SyncList.bas example by Erich Schulman

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

At: http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=38377

Nice example Erich. It would be more effective if you included a zipped "channels.tsv" for the example though. (as seen in the image).

Where do you get the data? I wouild like to play around with something like this myself. We have a TIVO interface for our tv's, and as wonderful as it (when compared to all competitors - cable, satellite, boxes), it would be cool to design my own search interface/lists for shows if I could download weekly data for Cablevision somewhere.

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[Erich Schulman]

I simply went to comcast.com and brought up my channel list by ZIP code. It's easier to work with the printable version than the webview version. Then I did a copy and paste into Notepad++ where I removed channels I don't pay for and inserted tabs. (If given a choice, I would use TSV over CSV.) No SOAP, AJAX, etc. The channel lineup doesn't change that often.

The format is simply
number<tab>name
on each line.

My intention was to add just a few lines to the official PB sample. Many improvements are possible, so it is good to see some interest in it.

I am actually new to DDT (not so with PBCC and PBDOS), so -- perhaps drawing from other official samples -- it can make a nice project for others new to PBWin. Building it up could also be the basis for a DDT tutorial.

Some possible improvements:
Jump to a channel number
Search by name or part of a name
Add a field for local, news, sports, movies, etc. and filter view by type
Colo(u)r code channel names by their type
XPRINT your lineup in a nice format
Antenna and cable/satellite views
TV and radio views
Edit the TSV within the application rather than in a text editor