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Showtime Plugin Navi-X v1.0: Major Release Finally Out
The popular Showtime plugin created by facanferff has been majorly updated; and as such, it is highly recommended those using the last version update to this latest version. You can find out all the information about this application from the official release statement below.
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After the release of Showtime Plugin Navi-X 0.9, the plugin entered a long process of development to fix the problems, give a new look and make it feel fresh.
This update is a major release, it is the biggest update I ever released for a plugin for Showtime, and that being said is recommended that every user update to this new version.
Changelog
Originally posted by another user
General:
- Add: Allow user to disable History Tracking
- Add: Notifications for important things (such as reporting)
- Fix: User would be logout after forced reload
- Enhancement: Use notifications instead of messages that require user interaction
Playlists:
- Add: Set number of elements in X axis (see note 1)
- Add: Set number of elements in Y axis (see note 1)
- Add: Allow user to hide information bar (see note 1)
- Add: Store items in local Favorites playlist (see note 2)
- Add: Playlists with IMDB/TMDB type redirect to TMDB view
- Add: Support for subtitles in playlists
- Fix: Entries with no title would fail to load page in PS3 platform
- Fix: Titles with colors would be wrongly parsed
- Enhancement: Set view in playlists upon entrance to avoid "screen transformation"
Processors:
- Add: Report processors that don't work
- Add: Display current status of processing (including countdown timer)
- Add: Cache processors that have cacheable flag equal to 1
- Add: Nested if statements
- Fix: Subvariables in which the main class didn't exist would return error when trying to get it's result
Speed:
- Enhancement: Improve plugin startup response time
- Enhancement: Improve response time when browsing
TMDB:
- Add: TMDB View (see note 2)
- Add: Trailers
- Add: Similar Movies
- Add: Search in several networks for a movie
- Add: Get Full Cast of a movie
- Add: Get Full Crew of a movie
- Add: Get movies in which a person appeared in the cast
- Add: Use IMDB variable in PLX playlists to identify a movie
- Add: Use TMDB variable in PLX playlists to identify a movie
- Add: IMDB's Parents Guide
User Account:
- Add: Save playlists IDs for user in local store
- Enhancement: Use local History/Favorites playlist instead of online solution
- Fix: When adding an item to a playlist that contained that item already, it would add again the item making it twice -> Remove the old one and add the fresh one
- Fix: My Playlists
Note 1: These features are present in the Page Menu that can be accessed via Triangle (PS3) or F1 (PC).
Note 2: These features are present in the Item Menu that can be accessed via Square (PS3) or F3 (PC) after focusing the item to see the features relative to.
A quick look in the new views
As you might have seen in the changelog, this version features a new look for list view, it is possible due to a recent feature that lets plugins have their own view files (the way Showtime uses to show the GUI), it means this view is a custom view and not from Showtime's source code, it has been developed by myself using as model some mockups from opium2k and the guidance of andoma in terms of widgets available.
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Requirements
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Installation:
1. If you have one of the latest Showtime version (as required by the plugin) and installed previously the previous plugin it should be updated to the newest version once andoma updates the plugin repository with the new version.
2. Access the Plugin Central inside Showtime to install the plugin.
3. Put the zip archive available in the directory <path to showtime>/installedplugins/
Special thanks to (Alphabetically):
- Andreas Õman (also known as andoma), for creating and maintaining the best alternative to XBMC
- opium2k, for creating mockups of both Array and TMDB views that ended being improved to the current state of them
- Tyrant, for Beta Testing the plugin as the development happened and for giving ideas in what could be added/improved