thanks for the heads up

i just reposted the script again.. its good NOW, damn typos

I kept messing with it cause the ESRB wasnt coming down. but it wasnt the code. I sent Blazed a message a little while back askin him to rename the ESRB icons so they have the filename the same as the number they represet in the xml.. but i think he missed it in the barrage of msgs i sent.

gonna have to pm him. the script will work once the filenames on the server are changed.

Well, the problem is in the new interpreter code. I'm working out some of it now, perhaps an update tomorrow (tonight will be too busy).

Basically, I switched halfway over to a new system for parsing through the scripts, and it broke some things (doh!), so now I must finish switching over. Some of the stuff is rather convoluted now, though.... particularly with the addition of all the UI event handling stuff.

I knew it was the new interperater stuff. Hopefully after you get done with the second half of it, every thing will work as it should.

np, yea, we never thought of the KA-13...but i saw it on the ESRB.org site and downloaded the icon.

should probably put that in the scripts, just name it 7 and i will add it in.


When i was grabbing covers it hit me that europe and other nations may have adopted a different style than the ESRB that we are using. Cant think of a solution without asking which style in the dialogs prior to download.

would need to find the other ratings and thier meanings though.

script updated with some enhancements from flattspott, and beter logic/error handling.

chillin_dude, you can use opera again once Blazed updates the page on the site.

edit: updated script to use png for the thumbs (slight oversight) to support transparency. Will update the web code soon.

Script updated to support hombrew testing. You need to delete the content.xml out of the mxm dir on E\Udata if you plan on trying it out.

Used some of flattspotts beautiful code to put the homebrew titles in a listbox and enabled it to bypass the hexid check. so the box version of the code is ready to go (although it needs major cleanup).

Currently reads a homebrew.xml file on AXS. The file is actually game titles and no videos are available, but you can still download the cover and esrb.

i just tried it and now have an All Star Baseball Cover in my Boxplorer dir

Will update the webserver db and php to set up a flag for sorting when writing out the xmls.

yes

Cool, however lets not forget where the original code came from... BenJeremy and his internal.xml. Cause thats what a used in NewsChanger.

damn, you mean we have to give props to BJ for providing us samples to use as well as props for MXM itself?




and thanks

Homebrew update is up on xbox-skins.net, so i updated the url in the script (first post).

will get it populated soon, i only put a couple apps in there to begin with.

Will also be updateding the web page version for those that like to browse.
It will make finding the homebrew a lot easier.

should a checkbox be added so that covers downloaded are duped to default.tbn for XBMC? just wondering, its nice to see them when you run that app instead of the normal ones.

That sounds good to me. Although I rarely look at my games and applications while in XBMC. Other people however could use this feature.

Yeah, I dont use it either. But I imagine there would be some people who do

I agree, it wouldn't hurt as an option, but hopefully those Gueax.net guys will write a python script for XBMC that connects to the DB too...

i thought about the python script for it today, downloaded the small ?tutorial? someone wrote on it. doesnt look too bad, but my question is... "Will XBMC provide the python script a hexid#?"

Just added a lot of XPort stuff tonight to the db.. including some custom mini-dvd covers that took all night to make. . I needed to get other stuff done

Still ahve more homebrew to add, doomx, quakex, duck hunt etc.

Can't wait till BJ adds the progress bar stuff so this script will be great...



*hint* *hint*

I know what you mean, I'd use them for everything. IE, when a game loads it resources, etc.

well i just added a progressbar gosub to the script. Draws the box based on var that is set at each step. Its cude and not accurate right now because i just set the progress all the way down the script, but it might be worth using (?).

The progressbar would have to be dressed up and drawn outside the dialog too.

script on first page updated if anyone wants to see what i mean.

Why do you have SET _contentprogress 200 at the top, then soon after that you set it to 0? You don't have any GoSubs for it when it's at 200.

Also, I'm sitting here rewritting the entire script one line at time, trying to fine-tune it to perfection and I noticed this interesting thing I like to call WTF:

Pssssssst..... Ahem.......


1205 is now up. Let me know if this clears up some issues.

(Oh, has flattspott's internal.xml contribution, too)

lol exactly the reason they teach us to read top -> down and yet i still read the forums bottom -> up.


Edit: flattspott, if you intend to keep the progress bar in there during the re-write, use a range of 0-200 and the following progressbar layout, looks nicer and gives use a greater range to use for more frequent updates and better "movement"

replace all the "successful" messages with the progress gosub, wont slow the script and provides visual info.

true on using the ghetto stuff. but i would just assume go with ghetto till after the this version is released. Let BJ finish the PNP and other stuff he has panned, fix the bugs we find and still provide some kind of user info at the same time.

Everyone knows ppl are anxious for the next release and we know BJ can only do so much alone in so little time. which is why i say that.

just my 2 cents though.

Yeah, yeah.... progress bar will be slick enough, I just want to get the PnP out of the way FIRST. The longer that stuff sits, the more my brain hurts and I worry I might miss something important.

Sorry.... Just wanted an update , I knew it was on the back-burner of all the ideas (couple hundred or so..??) floating through your head at any given moment...

Thanks for the update though...

Wow no posts in 24 bours from anyone.... Must be spring/summer fever... I myself played baseball and basketball today, having beautiful weather around here today and yesterday.... Been a great weekend... Hope everyone else had the same...

( I know I know, useless post, but it has been a beautiful weekend )

I know, I was wondering the same thing.

similar to me yuyu!!!
it was too nice weather so I had a footie match saturday and cricket on sunday, now todays task is to totally remake my menu.xml... It's going to take some time
But then it will be PERFECT for me

I just realized, I think I completly missed the last half of page 5 of this this topic. Silly me.

As for the Context issue though. This is a problem. SetState Blank when used form a Context script will work only the Context menu will still be on top.

Theres seems to have been a fair amount of new games added to the DB in the last few days. (Thanks to KF and flattspott I am guessing)

Most of the videos for these new games have been linked as well.

DB is looking much more "complete" these days

I just noticed that the link to download vids have changed.

Yeah, both ways working for me too.

And its more kudos to KoldFuzion than me

yes, both should work fine, however, when requesting a vid using the dash, then sendvid.php should be used. (but doesnt have to be)

Flattspott put together the large majority of the data, some was done using mxm scripts. some by requesting from inside the dash. Not as many titles need to have the videos linked as before, but there are still some left to do.

There is still a lot of titles missing but they cannot be added without the hexid.

UnleashX, are you adding the ability to request content from the dash, if a video does not exist in the database, or if the title itself does not exist?


I give kudos to everyone, BJ, Unleash, flattspott, Blazed and all users who will eventually benefit from this.

Ok yeah meant to say a while ago in regards to something like this never being done before...

It has been like this kinda, in the rom scene with their dat files. Only difference is that they are aren't tied together with a website. The closet on is some GBA dat front end that'll go and download the cover art based on the missing XXXX rom number. Images are named like so 0001.png. If you only had the 0001.png, and the dat went up to 0010.png then it would download the other nine.

sendvid.php is working. Sorry for the confusion, must be my fast internet connection yesterday, heh.

I just tried request.php using the following URL:

Got that covered and I remember the discussion about homebrew apps with ID's of 00000000 or ffff051f. I was more after the question of whether that's the only thing I needed to do to post a request. Whether that requested link will automatically create it.

Edit: sorry guys if I'm acting like a newb here asking those silly questions instead of reading the entire thread. Tell me if it's all here and I'll read every page again.

yes, thats all you have to do to post a request.

You dont have to check for anything serverside, or client side if your code handles successes/failures itself.

You dont have to re-read the entire threads either. Ill reply with any questions you have. or PM you if you like.

heheh, thanks KF. I got all the downloading stuff covered and I didn't saw any discussion about submitting a request until you mentioned it (Well, I missed it at least). So I thought it would be good to add it in. The way I had it is that when a request fail, it automatically sends a request back to the server. These should make collecting all those IDs a cinch. . Thanks guys.

I feel so stupid for missing the script just about completely...
Checking it out now...
Edit: Had a few problems with comments messing up things, but fixed those.

e.g. If blah GOTO somelabel;this is to go there

The comment became part of the label, and a space had to be added like so:
If blah GOTO somelabel ;this is to go there

Unforunately, my network doesn't want to share dialup, so I can't test out the downloading capabilities.