I hope someone can help me out here. I'm completely new to this but I catch on quickly and I'm trying to make a script for mastertoons.com but every time I try to parse links using folder parser I get "the magic number in Gzip header is incorrect"... I'm at a loss. Thanks!

So here's the file... I haven't been able to find a single website that lets me view its source with the script maker either.

Ok.. In any case, for the assistance, I appreciate it. There's also this website "anilinkz.com" that I'd like to script but accessing it doesn't work either. I get this error 'system.net.webexcpetion: the remote server returned an error: (403) forbidden'... Can you point me in the right direction?

@tremendoza wrote:


You'll need to trick that website into thinking your script is a normal browser by using the GetURLX() function. This function is aliased in the Script Maker as Post URL. See the attached project file.

@tremendoza wrote:


Your Master Toons won't play because the player does not automatically start. You will need to click the play button.

You need to watch all the videos in the Help menu of the Script Maker. If you watch all the videos you will have a much better understanding of how Scripts interact with PlayOn, and how PlayOn interacts with websites.

Jeromy,

Script Maker for Windows looks great! I've just installed it and started viewing the help videos (really helpful!) and experimenting with the design interface. One thing that threw me at first is how to make connections. I got the impression you should click and drag while actually you must click once at each end of the connection. Maybe this has already been mentioned earlier in this thread but there doesn't seem to be a search function on this forum.

EDIT: Sorry, the videos clearly say to click the plug then click the socket. My bad!

Last edited on April 29, 2012 at 05:37

@Jeromy can you give me an example of how I would go about using the "if/then" item in the script maker. I'd like to use it to switch to an alternate folder parser if the first one doesn't retrieve any data. Thanks.

@tremendoza wrote:


Sorry about the delay.

I would use a Video Parser to get a list of the players. See the attached script. You will need to add a simulate click object as well.

Jeromy,

I downloaded your "multiple players" project to study it as a learning experience. I added code to only resolve the first (topmost) player and to simulate the mouse click, and it worked. I see two issues however, which I hope you or someone can help me with:

1. On this player, and on all players I have programmed that require mouse clicks, the simulated click sometimes doesn't work (so I just get the player waiting to be clicked). I'm not saying I've had a site that NEVER worked. The problem is most likely to occur the first time I visit a site in a PlayOn session. Once that static web page gets cached, no amount of retries will get the mouse click to work unless I either load another site or restart the PlayOn server (thus clearing the cache, I assume). I suspect this is a timing issue and is worse on sites that are slow loading. So I wonder if inserting some delay, perhaps just before the simulated click, would help? If so, my next question is how? It doesn't look like a sleep function is part of lua code.

2. The Anime video from the first (topmost) player of the multiple-players site has its sub-titles cropped off the bottom. I don't know if that could be explained by the 30 pixel clip in GetPlayerViewingRectangle -- it seems like more than 30 pix but I need to try removing that. But that raises other questions in my mind, such as:

2a. In every example I've seen the get_BrowserSize() function is overridden to return 640x480. What determines what are the optimum numbers for this? And do they relate to the clipping described above?

2b. Would the zoom function be a good way to bring the clipped subtitles into view?

Thanks for your work and Script Maker -- I'm having a lot of fun.

EDIT: Removing the 30 pix clip at the bottom restored the subtitles. (But questions 2a and 2b still stand!)

Last edited on May 10, 2012 at 02:06