On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Hello List:
Some months ago, I was inspired by all the mashup/API stuff
happening on the
Web and came across a Google-powered RSS feed for movie listings
(built by
isnoop.net). It occurred to me that this type of thing could be
incorporated into a Rev app and I wound up putting together a
widget/gadget
of sorts that illustrates its use. You enter your ZIP code, hit
enter, and
the stack finds theaters in the area, from which you can view
current movies
and showtimes.
There is also Google Map link that links you to browser directions
for the
currently selected theater -- done by a less elegant scraping of
Google
HTML, but it seems to work (this is a bit of a cop out -- ideally this
feature should be incorporated using revBrowser, but that's a
project I'll
save for version 2...).
I think it would be great to see more of this kind of thing done in
the Rev
community to demonstrate the possibilities of Rev apps that use
current
technologies.
Anyway, I thought folks might find this fun and/or useful. The
stack was
built in Rev 2.8.1 and tested on OS X, Vista and XP (apologies to
international listmembers, the stack is set up to work only with US
ZIP
codes). All of the key code is in the card script.
To view the stack, execute the following in your message box:
go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/moviefinder.rev";
Thanks for another nice stack, Scott. I'm going to use this one on my
students to help them understand how they can access internet
resources in Rev in a much more seamless way than with a web browser.
It's a difficult cognitive leap to get people to start thinking
"outside the [desktop] box".
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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