BTV Negociator - Alpha release

[jeffreyd_tx]

the error happened at various times, at load, if I right clicked a blocked episode. Initial testing of this new rev seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks and let me state it again that this is the coolest plugin ever. I appreciate all your work.

[Fonceur]

Version 1.15 (beta) is available in the download section (see the link in my sig).

- The crashes reported by jeffreyd_tx should be totally eliminated now.

- Based on the comments from bpsmicro, now most lists have a context menu (accessed by a right-click) and some extended informations at the bottom.

- While I was able to introduce a Duration column to the Recording jobs list, presently I can not add this to the other lists without some major changes. It might happen eventually should I need to change the structure for some other reason, but don't hold your breath...

Since the searches (especially by keyword) can take a long time, I will probably release a 1.16b soon that will put those in a separate thread (it did not help before, but I suspect this part is a better candidate for multi-threading). Apart from that, I am running out of ideas of things to add...

[jeffreyd_tx]

using 1.15 and adding a recording from the search tab, I got this error:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
at System.Number.ParseInt64(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
at Utils.lviTextRec(PropertyBagHelper bagHelper, String text1, ListView myListView)
at BTV_Negociator.Negociator.getAndFill(PVSPropertyBa g[] bag, String bagCondition, BTVScheduler bagScheduler)
at BTV_Negociator.Negociator.Fill_ListView(String Condition)
at BTV_Negociator.Negociator.Fill_AllListViews()
at BTV_Negociator.Negociator.addMyRecording(String newFrequency, ListViewItem myListViewItem, String jobGUID, String myRecording)
at BTV_Negociator.Negociator.miAltAddOnceClick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItemData.Execute()
at System.Windows.Forms.Command.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCommand(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Mes sage& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Mess age& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage (Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(M essage& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
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BTV-Negociator
Assembly Version: 1.0.2156.1735
Win32 Version: 1.0.2156.1735
CodeBase: file:///C:/BTV-Negociator_1.08b/BTV-Negociator.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.drawing.dll
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LaMarvin.Windows.Forms.ColorPicker
Assembly Version: 1.1.81.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.81.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/BTV-Negociator_1.08b/LaMarvin.Windows.Forms.ColorPicker.DLL
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CG.FontCombo
Assembly Version: 1.0.1889.23263
Win32 Version: 1.0.1889.23263
CodeBase: file:///C:/BTV-Negociator_1.08b/CG.FontCombo.DLL
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MultiLineListBox
Assembly Version: 1.0.947.40946
Win32 Version: 1.0.947.40946
CodeBase: file:///C:/BTV-Negociator_1.08b/MultiLineListBox.DLL
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Microsoft.VisualBasic
Assembly Version: 7.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 7.10.3052.4
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/microsoft.visualbasic/7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/microsoft.visualbasic.dll
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Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/accessibility/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/accessibility.dll
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BeyondTVLibrary
Assembly Version: 1.0.2030.21420
Win32 Version: 1.0.2030.21420
CodeBase: file:///C:/BTV-Negociator_1.08b/BeyondTVLibrary.DLL
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System.Web.Services
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.web.services/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.web.services.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
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CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.xml/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.xml.dll
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System.Web
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

[Fonceur]

Ooops, sorry about that. I forgot to change a few things to take into account the latest modifications, which made a mess... The version 1.16 (beta) solved a bunch of problems.

[Fonceur]

Yet another update, version 1.17 (beta).

This version performs the searches in the background, which speeds up the launch. Try to avoid switching to the Search tab while a search is going on as it might prevent it from completing (especially the Keyword search).

[Fonceur]

A new round of beta versions, starting at 1.21 (beta).

On the Search tab, you will now find a Channel sub-tab... Presently it allows you to browse all the programming on a specific channel (you need to know its number (hidden channels are not available) and ignore the frequency column for now). You simply select the Channel from the drop down list, then hit the Search button to retrieve all the programming available in the Guide for that Channel.

The next few releases will add more functionality to that sub-tab.

[Fonceur]

Version 1.22 (beta) is available. This is still mostly setting up the base for future features (adding searches/recordings)...

- Fixed the display of the recording's frequency (if one exist) in the Channel browser. Note that a frequency different than Never does not mean that a recording job exist on this channel, you might be recording it on a different channel.

- Fixed the Date and Time column sorting for the Channel browser.

- The Channel browser list supports multiple rows selection, by holding the control key and left-clicking. The associated select/deselect all and reverse selection options are available through a context menu (right-click).

[Fonceur]

Version 1.23 (beta) is available.

- Fixed the appearance of /// or \\\ in the title of recordings added from the Search tab.

- It is now possible to add Episode searches and create new Recordings in the Channel browser. There are no confirmation prompt, so I would suggest against the idea of testing if it will really create 300 new recording in 30 sec, unless you really want all of those...


So in its current state, you could browse a Channel (say HBO), select the full 2 weeks of programming and create individual Recording jobs for all of them in only a few clicks... While the Episode search has some built in logic preventing from adding the same serie/episode over and over, currently there are no such logic when creating new Recording jobs. What this mean is that if Rome has 5 different episodes shown 6 times each, by selecting all you will create 30 new recordings (even if you already had an existing Recording job for it...), so don't forget to use the Duplicate recordings tab... Of course the internal logic of BTV will prevent the extra recordings from actually happening, but still...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.24 (beta) is available.

- Color coding makes it easier to see which TV shows/movies are already scheduled for recording in the Channel browser (i.e. Green for an actual recording or Gray if it is prevented due to a rerun, recent recording or such). Of course the frequency column was already a good hint...

- For a multiple selection in the Channel browser, redundant recording jobs are not created (i.e. if you select the same movie 5 times, only one job will be created). Since BTV itself prevents those extra recording on the same channel, there was no point adding them anyway. If you really need multiple copies (due for example to some wrong Guide data), you could add them individually and force the recording to happen from the Rejected recording list...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.25 (beta) is available.

Some more improvements to the Channel browser:

- The frequency of TV-Shows/Movies found in the Recent recordings list will be shown as "Recently recorded". Which means that by sorting the frequency column, you can easily see which TV-Shows/Movies are not scheduled for recording and have not been recorded in the last month.

- The list is now updated with the other lists, when appropriate. It should thus remain up to date.

- It is possible to exclude some results on a per channel basis, a new file named "BTV-Negociator.channel" will be created. The main purpose is to get rid of those Sign off and such. Be warned that it will exclude a whole serie, not just a specific episode. In principle, once you have scheduled some movies to record you could exclude them from future browsing and this would act as some kind of master list, though I have no idea how many you can exclude before reaching some format limit...

I will probably be adding some more filtering to the Channel browser tab through some check boxes, but besides that, it is pretty much what I had in mind...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.26 (beta) is available.

- Fixed the change of recording frequency from the Recording jobs list... (broke it one or 2 betas ago)

- Added a second Filters tab, to filter out the results from the Channel browser (not translated yet, using English terms). You can decide to only see the movies, to see anything but the movies, to hide the recently recorded or currently scheduled series/movies.

Known issue:

If you get the HTTP status 404 error message on startup, edit the BTV-Negociator.ini file and set Autosearch to False... It seems I am doing to much thing at the same time and the server does not like it...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.27 (beta) is available.

- Solved some "HTTP status 404" errors occuring when some check boxes were not set to the default values. The change of state while reading the configuration file was forcing the update of some lists before actually loging to the BTV server... ooops

- The Filters 2 sub-tab is now translatable.

[Fonceur]

This is a special build for rmans with the upcoming recordings not filled in order to track down some more "HTTP status 404" errors...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.28 (beta) is available.

- Added a Master List filtering to the Channel browser. This is basically an exclusion list that is not specific to a single channel and can even include all your previous recordings. Since it is not limited to one month like the list of Recent recordings kept by BTV, it is different then the exclude Recent recording check box. Using the Update button on the Filters 2 tab will go through the list of Recent recordings and add them to the Master List. Of course you can also add aything from the Channel browser to it.

- Added some verifications to prevent accessing the web server when not logged in... (i.e. pressing some update/add buttons will simply do nothing if it failed connecting to the web server in the first place...)

That's pretty much it for the Channel browser, so a release version should be following soon...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.29 (beta) is available.

Two quick fixes:

- Fixed a crash when updating the Master List with the Channel browser empty.

- In Episode search, an episode named the same as the serie (i.e. episode Nikita of the serie Nikita) no longer returns a false positive if you are not actually looking for that episode...