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Accessing Guide information

Last post 08-31-2010, 11:06 PM by AndyC. 1 replies.
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  •  08-31-2010, 5:13 AM 9859

    Accessing Guide information

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    Hello everybody,

    I have this idea of showing more info about tv programmes found in EPG. The idea is that user could somehow invoke a "Detailed info" (something like that) on a programme in EPG. The information shown would be retrieved from imdb.org (or similar) server. Is something like this possible? I know there are lot of movies browsers and libraries which get info from servers like imdb, but these work for movie's library. I want to get the info for curretly broadcasted TV programme. So, what do you think? Possible?

  •  08-31-2010, 11:06 PM 9862 in reply to 9859

    Re: Accessing Guide information

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    You could try experimenting with the category "More With This\TV" and see where that creates it's "More..." button. It may provide some context about what you are browsing at the time.

    Search the SDK documentation for "category element" to find out how this works (the TV option isn't documented, but it may still work).

    Cheers
    Andrew
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