2015-10-22, 09:09
(2015-10-22, 07:30)mikesilvo164 Wrote:(2015-10-22, 06:14)smw6230 Wrote: One final question about a recently discovered skin oddity that perhaps you can explain, if you know about it.I notice sometimes the movie plot (popup) won't show the complete plot for items that I have added. Say IMDB's plot for Movie X is a tad weak or doesn't exist at all. I may go to Rotten, find one online, or just use the Wiki synopsis. In those instances I'll paste the plot via the edit button, or in the movie nfo file.
Here's what's weird.
The full plot shows up in the skin itself but whenever I double click on the plot, to get the plot popup, what I'll get is "The Movie begins with Adnan ". That's it. It seems to break at that point. What I have been able to figure out is commas (,) from pasted text seems to break the plot popup. If you remove the commas, then you get the full plot but; for ex "The Movie begins with Adnan Harry and Dave entering a bank".
Its just weird. Hopefully I explained it well enough for you to understand. Perhaps, and I'll start making note of how I enter edited plots (via edit or NFO), pasting them in via the edit button triggers that comma bug. Its probably something like that but honestly I just kinda realized it was the commas causing the plot breaks about an hour ago. Not that I know that I'll make note of how I'm entering them to see which method is causing the break.
Try latest Git to see if it is fixed... I noticed some odd inconsistencies with the text viewer popup... I have tried escaping with '" "' and ESCINFO but neither seem to work for all use cases
Seems to work better, but the behavior is inconsistent. From a quick perusal, some of the ones that had display problems shows up with the full plot. OTOH, some, which may not (didn't note) have had display problems now don't show up at all.
/shrug
You seem to be a perfectionist so I bet this bugs you. I'd just point out that its cosmetic thing that's really not of fundamental importance to the skin. Sure its a nice (cosmetic) feature, but the plot shows up fine in the plot window. That should be good enough for 99.9% of the users. So what I'm saying is no need to devote too much energy to this issue.
I suspect it had something to do with how XBMC/Kodi formats punctuation and other like stuff. I say that because, as I'm sure you know, when I look at a movie's plot in the nfo file a word like "society's" show up in the NFO as society's
Again, you've done such a tremendous job with nuts and bolts of this skins that something like this is of minor importance.