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toralf
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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:10 am Post subject: Electronic Program Guide (EPG) - GUI |
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Hi all,
I want to create an EPG with AHK. But I'm stuck with the decision on how to design the GUI. Which controls should be used to represent the data.
My current design would be Text and picture controls in horirontal order (time line). Each line a station. The picture controls would be used for very short shows, e.g. the news, where the text would be too long for the time period.
The text controls would hold the title of the show.
The problem is to position these controls correctly in the time line, but I guess it is possible.
Do you have a better idea to present the data?
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Boskoop
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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For inspiration you can find a long list of EPGs here:
http://membled.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/XmltvRelatedProjects
I personally like this software best (swedish language only):
http://hem.bredband.net/tvguide
That's because of its interface (unfortunately its database isn't of much use to me):
http://hem.bredband.net/tvguide/release/picture1.jpg
Unlike other programs, it gives you all shows of the stations of your choice in one list. You can define filters that highlight your favorite shows or filter out the unwanted ones. The shows you chose are shown in a second window.
I really would appreciate an interface like this, using XMLTV as a database 
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toralf
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Today I finished the seventh beta (over 500 lines, no comments).
For history of changes see comments in code.
Every feedback is appreciated.
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garry
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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hello toralf,
great, toll, stark...
do you know, how can I pre-select my favorite stations like:
Germany >3SAT and ARTE and SF1 |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Nice  What we've to expect next ? Selected details will be displayed within an edit box? Selected items can be converted to become a playlist for your favourite VDR ? Whoopeee ... Grüße auch an die beste Ehefrau von allen  |
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BoBo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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a) What about a reset option? Otherwise a prev. selected station will be included within a following index (if that one doesn't contain as much items as the prev one).
b) dateformat (Available Dates) will be kept! Have a try, swap from German to French.
c) the GUI isn't localized (default=english) while the displayed details will be localized "a HH:MM Uhr". Combined with the previous issue b) I've got 3 languages displayed. GUI=english, Date=francais,Details=deutsch |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| BoBo wrote: | | Nice What we've to expect next ? Selected details will be displayed within an edit box? |
Maybe, but I first have to check if the format is the same. I already had to parse the US pages differently. I do not want to parse too many different HTML formats since each time yahoo changes the format, I have to update the script. | BoBo wrote: | | Selected items can be converted to become a playlist for your favourite VDR ? Whoopeee ... |
That might be possible. But i'm not sure if the data is accurate enough. | BoBo wrote: | | a) What about a reset option? Otherwise a prev. selected station will be included within a following index (if that one doesn't contain as much items as the prev one). |
I made it on purpose that way. I wanted to have a list with the programs of multiple stations. So I can see what is running on my favorite stations at the same time on one glance. | BoBo wrote: |
b) dateformat (Available Dates) will be kept! Have a try, swap from German to French. |
I take the format of the web page. Otherwise I would need to translate. And I guess it will not be a problem, since if you are interessted in French TV I guess you understand french. | BoBo wrote: |
c) the GUI isn't localized (default=english) while the displayed details will be localized "a HH:MM Uhr". Combined with the previous issue b) I've got 3 languages displayed. GUI=english, Date=francais,Details=deutsch |
As I said before I take what is on the web page. I do not translate. But I wonder how you got the "Uhr" when you were looking at french TV, the "Uhr" is only on german TV. Same as the Details. For details on french TV programs you should get to a link of an french webpage.
Could you give me an example?
I plan to create a filter, so that the user can easily limit the time-range of the program. E.g. I'm mostly not interessted what is shown at 6am-15pm and from 23pm-5am. But at that time the format of the different pages kicks in again.  |
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BoBo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| No idea if this isn't a default. If you double click at the separator line (the line which separates two columns at the column bar (details area)) the column shrinks to a preset (?) width. I would have expected that its the other way arround (spreads to its content max width). But I might be wrong ... |
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toralf
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| BoBo wrote: | | No idea if this isn't a default. If you double click at the separator line (the line which separates two columns at the column bar (details area)) the column shrinks to a preset (?) width. I would have expected that its the other way arround (spreads to its content max width). But I might be wrong ... |
If you double click at the separator line the column width is adjusted to fit its content. Do you see a different behavior?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Do you see a different behavior? |
I've to be more specific. The listbox is empty. If you double cklick at the sep. line. its column will "collapse" to a default/minimum, regardless that the content/columnheader indicates that it shouldn't.
Wenn in der spaltenüberschrift "Lines" drinsteht, dachte ich, die spalte reduziert sich auf die breite des wortes "Lines" solange nicht durch spalteninhalte anderweitig vorgegeben. stattdessen schrumpft sie auf eine defaultbreite und schluckt die spaltenüberschift. Eigentlich kein wirkliches problem - eher akademischer natur  |
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toralf
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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If there is nothing in the column, and you double click on it, the column will shirnk to a very narrow column. It doesn't care about the header. That is normal behavior.
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toralf
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Second beta in above post.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Second beta in above post. |
Would you mind to point out fixes/changes aka history. JM2C.  |
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toralf
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Third beta in above post, with change history as comment in code.
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toralf
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Fourth beta in above post
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