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BLEB - FireW0lf - 12-15-2005
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bleb.org/tv">www.bleb.org/tv</a><!-- w --> does an extremely good tv listing, and it's free, and has good docs on how to implement it in your app
any chance of...?
- Q Section - 12-15-2005
This would be a relatively easy plugin to make although as things currently stand we would need to have a separate plugin for each channel (one for each different web page).
- FireW0lf - 12-15-2005
There is more than one way of using bleb
You could parse the web page (1 page holds upto 8 channels - not 1 per page)
You could get and parse the XML directly
Either way, wouldnt be too difficult to write a plugin that shows several channels in 1 instance
- Q Section - 12-16-2005
Very sorry, old chap. You are absolutely correct in that eight channels can be displayed per page and hence per plugin. Perhaps if one of us gets a free few moments we can look into it further for you.
- FireW0lf - 12-17-2005
It's a pity there's no nice neat documented API for plugins :o(
I'm a classic VB programmer, and can implement this stuff easily, or even as a deskband, but so far it doesnt seem to easy to integrate into TLB
Otherwise, I'd be making lots of nice plugins... Right now I'm throwing a quick app together to interface with MSN (a TLB request for a long time as I've seen in here), and next I'll be doing a gmail notifier
If I had a neat API I could make all these as TLB plugins
- Q Section - 12-24-2005
The steps to create the bleb plugin are as follows:
You first need to obtain the Weather Monitor plugin and then change the coding in the provider file to parse the applicable parts of the customised page in bleb you wish to have displayed. Then you must alter or create a new skin based on the template within the WM plugin to properly display your data. Additional WM information can be had here. If you need further assistance please post here. By the way - you may wish to have a short look-see at the link in our signature regarding special plugins.
Best wishes.