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Alan: thank you for your answers! Glad to see I am not the only one to get things running.

I will ask you again: putting the lot together in a zip-file would make experimenting a lot easier: your source-files, fundamentals-files and Indy for a certain compiler would have saved me a lot of time, almost to the point of giving up.

I have still 2 to go:
[Warning] IdGlobal.pas(1698): return value of function 'UTF8BytesToChar' might be undefined
[Error] uluagrabbers.pas (128): Unsatisfied forward or external declaration 'TLuaGrabbers.webWork'

I'l be working on it.

can i ask why you want ot compile it anyway? it is just curiosity or is there something you are trying to achieve?

After a couple of years spending my time at programming in assembly on microcontrollers (= work), I would like to pickup again programming in Delphi 7 (= home).

My tuner Reelbox Lite could use the Bleb EPG directly, but since changing to daylightsavings, all timestamps are one hour off time in Central European countrys (Holland, Germany etc.). Because I use a lot of searchtimers in the Reelbox, I need an correct EPG. Andrew (from Bleb) does not respond to my email, so I have to do something else.

I was thinking: using your program in its current form studying first. Than try to rewrite/edit some to get the same format of output what Bleb has, but with the right timestamps. If that succeeds, I have to find a way to upload that outputfile(s) to my website (have to make first). By editing the url's in a list on the reelbox to my (new) site, I would be able to use the searchtimers again.

Why not convert the Blebfiles? Some channels are not available on Bleb, while rt_uk has the ones that are interresting for me. I am surprised RT_UK has EPS 2 weeks ahead, but doubt the practical value after one week or more.

But first of all: I want it to compile well, so I know the source is good and look in the sourcefiles and with the help of the debugger, how it exaclty works. That takes a long time, I know. It looks a bit like reverse engineering with the advantage of having the source already! I have to know how things work before I change a bit.

It seems I did delete a block, wich is exactly the procedure 'TLuaGrabbers.webWork'.

Now in Runutils, there is a "uses shwmsg", wich is not in the source and not in the SVN-directory.

By changing shwmsg to "dialogs", this was compiling good.

have you tried changing the timezone in settings? if that still doesn't work what you want to do could easily be accomplished in a lua post processor script

The Reelbox itself makes direct contact with Bleb.org and reads in the files needed according to my channellist. The XEPG-plugin uses a different format. I have no sourcecode of this plugin and no Linux-system to compile with.

This has nothing to do with lua-scripts, because it is a stanalone plugin without need of an PC.

The local-time of the Reelbox is set right, EPG coming trough satellite is OK, everything throug Bleb.org is one hour off time.

BTW: I had made a good compile (only one warning), the exe-file is 15kb larger (could be because of newer units), but when I start the application, it crasches directly. Not even the main form gets displayed.

have you put all of the lua libraries into the compiled directory

Alan, I am sorry to say, but after all these surprises after each build, I had an exe-file wich crashed. All the way down I discovered too many units not available at buiding-time. Had to find out the names of that units, downloading, building(again surprises) and setting paths.

I have now to quit trying to use your source. It's too time-consuming.

At the moment, I am making a small console-application wich will download the RT_UK-files of my choice. Looking at the data-structure, it can't be that hard to make a conversion to compact xmltv-format. Compact because I am only interested in date, time, title and description. The Reelbox and I are used to this compact format.

Anyway, thanks for sharing the source and giving help in my struggling.