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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, I'll see if I can work out the other error. It all seems to work ok on my device so it must be down to things with specific data. Thanks to users who let me know their config so I can try to replicate it.

ProfEngr- can you try deleting all the xml/xsd files in the Program Files\Flix folder and see if it then works ok? The Empty db files are created when it first runs, but if some are there and some not, then it may get confused.

I do want to put in the ability to cancel the update, but I'll need to alter the updates a little to run in a separate thread to keep the UI responsive. Should be possible though :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Jonny-:
Thanks jmbillings, app update fixed problem. But now still having same problem as humble.

Also, (don't know if linked), but when view a film, then press 'clock', I only see one cinema - although it is showing in two.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Linux:
Flix not work for Italy?Any solutions?Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flo1980:
I think this application is useful.

Thanks for developing it.

I live in Paris, France (sorry for my bad english) and I try to configure FLIX with postal code and it doesnot work.

So I try to set the city name (paris) and I noticed that if I write paris it doesnot find any results but that work with Paris. It's case-sensitive.

After discovering that, I try to synchronize the application at 14:30.

Now it 's 18:10 and the synchronisation is at letter U Too long for me
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
Deleting those files worked! Thanks.

What's the search radius for zip codes in the US? It's only showing 1 theater and there are more than 4 that show up in yahoo. Not a big deal since the one listed is usually the only one I visit, but sometimes I hit others.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Glad the file deleting worked.

I don't specify any radius - it should return the same results as the Yahoo website does.

If not, can you let me know the location you entered so I can try it here? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
flo,

I live in Paris too, and it works.

Just use the zipcodes, separated by ";", and no space.

For instance 75001;75002
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
Error - doble post
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
Error for every city in Spain I think:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] orlandojumpoff:
i love your app, but could you possibly add the date to the thread title every time you update... like many of the others do? that way we know if there's a version we missed just by seeing the title in the main forum. As it is, i bet there are others that don't check the thread because they don't think there's been an update. Just a small suggestion! Thanksss
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flo1980:
Does it take as much time as me?

I also noticed that Flix show me only the movie of the first cinema in the downloaded list.

Other conama like UGC are empty
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adeadby30v:
i'm having the same problem i'm using area code 90230 (US) i only get one theater.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aspring:
When I do an update Flix only pulls information for the first theatre in the Yahoo results. It then proceeds to download information for all the movies in the results, even the movies showing at the other theatres in the original results.

I'm currently set up to pull info for two US zip codes: 98115;98125

Only show times for the first theatre in each zip code get downloaded. I run into the same issues when I've specified a single zip code. I completely removed Flix and it's program folder and then reinstalled, and still run into the program.

I've attached my logfile.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I've managed to get the same behaviour here with US Zips, it does indeed seem to be only picking up the first theater.

It used to be fine so hopefully it's something minor I changed recently that broke it and I can fix it quite quickly :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Update posted to fix the "one theater" problem.

Note I've also made changes to the listviews "under the hood" - this is for the next release where I'm hoping to incorporate sending of SMS from within Flix :)

Anyway - for spain I tried Torrevieja the other day and it worked, but if you still get problems, PM me your location so I can test.

Thanks all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khoury4:
I upgraded to the latest release today and found several things:

1) The Single theatre issue appears to have been fixed, at least during the downloading process.

2) The theatre button results in a crash. I get an error which states the that theatrelist column cannot be found.

3) From the movie description screen, the when hit the clock, I get "No movies times found".

Thanks for this app, and keep up the hard work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi

It sounds like perhaps the download didn't finish completely or possibly your datafiles aren't correct.

Could you try the download again and see if the same thing happens?

If it does, could you let me know your location (via PM if you prefer) and also maybe zip up and send me all the .xsd / .xml files from your Program Files\Flix folder?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
With the new release it seems same problem, when it is downloading film info for first time, app shows an error screen. I have tried San Sebastian city in Spain (España). And I think that is the problem ("cinesa Heron city" theatre or something like that is which is giving problems).

I have tried Toledo city in Spain to check the problem and everything is OK now!!!

Could you provide a list of cities that are working well... or what webpage this apps is consulting for the info? Or how can I add a theatre that works manually?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caballero600:
Okey, Problem founded, I have visited yahoo for searching my city, and this web has incorrect information... Becouse If you search "San Sebastian" it comes with one theartre in Barcelona called (cinesa heron city) and another near Madrid (heron las rozas) which both make this app close. I think it confuses "San Sebastian" with "San Sebastian de los Reyes"... 2 different cities or something like that.

EDIT:If you click in yahoo by city it shows correct information in San sebastian, but the search function doesn't work well. It gives another information than:

http://es.movies.yahoo.com/cartelera/s/san-sebastian/all-movies.html

So I have tried putting in City: "san-sebastian" (NOT "san sebastian)

and now works OK. :rolleyes:

The button "Administrar Cines" doesn't work with downloading... This app only downloads searching by the city, so I can add them manually but don't work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, it's good you probed Yahoo and got it working!

To "Administer Cines" and pre-ignore, you need to use the ID number of the cinema to ignore; so find it in Yahoo and get the ID from the URL. Or do a download, then click the ignore (crossed out popcorn) button on the cinema you don't want... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
Restoring after Hard Reset

I'd like to drop the data/settings files in my Sashimi backup scripts to save some update time on a hard reset. If that's feasible, where do I find them?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
If you look in Program Files\Flix (or wherever else you installed it) you will see some FlixData XML files with associated XSD's - such as FlixDataConfig.xml, FlixDataMovies.xml etc.

These xml/xsd files are the ones you need to be backing up.

You should do all of them to avoid problems - if you only restored the config file for instance, Flix may well then fail to create the other ones it needs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ProfEngr:
ok, dropped that into the sashimi file backup ini. thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fuorionda:
I tried to download cinema data for Italy (any city) but a window says "nessun cinema trovato". No problem for other country like Uk.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] austinite007:
Great app

I believe this would be a great app for me but I had to try downloading multiple times before I could get it to save all the info it downloaded. Once I got that to finally work, I browsed through my theater listings and the one theater that is of geographic interest to me will NOT pull up movie listing times. I get an error message that says "No showtimes found!". This theater also happens to be the very first listing of all the theaters in my area, not sure if that matters though. Any solution would be nice. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hi there

Sorry you're having trouble - if it keeps failing to download it's usually because the connection isn't being reliable enough (Flix does download quite a bit) - if you've not already done so, I'd suggest manually adding in the theaters you want to ignore from the config screen (look up their ID number in the URL at movies.yahoo.com). If that doesn't help, have you tried downloading while hooked up to a PC (via ActiveSync?) as that can be more reliable.

Finally, if you get no listings once it looks like it finished, have you checked Yahoo to ensure there actually are some? If you're still having trouble, PM me your location you used, and I can test it out here (Yahoo do have the issue of changing stuff now and then which can break Flix...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] csmiler:
City support request.

Can you please add support for the city Mangalore(India)? Yahoo does have support for it http://in.movies.yahoo.com/showtimes_by_city.html)

Please?

Best movie app for winmo yet!

kudos!

Csmiler :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
If Yahoo supports India then I should be able to add it.

I'm currently working on sending SMS from within Flix - for various reasons I've not been able to work on it much recently though :(

But once that is done I can look at India (and Australia too as it's one I want to add)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikeact:
A quick, hopefully simple one, from an OAP (!) Downloaded the CAB to my Touch HD OK....tapped and installed OK, hit the program button, but nothing. Did a soft reset but still nothing....help/advice please..thanks, Mike.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hmm, not a problem I've seen before.

Could you lok in \program files\flix on your device - do you have a bunch of xml and xsd files? The first thing it will do on a fresh install is create new database files...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pda_fanatic:
Hi. I have the same problem - downloaded the cab and installed to the main memory on the device (Touch Pro 2); tapped on Flix in the start menu but nothing happens. I checked the Flix folder in program files and there are several files in it. I notice that net 3.5 is needed for Flix to work. I've just downloaded it and will install later and try Flix again. I'll let you know if there is any change.

Jonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
That's correct - Flix does require .net 3.5

I would have thought the os would throw an error if it wasn't installed, but perhaps not... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pda_fanatic:
OK. All fixed! I installed Net 3.5 and reinstalled Flix. Works a treat. Great program. Thanks. :)

Jonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garyjmobey:
Is flix badly effected by restricted/low memory?

I've run it for eh13 (edinburgh)

and it bombed on both cinema and films

with an out of memory exception

I then run ram sweeper

and I can now get the cinema list

unfortunately can't get the film listings

I'm running Dutty HG with 2.5 sense

and switching off manila/sense made no difference

-- new

switched to a 6.1 rom (miri v31)

and I can now mostly use it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garyjmobey:
my cut off seems to be about 53% memory usage
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
The problem will be the 3rd party control I use for the scrolling list - it does appear to suffer from low memory to an extent. I believe they are working on an update to help with this area though.

For now, I'd suggest limiting the cinemas it downloads if you haven't already - for instance if it's found 7 or 8 cinemas for your location but you only ever visit one or two of them, "ignore" the rest- this will help as it will download less. Obviously if the same movies are shwoing at all cinemas it won't make much difference, but if there is a dozen arthouse places all showing a couple of obscure films then it will bump up the count quite a bit.

I'm running a 6.5 rom on my touch pro, downloading for 3 multiplexes and I don't get out of memory errors.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garyjmobey:
I'd knocked it down to 3 cinemas

it seems fine enough if check via movies rather than cinema

thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panja83:
I have a problem after an update, my town is 83000 Toulon France

In movies I have this

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In cinemas I have this

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] celebfindel:
Any spanish (or other country with more than one language) first check yahoo.

Alicante (spain) can be found working as Alacant.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DLTempler:
I am in 33160. I dl'ed Flix and I already had netcfv3.5 installed. During downloading I can see it is pulling from all of the theaters in my area. However, when I tap the theater button after the download completes I get the error message that the theaterlist column can not be found.

EDIT: This is repaired. I had uninstalled the program and reinstalled it several times to no avail. However, the Flix files under Program Files had been maintained. I manually deleted them and uninstalled the program, then reinstalled and allowed the full download overnight. All is working now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cyho:
HI

when i use the code 01000 in france the soft doesn't work, for another like 63000 is ok. What's wrong ? If i do "Where i am", i have a blue windows a the bottom of scren with A GPS... (HTC TOUCH HD)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Panja83 - looks like an incomplete download - can you try again?

Cyho - have you tried that code on Yahoo.fr? Does it return information? If so, Flix should also work; let me know :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kompozitor:
Problems on french codes

I have the same pb on french postcodes : it does not find the theatres
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, I tested 63000 here, and it is behaing wrong. Yahoo may have changed the way the data is presented, so I may need to make a fix :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kompozitor:
france

Well we are all awaiting it your soft is great ! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panja83:
Yes I try again. The download is completed. Same problem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, I've tracked this down to Yahoo changintheir page encoding to UTF-8, so I should be able to fix it soon :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kompozitor:
Flix

I can't wait for it :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, the first post now has a new version, 1.0.9.4

I've released this sooner than planned (well, actually a lot later as due to a family illness i've not been able to do much recently :( ) because of the change Yahoo made to French lookups. I wanted to wait a little as it also includes SMS sending.

This new feature is not really tested so could be buggy :), but it works like this...

In Config there is an SMS button. This lets you configure a "template" message - there are four variables that can be inserted using the blue links and these will be replaced when you actually send your message (so if you know how mail merge works, it's a bit like that!). There is a default message already set up. French users should also get one in their own language. If you want to create a default message for other languages then post it here so everyone knows its been done, but as you can configure your own anyway, it's not too important.

When you then click a showtime, you will get a new screen - choose a time and your message will be displayed. Press the tick to continue, and then choose some recipients. Find them with the ABC, DEF etc buttons - it'll load relevant ones - tap them to add to the list at the bottom of the screen. To remove one, tap it in the bottom list.

Once you pick your recipients, you can then press the envelope to send the SMS :)

Orginally, I loaded all contacts- but this often ran out of memory :( so now you get ABC, DEF etc. If you still get out of memory errors because you have more friends than me(!), I might have to change it some more...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
Thanks for the new version James, good to see you are still working on this.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Panja83:
Thanks, This version works with Toulon!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DezzyLee99:
Finally got it to work in Calgary, Canada!

Just had to enter Calgary,Ab in the location slot, no spaces and a comma, not a semi-colon as seen in the example.

Just have to go to yahoo movies Canada site and enter your location, and use that for your location. I tried Calgary, and CAlgary;Ab, and even my postal code and it never worked on yahoo, so it's not the app, it's how Yahoo handles locations.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Good news! Indeed, it's always best to check it on Yahoo, I do find it can be quite fussy.

The semicolons are used when you want to use several locations - so you could have "Calgary,Ab;Someplace,state" for instance, and Flix will download from both.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gorrunwe:
Qu'est ce que c'est que cette bouse de Yahoo ???

Quelle que soit la localité que je rentre, il me sort qu'il n'y a aucune séance connue ? (Même pour Paris, c'est dire...).

Honnêtement, ce serait génial si ton programme pouvait prendre en compte des sites FIABLES tels que Allocine.fr...

En tout cas merci pour ton boulot

P.S : désolé pour nos amis anglophones mais l'incompétence notoire de Yahoo m'a fichu sur les nerfs, pas envie de traduire.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
the SMS feature works for me, just a cosmetic observation though. When I click on the ABC bit at the top the contact list populates correctly but there is no scroll bar on the RHS and also on my Xperia it only occupies a wee bit in the middle.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
@gorrunwe - I originally picked Yahoo as it was the easiest to extract data from at the time, but I'm also aware it's not massively reliable for a lot of people. I've already had a couple of suggestions of alternative data sources, so when I get some free time I'll try and look into changing it to use something better.

@deedee- There isn't a scrollbar because it uses the same "touch list" as in the rest of the system - so you should be able to move up and down the contacts by flicking up and down. Looking at your screenshot though, it's not drawing stuff in the right place properly. I think that's going to be because of the "longer" screen you have compared to my VGA device. I'll see if I can tidy it up for the next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
Absence of a scroll bar is no biggie, once i realised it would scroll anyway. :)

Guessed the visuals were due to the longer screen. Is it also only 2/3rds width by design?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] radon222:
FYI Jmb,

I'm not sure if anyone else in the US is having problems, but I'm wondering if Yahoo changed there database here as well. I can download updates and get movie descriptions and theaters either by GPS location or manual zip code entry; but no Show Times are available anymore.

Certainly nothing that can't wait until after the Holidays.

Have a Merry Christmas
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kompozitor:
pb with france too

Hi i have a pb with france too

It says "no theatre found in this town"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Terolex:
Problem in France with Yahoo! :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] salexanda:
Hello

I try your soft but for the France I found no cinema even for Paris.

I look on the site Yahoo Movie and when I go on cinema list, there is no cinema available.

The site isn't good for your soft.

Can you find for the France another base for your soft like Aol or Allocine.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ryryq:
I'm hanging out for Australia support.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Australia is still on the list - I'm aiming for the next release to fix France to an alternative data source and to also add Australia.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kompozitor:
Hi...

The best data source for france is allocine
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andreatozzi:
Any cinema in Italy for me too (i've found them on http://it.movies.yahoo.com/cinemas/?mid=&cid=&sp=mov&zip=Brescia). Everything is ok when i test youp app with France-63000

May you help us ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Looks like a slight URL and encoding change at Yahoo. I should be able to fix Italy quickly :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
OK, new version uploaded that should hopefully work for Italy...

(Other countries users probably don't need to bother with this version as no other changes...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vdelab:
Hello;

this app is really great... thnaks soo much for sharing.

Could you just explain if I do it right to add a movies theatre in the list to keep up to date?

Basically, in the config windows, I enter my location (france, Toulouse), and at the first update, it works fine, downloading all data for all Toulouse city theater.

Then, i'd like to add a few of the surrounding city (blagnac, tournefeuille, and so on...)

so I go in the menu, in "gestion des salles", and there I have two fields :

"Nombre" (number in english, I suppose)

"Nom"

What does "nombre" expect there?I tried put a value, but it crash when update starts.... ?

Which name is expected? a city, the theater?

Also, just for my knowledge, when it does an update, does it systematically reload everything? or only what has changed? Basically, no need to reload movies image and synopsis (only the new ones), or the theater information... just the schedule and the new movies?

Thanks for all,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Hello,

The screen where you add a name and number is actually to NOT download a theatre. So, say for Toulouse, it downloads 7 theatres, but you only ever visit 3 of them, you can "ignore" the ones you don't want. The easy way to do this is to click the "crossed out popcorn" icon on the theatre information. The screen you see is to ignore a theatre before you even downloaded it. The number is in the url when you look at the theatre on the Yahoo website (although I am looking to change Flix to use Allocine instead).

If you want surrounding cities, you add them in your location, like this:

Toulouse;blagnac;tournefeuille

If you separate each by a semicolon (;) then it will download for each location.

When it does an update, it does reload everything. It's true this isn't ideal, but at the moment the data is stored in flat XML files. To make it update only changes I'd need to use a database really. But - it will only download movie info once per session, so if it has already downloaded the poster for Avatar for one theatre, it shouldn't do it again in that download.

Thanks for trying it out :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] focosi:
After uninstalling (complete uninstall using SKTools) Flix v.1.0.9.4 and re-installing v.1.0.9.5, Flix does not work for Italy yet. Should we manually delete some config files ? After uninstall it still remembers selected city....

I have also tried to remove the Flix installation folder left back after uninstalling, but this didn't fix the problem. Could you please try whether you can download data for Pisa (Italy) ? Thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
I tested Brescia - although not on my device, it was on the emulator.

Have you checked Yahoo to see if Pisa works?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] focosi:
It seems as there is a bug on Yahoo Italy (http://it.movies.yahoo.com/orario-cinema/) which can't provide any search result for any Italian city or ZIP code... Which will be the right search string (if any?) ???