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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr_McFisto:
Flix

This is a great app and I really love it and use it often during each cinema week. I am very much looking forward to Flix2. Please keep up the great work.

Only issue I have is the stretched text issue on the HD2 which has been mentioned.

Do you have any idea when a new version will be released?

Carl.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I'll try and look into the stretchy text problem to see if I can fix that - any other changes I will probably leave and look at for Flix 2.

If you can let me know your location you entered, and which text is wrong it might help, thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Durv84:
Using HD2 also stretched menu....address Underneath.

Cineworld Cardiff

CF24

Cardiff

UK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, I can't seem to replicate the text problem yet- I think it could be to do with the different dimensions of the wvga devices.

Can someone clarify exactly where it is? (i.e. list of movies? Or in the cinema information itself? Or on the showtimes list?)

A screenshot may help (the EnergyROMs I use come with shake.n.save to do a screenshot easily)

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tdsanchez:
Many thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djdafreund:
Hey. I am loving this program. Thank you so much for it. Looking forward to flix 2 also. I do notice i get an exception error thrown every here and there. I'll have to wait til next time to try to write it all down if needed.

I can mention a few things for idea's

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1) Include an option of how many days to update per update. So you can do just a few days or all if wanted.

2) Update the link from your blog (noticed it's a few versions behind) and maybe point to this link instead since it's more active.

3) If possible, have it so it can parse (if using the google code) the link for the trailer so you can have a button that when clicking on, it would open up the mediaplayer (wmp or coreplayer, whatever player the system is configured that is to open.) and start playing the trailer link stream. NICE!!!

4) Theme's (or at least have 2 choices. White background with black text, or black background with white text.)

5) Update button to check if newer version comes out.

6) Remove more space between each theater name in the theater list, less to scroll, and will still be easy on the eye.

Looking forward for future released though. Thanks again. Great app!!! Just found it recently myself, the other program i used in the past stopped working i believe due to a change in the parsing of information by the site it scrapped it from.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr_McFisto:
Flix

Hi,

The stretchy text thing on my HD2 is for the following cinems:

Cineworld, Boldon Colliery

Odeon, Gateshead

In my Configuration I have: Boldon Colliery; Gateshead

I see the problem when I click Cinemas, then click a cinema of the two in the list, then click the clock icon (for that specific cinema) Stretchy text.

If I click Movies, then a movie from the listings and click the clock icon, the listings are fine.

Carl.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] prchina:
to make download faster, maybe just download the "new" information, instead of all information all over again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Elch08:
I have installed Flix (latest version) on my Samsung Omnia Pro. I live in Germany and the app works fine in small cities with low number of cinemas (like Bad Homburg or Gießen). However, if I input my home city (which is Frankfurt) Flix would first download all data. But then a error message appears as soon as I want to look the details for cinemas or movies. The same happens if I choose other bigger cities like Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden or Munich. So it seems it cannot handle bigger data files. Is that true ? Or is there any other work around (eg. registry fix or so) ?

Best regards

Bjoern
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MalekoUK:
Fantastic piece of software! lookign forward to the updates
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Carl - thanks for the extra detail on the stretchy text, will see what I can do.

Users getting an error in Germany with big cities- this is most likely an out of memory problem, the control I used for the scrolling lists tends to do this if there is a lot of data... they say it's fixed in the new version but that costs money to upgrade, plus for Flix 2 I am probably going a different way- I am testing out the Silvermoon library and so far it looks good :)

One thing you can try is to ignore cinemas you don't want by adding them manually using the "manage theaters" option in setup:

- Go to Setup, then "Kinos Verwalten"

- Click 'Neu' at the bottom.

- Find the ID on Yahoo website. So for Hamburg, we can see this list: http://de.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?sp=sel&zip=hamburg

Let's say we want to ignore "CinemaxX Hamburg-Wandsbek". Choose it from the list. Now look in the URL: http://de.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?mid=&cid=132287&tm=&sp=mov&zip=Hamburg and you will see cid=132287. So for this cinema, the "Number" is 132287. Enter this in Flix, along with a name (can be anything :)) and repeat for each cinema you DON'T want.

- Once done, re-download data.

Hopefully, if you only have a few cinemas selected you should find that it works...

Flix 2 will work differently - when you download for the first time, a list of cinemas will be given so you can pick the ones you want :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Thanks for the suggestions! I'd like to put scheduling in, yes. Will need to investigate this.

Google does supply trailer URLs for many movies, and I am capturing these in my tests, I just need to find the best way of then displaying them...

Themes - I can consider this, although the new interface is changed a fair bit - see the preview below (early days, subject to change :))

Update button a good idea.

The spaces in the list I think are on wvga devices due to the way I calculate the height based on the number of items on a page... the new Silvermoon interface should eliminate all that...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] radon222:
Ahh going Metro I see! Looking forward to the new Flix2 :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mr_McFisto:
Flix2

Do you know when Flix2 might hit our screens? I have also been looking at Showtime Watcher - http://www.rvanavr.com/app/showtime-watcher

It's ok, does the job I guess, but I much prefer the look and feel of Flix v1 and the screenshot of Flix v2 looks absolutly fantastic.

One other gripe I have with Flix 1 is not all of the movie posters download, and they are all different sizes for the ones that do come down.

If Flix v2 is quick and displays info correctly then it could be a killer app to have... but is it days, weeks or months away??

Carl.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I cant give a date for Flix2, however the guts of the download DLL is complete, and it's mostly just the UI... so not months- maybe a week or two depending on how much time I get (not working at the moment so hopefully more!)

The new download (using a combination of Google and IMDB) will hopefully be faster - there is the odd occasion where a movie in Google doesn't have a link to IMDB though, so I am performing a search at IMDB then - which is usually correct, but sometimes not (more with obscure movies though!)

This does mean initially, foreign language support for the movie synopsis will be lost, although IMDB does have localized sites and I will be aiming to incorporate that.

The interface itself now has the language set via XML files (so I will be looking for translators!) rather than relating to the Country selected.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] varun.gid:
This is an awesome software! OP is it possible to ADD UNITED ARAB EMIRATES lisings too?? Please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
if Google supports your location in UAE then it should work in version 2. Try going to www.google.com/movies and see if it finds anything... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djdafreund:
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! This is such a nice program to use. Thanks for your hard work and time involved with this, i know how that can be. Here's some idea's I thought of if possible.

1. Is it possible to change things so it doesn't have to re-scrape ALL the movie information? That takes so long. I don't know if it's possible to check if files exist, to ignore them, so it's more or less just updating info not there yet, like just new movie title's and new images. I am assuming this is the current behavior as when you accidentally click on cancel when updating, and go into theater or movies everything is completely blank. That's how i found this out.

2. Being able to hide theater's you have set for 'ignore' from being shown in the list of theaters. It seems to make more sense this way, when looking in the theater list, it will hide any theater locations you previously set for ignore. Since you have control over restoring them from "Manage Theaters"

So this way you don't have a longer list that includes theater's you don't want to look at or see anyway.

3. Be able to choose how many days you want to actual fetch from. (IE- Grab only 2-3 days instead of 7) This would take much less time from the scraping process.

4. Check for update's. (of course!!! For us junkies out there to keep up to date with your great program!!)

Not knowing what's in store for 2.0, forgive me if some or all these idea's are already in store. :) And i can't wait if so!!!

EDIT- Oops, just noticed i asked a few close to these on the last page (working so much and on a few project's i am loosing my mind now!!! LOL) and read your response to them. Looking at the image you posted, it looks NICE!!!! And good to hear about the scraping maybe being faster with new process you changed. HOPEFULLY!! :) And that you will look into maybe an update function. Thank you again!!! Can't wait for 2.0 now. Looks pretty wicked so far!! Also, about the trailer's question, how about it would open up WMP (or whatever media player is associated with video's of the trailer format, assuming it's flv i believe?) when you click on the trailer link.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
No worries on the duplicate requests :)

I should be able to add a days to download function, although it might not be too necessary in the new version as that bit of the download is quite quick anyway. More complex is to not download already-downloaded movies... if the database isnt cleared, then I can check for the movie existing and skip it but then it never gets removed so that over time the data will get bigger and bigger. One solution may be to store a flag on each move that is set when it is "found" then remove all of the not-found ones at the end of the download. Will look in to it :)

BTW- You should find cinemas you ignore will disappear from the next time you download. I was going to make it remove them right away but won't bother now as working on v.2

I'm not having much luck with the stretchy text problem. I set the emulator to the same rwsolution as people having the trouble but it still works- does the problem persist from one week to the next? It may be certain movie titles that cause it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djdafreund:
Yeah, while reading i was already thinking something similar. Like checking for a movie and if no movie exist to remove it, or as it goes along (if previous isn't pliable) have it check as it's scanning for all if the title doesn't have any time's to scrape to remove it from the DB. But if the new version is pretty quick, then maybe it's not such a big deal. The flag idea sounds good, kinda similar to 1st idea.

To make sure i am saying the right thing about ignored theater's not being shown. What i am meaning is, when clicking on "Theaters" which bring's up the list, all the ignored theater locations you set still show up in the list (at least on mine, even after closing and re-loading)

The stretchy text isn't really a problem. It's mostly like it's just double-spaced kind of. In between each theater title, there's like 2 lines of space in between each. I am thinking (since it's about right) it's like it's spacing it the same as if there was a movie cover to the left of the titles, only as there is about the same amount of blank space between each theater title as when browsing movie titles mode.

And after messing around, i noticed from a fresh install, when grab movie cover's isn't checked, it still grabbed them after a scan. Might not matter with 2.0 and new changes, but wanted to see if you noticed the same behavior in case. I PERSONALLY DO grab them myself as it's nicer looking that way, but still wanted to mention this in case you wanted feedback on this kind of stuff. Just wanting to help out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Not quite - they won't go until you next download data from online (because at this point the data is cleared, then it doesn't download ones you are ignoring)

Hope that makes sense :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djdafreund:
ahhhhh. now i gotcha. because the list is being grabbed from the db of non-ignored items. that makes sense.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gjbnh:
Unexpected Error

Awesome app! I loved this on my vogue, and it works somewhat on my Touch Pro 2. When downloading updates, I get an unexpected error. This occurs on both phone AND wifi so it can't be that. Looking forward to your next release. Perhaps the issue will be addressed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Palmiter:
Adding a way to adjust the size of the listing area

Great app! I would just like to request one change, I would like to be able to pick how far out in miles from the center the movie theater list is generated from. I would like to enlarge my search area and then remove the theaters I don't want. currently I have to change zip code and re-list to see all the theaters I use in my part of NY.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geronemo:
am getting the following error msg.

iam trying to add USA zip. 43016

any help guys.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
your error looks like the network connection had a glitch during the download, or something went wrong in the download.

Have you tried it via Activesync thru the PC, or over Wifi?

Also, are you on the latest version from the first page of the thread (as there was a problem with some posters that caused this error now and then that I fixed)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geronemo:
Well i have tried downloading again and again several times, i am doing it over wifi, i have a very stable 7Mbps connection that never drops and yes i did download the file from the 1st thread.

Please let me know if you have suggestions.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Could you send me the logfile from the Flix Program files folder? May have some clues..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] radon222:
On occasion when I get an error like that I have to delete all the XML files in the program directory and do a fresh download.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gokuman56:
This always crashes on my touch pro, never fully downloads the movie listings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geronemo:
i did that and got the same problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geronemo:
i uploaded the file.

thanks for all your help.

p.s. it says the following when i attach the file "Your file of 98.6 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 87.9 KB for this filetype".

any suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] steveianson:
Hi

Great App

One problem i have is that i live about 10 miles from the nearest cinema and when i do a search it states that there are no cinemas near me. Would it be possible in v2 to have an option as to how wide you want the search.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
The app crashed while it was searching for movie info but then i re ran it and it worked, awsome app, thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gokuman56:
I got it to work, but it has two problems, I cannot see hindi movies, such as Raavan, it shows the movie when it is downloading showtimes, but when I click on the movies in the main menu, it does not show, try zip code 30033, and click on amc 16 dekalb to download showtimes and see what happens,

another issue I am having is that I cannot merge two movies from different zip codes, I want to only add AMC 16 from 30033 and Big Cinemas 8 Peachtree from 30092, can you fix these issues.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
I have a slight problem now.

I went to update the movie list and once it was completed, i went to movies tab and its blank, then i went to theaters which worked but once i clicked on the sessions tab it comes up with the following "no session found".

I uninstalled the program then reinstalled it but it still did the same thing, is this a known issue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
It sounds like you are in Australia, so this could be the problem. During development of Flix 2 I spotted the data source has changed slightly. I should be able to patch this over the weekend :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
Yeah mate I sure am from Australia, how do you pick up the cinema listings she sessions? Just a bit curious if you don't mind sharing, looking forward to the update.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markpud:
Hi... I had an idea for this app.. any way you could make it update listings in the background so it will always have those up-to-date listings and we don't have to wait for it to update? :)

Having an option for auto-updates would be great for those of us on unlimited data plans :)

Keep up the great work, thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Auto-update is def' something I will consider for Flix 2. Perhaps not the first release, depends how things go...

And Australian listings currently use Google (Flix 2 will use google more)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] radon222:
Since you brought it up....any idea when we might get to beta test Fix 2?:p:cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Well, it's coming on ok, although I have just updated to a new version of the controls I am using... which now gives me over 200 build errors; quite a lot has been updated. So I have some refactoring to do.

The basics are there though, although things like GPS, auto updater and so on aren't done.

I'd hope to release a beta fairly soon though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
is there a fix for the Australian flix users? or do we need to wait for flix 2?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
First post updated :)

I've only tested the fix briefly, so let me know how you get on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
It seems to be working fine so far thanks VERY much for that mate, great app.

Also it still wont work with the USB plugged into it when you do an update.

I see a new option there which has google maps drop down menu, whats that for/how do we use it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
That is so you can specify the path to Google Maps, and Flix will use it instead of the default location (this is for where you can view a map to the cinema by tapping the relevant icon on the theater info page)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
Can I make a sugestion for flix 2, hving an option to view the trailer for the movies that are showing?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
A very simple implementation of this should be in the first release - i.e. you tap the trailer button and it will open up your default browser to the relevant page. This works if you are using the Opera Mini that had flash support and plugins turned on.

Ideally I want to get it to play natively, either within the app or maybe via one of the "media player" applications but I had no luck with this on the first attempt.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gamecore:
Ah ok i dont have opera mini app, but it would be great if it were within the app or by using a 3rd party player, either way though i wish you good luck with it.

I love the app which is very simple but informative and i cant wait to see how V2 turns out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] simplydat:
I am also very much looking forward to the V2 app! Finally found something similar to the android flixster my friend has been showing me off with. Looking forward to trailer implementation..

Tksss OP
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] coolrich:
I have a problem with my flix app that when I click on my saved theaters, the movie listings for those theaters never fully show. Only the first two movies show, and the text is distorted. Is there any way I can fix this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
Working fine on my HD Mini, HVGA. So far the only thing is that the "Stop" button on the download screen is in the wrong place. It overlaps the progress bar.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dr_strangetrick:
Hi there, I also have the same problem with text being 'distorted' or oversized on my TG01 and my nearest cinema (Star City, Birmingham) which has 30 screens never fully loads either. All I get is about two pages but as mentioned the text is very large so it is of no use.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] simplydat:
V2 release?

Any word on when the V2 will be released? Looking forward to it. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Version 2 is coming along ok. Functionally the initial version is pretty much complete. It's lacking the GPS "where am I" feature but other stuff is in there. A couple of people are helping test out the initial version.

Having said that, I've just ordered a Desire, and my Touch Pro will be heading to the wife, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to put into it after the initial release...

I'm not decided yet on whether to get an individual to take over the development or whether to open-source it. Perhaps the latter as I'd still like to work on it, and there are probably folk out there cleverer than me who can fix some of the bugs :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trebeb:
missing movies

Hello, I tried to download the list of movies of ugc cergy in france and a lot of movies missed.

I have 6 movies in flix and more in real at this cinema.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alecs:
Hi, I am having trouble with this on My HTC HD2.

I installed it last night and chose the config information below (I tested these on Yahoo movies and everything works well):

Country : Australia

Location : Melbourne

Download Posters

Google maps not selected

"Where am I" Selected

It worked for the first time and it downloaded movies but it only had a few cinemas in the centre of Melbourne and I am not in the centre of town.

I then selected the zip code 3187 and am now getting an error. I tried reset and that deleted all the data and still no result.

I tried selecting the google maps.exe, and tried with and without the "Where am I"

The error I get is

"Coloumn 'Country' does not belong to table tbconfig"

There also is a lot of detail when you chose "Details" if you want it.

Can you help me please as I would really love it for this app to work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lycox:
Today I've noticed an issue with Flix.

I can't load the movies from my theater next to me. It's a Cinestar. It seems, that they has changed their movie resources.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peepsnet:
Same for me on the HD2 T-mobile

Don
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mhemart:
Great application

It seems to be a wonderful application but unfortunately, not for Belgian people.

I've seen you used allocine instead of yahoo for French people. Do you think you should be able to use cinenews.be for making it suitable for Belgian guys ?

Great job. I hope to see it working here one day !