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hugetv
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help with selecting roGridScreen

I want to see how it would be possible to select without having to wait to load all the movies
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

help pliss
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TheEndless
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

If loading the movies is taking a long time, then your best bet is probably to make the web request asynchronously, so you're not blocking the UI during the request.
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

and how it would have this function

   
jsonAsString = CreateObject("roUrlTransfer")
jsonAsString.SetURL(URL()+"/movie.php?cat="+HttpEncode(category))
json = ParseJson(jsonAsString.GetToString())
return json.Videos
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

please help with this so we can select without having to wait to load the Seciones
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

please help want to select a movie without having to wait to load all content

my code GridScreen

Sub showMoviesScreen()
dlg = CreateObject("roOneLineDialog")
dlg.setTitle("Loading Collection")
dlg.showBusyAnimation()
dlg.show()
screen = CreateObject("roGridScreen")
port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
screen.SetMessagePort(port)
screen.SetGridStyle("flat-portrait")
screen.SetDescriptionVisible(true)
screen.SetBreadcrumbText("Movies", "Session")

categoryList = getCategoryListMovies()
categoryCount = categoryList.count()

seriesList = CreateObject("roList")

screen.SetupLists(categoryCount)
screen.ClearMessage()
screen.show()
screen.setListNames(categoryList)

for i = 0 to categoryCount-1
print "id = "; i; " categoria = "; categoryList[i]
contentList = getMoviesByCategory(categoryList[i])
seriesList[i] = contentList
screen.SetContentList(i,contentList)
screen.ClearMessage()
end for

screen.ClearMessage()
screen.show()

dlg.close()

clock = CreateObject("roTimespan")
next_call = clock.TotalMilliseconds() + 36000

while (true)
msg = wait(250, port)

if msg <> invalid and type(msg) = "roGridScreenEvent" then
if msg.isScreenClosed() then
exit while
else if msg.isStatusMessage()
mensaje = msg.getMessage()
status = msg.GetIndex()
else if msg.isPlaybackPosition()
nowpos = msg.GetIndex()
print "Tiempo conectado: "; nowpos
else if msg.isListItemFocused()
print "Focused msg: ";msg.GetMessage();"row: ";msg.GetIndex();
print " col: ";msg.GetData()
else if msg.isListItemSelected()
print "Selected msg: ";msg.GetMessage();"row: ";msg.GetIndex();
'selection = seriesList.GetEntry(msg.GetIndex())[msg.GetData()]
row = msg.GetIndex()
col = msg.GetData()

list = seriesList.GetEntry(msg.GetIndex())
if list <> invalid then
selection = list[msg.GetData()]
end if

if (row=0 and col=0) then
searchMovies()
else if (row=0 and col=1) then
FavoritesMovies()
else
'showSpringboardScreenMovies(list,selection)
showSpringboardScreenMovies(list,msg.GetData())
end if

else
print "Unexpected msg type: "; msg.GetType()
print "mensaje: "; msg.getMessage()
end if
end if

if clock.TotalMilliseconds() > next_call then
next_call = clock.TotalMilliseconds() + 36000
end if

end while

End Sub

Function getCategoryListMovies() as object

http = NewHTTP(ServidorRoku()+"/categorias.json")
http.AddParam("t", "peliculas")
response= http.GetToStringWithTimeout(90)
json = ParseJSON(response)
return json

End Function


Function getMoviesByCategory(category)

http = NewHTTP(ServidorRoku()+"/movie.json")
http.AddParam("cat", category)
response= http.GetToStringWithTimeout(90)
json = ParseJSON(response)
return json.Videos

End Function

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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

any suggestions to achieve the goal I'm looking to selecionar without having to wait for all content carge
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

who can help me
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TheEndless
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

To make the API requests asynchronously, you'll basically need to use ifUrlTransfer.AsyncGetToString(), then listen for roUrlEvents in your event loop. Once you get the result back, you can then set the contents for the grid screen row(s).

Alternatively, you could opt to work with SceneGraph instead, and utilize the Task node for retrieving your content.
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hugetv
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Re: help with selecting roGridScreen

"TheEndless" wrote:
To make the API requests asynchronously, you'll basically need to use ifUrlTransfer.AsyncGetToString(), then listen for roUrlEvents in your event loop. Once you get the result back, you can then set the contents for the grid screen row(s).

Alternatively, you could opt to work with SceneGraph instead, and utilize the Task node for retrieving your content.


I'm using what I indicas file with urlUtils.brs but since continuous loading
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