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Showtimes v0.5
A freeware movie showtime database
for the Palm Connected Organizer

For the latest version of this document, please visit the Showtimes website.

What's New

Changes from v0.4a to v0.5

  • Australia support fixes.
    • Patched to correctly handle movie titles with hyphens in them.

    • Saves movie rating, if available.

  • Fixed a "500 unexpected EOF before status line seen" error if there were trailing spaces on the URL lines in getdata.cfg.

Changes from v0.4 to v0.4a

  • Added Base64 module to getdata.exe, needed for some users.

  • Fixed dll loading bug in FlipReg2.exe when dlls were in path.

  • Fixed problem with Scoot parser when theater names have parentheses.

  • Added command-line option -v to FlipReg2.exe to make it print version info.

Changes from v0.3a to v0.4

  • Support for France.

  • Support for Australia.

  • Added getdata.exe Windows executable, Windows users do not need to install Perl.

  • Showtimes PalmOS application improved.
    • Day of week is shown along with date.
    • Location inside program is returned to when restarting program.
    • Date can be changed from movie/theater page.
    • UI improvements.
    • Long theater or movie names automatically scroll.
    • LeftHack support.
    • Memory requirements vastly reduced.

  • New FlipReg2 makes configuration easier.

  • Command line option to specify location of getdata.cfg, for easier scheduling.

  • Data files renamed to be 8.3 compliant.

Changes from v0.3 to v0.3a

  • Macintosh support improved.
    • Dates now appear correctly.
    • Garbage characters removed.

  • Get your data without perl.

  • Data files are now created with correct date.

  • More error reporting in script.

  • Script pauses on all errors.

  • Documentation improved.

Changes from v0.2 to v0.3

  • Support for the UK.
    • Download listings from Scoot.

  • Configuration method has changed.
    • Yahoo subdirectory and script renamed to more generic Script/getdata.pl.
    • Configuration moved out of yahoo.pl and into separate configuration file getdata.cfg.

  • Added theater killfile to hide unwanted theaters.

  • Database names have changed and are prefixed with ST_.

  • Dates are displayed in the format specified in prefs.

Changes from v0.1 to v0.2

  • Support for multiple URLs.
    • Showtimes for more than one area.
    • Showtimes for more than one date.

  • Multiple date support.
    • Current date automatically selected when entering program.

  • Find support.
    • Search for movie titles and theater names.

  • Easier navigation.
    • Swap button exchanges current theater with current movie.
    • Hardware up/down buttons scroll through movies/theaters.
    • Movie Title/Theater Name now a drop down box, to quickly switch to another movie/theater.

  • Theaters are now sorted by name.

  • Movie/Theater automatically selected when entering Theater/Movie form.

  • Current time display on Theater/Movie form.

  • Currently selected date shown on Theater/Movie form.

  • Scrollbar added to showtimes display, if necessary.

  • Duplicate showtime strings removed from database (smaller data files).

  • Proxy authentication added to perl script.

  • Perl script now pauses on errors.

J Robert Ray
showtimes@jrray.org

Submit bugs and suggestions

Wed Mar 13 04:38:14 PST 2002