with the city name (Hannover, Germany), not with the zip code.

This is propably a great app but in this state not very useful... :( All other apps like this don't support Germany. Is there really nothing like the iPhone App "Boxoffice" / "Now Playing" out there? I can't believe that!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Woofdah:
Bad display under certain theaters

Love the app. Works great with one exception for me. When selecting "Theaters" from main menu and then selecting specific theaters some of them come up with very large text, so large it can't be read. Doesn't happen on all theaters.

Running on TMo HD 2 with stock rom.

I can get all the info from going in through the "Movies" selection so still very usable.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] horbeme:
i installed the program yesturday on my tp2 and it wont load, it tells me 2 send a report to microsoft to resolve it. do i need any other software to get it running?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi all, sorry i've not dropped by to update for a while - first I got "volcano" trapped in Portugal, and unfortunately I also got made redundant :( so now I am job hunting...

Anyway, I am still working on a new version of Flix (so post any ideas!).

Horbeme: You may not have the MS .net Compact Framework installed, so please check this.

Woofdah: One or two other users have reported "stretched" text on the HD2. I think it's down to the scaling on the device being different to the VGA I use, but only occurs under certain occasions, will look in to it.