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Script Bugs, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:02:14 +0000

Please report problems with this script here.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:53:09 +0000

I'm just going to admit it. I don't have the bandwidth to maintain TTG for multiple listing sites. The truth is, excite is the only site that I have been able to keep up with for over a year. And at this point, most TTG functionality is broken for most of the other sites. Therefore I will be stripping out all of that unused code in upcoming versions, and will be supporting only the excite listing. I apologize if you've been holding your breath waiting for fixes for other sites.

The lesson I've learned here is that, even for sites that provide equivalent information, the differences can be just too great to unify under a common concept.

Why excite? Because despite it's plain jane design, it provides the richest information in a form that can best be leveraged via scripting. Its relatively sparse design also lends itself to the original and central theme of TTG: a compact, at-a-glance grid.

Archived Comments, replied by aAlexo

aAlexo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:30:38 +0000

imdb links are not showing for me on
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid....

Archived Comments, replied by Kerry1960

Kerry1960 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:54:41 +0000

Does not work at all with TvGuide or Zap2it. Excite is well known for tracking cookies. Isolates the grid for www.imdb.com/tvgrid/, but no current time. Haven't tried the others...

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:06:09 +0000

The latest version includes enhancements to the Preferences dialog, a new Omit Channels feature (channel ranges), and a minor performance improvement. See Docs link.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:50:56 +0000

Steve, there is a preference called omitChannels. I have documented it now. Follow the Docs link above. Also, watch for the next release coming soon that sports a new Preferences dialog...

Archived Comments, replied by s_t_e_v_e

s_t_e_v_e — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:09:11 +0000

Hi Chris. This looks really slick on excite. Is there any way to add a preferences feature to be able to hide channels that I'm not interested in?

Archived Comments, replied by jbh

jbh — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:25:11 +0000

Would it be possible to update the script so that Zap2It listings fill the whole screen instead of just the left half?

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:11:07 +0000

The meevee adapter has never worked very well because they load most of their information dynamically *after* page has loaded. Consequently, greasemonkey invokes TTG before their page is finished, and I have not been able to get my wait-until-everything-is-loaded guessing logic to work reliably. I am removing meevee from the supported list. Sorry folks...

Archived Comments, replied by neko

neko — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:34:49 +0000

this seems to be completely broken. nothing at all happens to meevee and there's nothing in the about:config that has anything to do with this script.

Archived Comments, replied by alley

alley — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:55:21 +0000

I'm lost ...what the hell is this, and what exactly does this do?

Archived Comments, replied by Dink

Dink — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:38:08 +0000

if using MeeVee enter this code to block out "missed shows" section Where yiu see similar code...

mvDoc.removeNodes("//div[@class='missedShows']");//

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:53:51 +0000

zap2it.com has undergone a redesign. I am re-working that adapter and will announce an update soon. Thanks to Quincy Edwards for the heads-up.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:21:29 +0000

Because Tight TV Grid is a multi-site script, it's difficult for me to monitor how well it is working on *all* of the sites *all* of the time. Therefore I would like to recruit individuals who use a given site on a daily basis, and who would be willing to keep me informed about issues as they arise. You would also be in a good position to influence future development.

The sites that I currently need help with are: tvgiude.com, zap2it, aol.com. If you are interested in helping, please contact me directly at chris at refactoror net. I am willing to take on more than one advisor per site; when an issue arises I would include all participants into the email thread, so that anyone may weigh-in on the problem/solution.

thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:22:53 +0000

Glad you like the script. I'm not sure what problem your screenshot is meant to show me? Maybe you are referring to the vertical line? That's the current time marker (it moves in real-time). If you don't like it, you can set "showTimeMarker" to false. (See http://refactoror.net/greasemonkey/TightTVGrid/...)

The reason that TVguide.com loads so slowly is that they actually send an incomplete page to the browser at first, and then load more stuff in the background. Therefore TTG has to "camp out" until the page is fully constructed before it can safely modify things.

Archived Comments, replied by MagnoliaSouth

MagnoliaSouth — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:22:29 +0000

Excellent script and does the job. Although I did notice it was a bit slow to load.

One problem I noticed was this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/MagnoliaS...

I tried reloading and restarting the browser, but I'm still getting it. Do you think the slow down is related to it? I've no idea myself, I'm not even close to a script writer or programmer.

Still though, I like what you've done and your careful attention to details with all your scripts.

Archived Comments, replied by Randy Harmelink

Randy Harmelink — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:47:29 +0000

Reinstalled the script and it appears to work now. Strange. I was disabling mine when using yours on Excite, so not sure what was happening.

An additional grid similar to Excite:

http://tv.myway.com/grid.jsp

Also:

http://www.titantv.com/ttv/Grid/grid.aspx

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:43:54 +0000

Hmm. Wonder what the problem can be. Are there any clues in the Error Console? Could you own excite script be interfering?

Archived Comments, replied by Randy Harmelink

Randy Harmelink — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:28:37 +0000

Hmmm. Not seeing the first run feature on the Excite grid with the new script...

Just as an FYI, this is what my processing on the Excite grid looks like:

http://fast.filespace.org/rharmelink/excite-tv-...

I also use a feature that allows me to order the channels in a custom order, and I use the time stamp row as a divider between them. But I do like having the ability to change the grid time on the screen. I did my processing on Excite, because I liked its starting presentation best.

By the way, have you seen "The Movie Dude" script for movie web sites? I have to take a closer look at it, because it has a great configuration screen option on it, so that you can customize how the script processes the web page.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:31:35 +0000

As of 2.5.3 the new highlighting scheme is: first-run programs highlighted in yellow, favorite titles bold. Enjoy!

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:21:02 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Randy. I have been thinking about exactly such a feature. But instead of just highlighting the word "New", it may be better to highlight the title itself. But that would require multiple highlighting "modes", since the favoriteTitles feature already does title highlighting, (bold in the case of excite). I would welcome suggestions on the best combination of highlighting styles for the various sites that TTG supports.

Archived Comments, replied by Randy Harmelink

Randy Harmelink — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:36:41 +0000

I did something similar to my usage of Excite TV last year. One feature I added to mine was to change all occurrences of "(New)" to be a spanned item with a yellow background color. It really makes the "new" shows stand out from the repeats...

Archived Comments, replied by Chris Noé

Chris Noé — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:38:02 +0000

tvguide.com is fixed

Archived Comments, replied by MartinElk

MartinElk — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:43:02 +0000

Tight TV grid WAS working on TV Guide, but stopped working within the last day or two.

Archived Comments, replied by Hunter Thomas

Hunter Thomas — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:20:49 +0000

Tight TV grid doesn't seem to work on TV Guide. Can somebody help? I just loaded the evil vista.