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Re: [ECS] Programming Question Bill Walters Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:51:18 -0600

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David,

OK, sorry but it wasn't clear from your event, since there isn't anything in
it which shows how information is loaded into your "PGM Show X" items (X
being from 1 to 20).

Dang..... I just reworded a sentence 4 times!  This stuff is so confusing to
me that I can't even properly describe it!

If I remember correctly, TVL3.TMP is derrived from TVLFAV.TXT file....  Are
you saying you have certain channels or ? set there?  Do you listen to
announcements, whatever?

Are you saying that I should place  HBO, HBOP, HBOPL, HBOPLP, HBOSIG, MAX,
MAXP, MOMAX, SHOW, SHOWP and SHOW2 into the channel description of
TVLFAV.TXT, with the leading character as - (not A,R,V,F, whatever)

It's just not clear to me how you "load" your items and from where......  It
sounds like your doing substantially what I want to do, but you're only
displaying one program title per button.  I take it that you have
pre-programmed those buttons (within ACE) to change your TV to the desired
channel (I've done that), so you're loading up buttons in a particular
sequence based on channel ID?

Arraugh, this is so confusing!

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael David <michael@michaeldavid.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:22 PM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Programming Question


> Hi Bill!
>
> Actually, the show titles that are in the Pgm x TV Show items, are derived
> from processing tvl3.tmp.  It just so happened that the show names you saw
> were the last that had been picked up from the last time I had TVL
enabled.
>
> So, you can grab the show names from TVL and send them to Ace Buttons from
> within ECS.  Is there something else you wanted on that button beside the
> show name?
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 7:52 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Programming Question
>
>
> Hi Michael!
>
> Yes, because I don't know what the names of the shows are....
>
>
> The idea is to have a button for HBO, HBOP, etc, etc, etc, (5 HBO's, 3
> Showtimes, 3 Cinemax's) and have ECS "pull" the names of the shows, start
> times, run times (in fact, the line of text that is appropriate to the
> channel) from TV-GUIDE.TXT.....  Mark's events have taken most of the work
> out of it, I just wanted to selectively display individual "channel"
> information on individual "buttons" in ACE.
>
> Your way works just fine if you have certain programs you want to watch
> regularly (you already know what their name is); I'm trying to put up
Movie
> Listings, whose titles change every several hours.
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael David <michael@michaeldavid.com>
> To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 5:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Programming Question
>
>
> > Hi Bill!
> >
> > Any special reason you are using a file to get the show names to ACE
> > buttons?  Here's how I do it:
> >
>
>
>
>

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