Uli


I've decided you deserve two medals:

a small one for developing the app using EWB

and a great big one for managing to work with TMDB

<RANT ON>
Their API documentation is the worst of any of the sites I've looked at. The data may be great but since I can't access it  its not a lot of use. I don't know if its old age or stupidity but I can find no explanation or example of how to use the api. I did find a couple of YouTube videos but they're for older versions of it.

I especially like the apiary stuff - click on GET so I click on GET for search/movie and it brings up search/list. Then there is that  /3/ .

I think the whole site is just a deliberate attempt to drive me more insane.
<RANT OFF>

Roy Lambert

Roy,

thanks for the medals.

It's a while ago that I studied the API documentation of TMDb, but I
cannot remember big difficulties.
If you need support, I can send you the URL's I collected.

Samples:

Search for "Titanic":
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=xxxxxx&language=en&query=Titanic

Request details for ID 597 (="Titanic"):
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/597?api_key=xxxxxxlanguage=en&append_to_response=trailers

Request a poster with a width of 342:
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vv9C39DVHA7ItTov4sl92AJsLud.jpg

etc.

I defined constans with tokens for the base url, queries, images etc.
and just combine them with the API-key and Movie-IDs or search-strings.

Uli

On 5/22/2015 2:58 PM, Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> Check out this cool Elevate Web Builder 2 application written by Uli
> Becker:
>
> http://www.elevatesoft.com/blog?action=view&id=check_out_this_elevate_web_builder_2_application_!

Nicely done Uli !  And a good showcase app for EWB.

Raul

>>Uli Becker wrote:

Mark,

<<Did you write any custom controls or was it just a matter of doing your own styling?>>

I created only one control, a transparent button. The rest was done by modifying the used interfaces.

Uli <<

It's very nicely styled.  Perhaps you can give me some lessons

Uli


Thanks for those - they certainly help. I also found the root cause of my problem. When I registered for an API key it displayed one which I copied into my KnowledgeBase app, since pasting it into your example didn't work I ferreted about on the site and eventually found that what I'd copied wasn't the API key I've been assigned. Weird but such is life

Roy Lambert

Mark,

> It's very nicely styled.  Perhaps you can give me some lessons

Thanks.

Generally I chose a "base" color (the dark blue) which I tested on
different devices, also on Android. (Amazing, how different it looks on
some devices.) Since it's a dark color, I needed two contrasting colors
for the fonts (clWhite and clBisque).

All other colors are just variations of the dark blue color and/or its
transparency.
Having chosen the colors for an application, it's quite easy to modify
the interfaces using just these colors and changing some sizes and graphics.

As for the icons I recommend this site:
http://www.iconsdb.com/

You can choose from a big selection of icons and assign exactly the
color you wish.

Uli