[Kar98]

Fandango Support Response: Ticket 10280593

Me: Hi Fandango, your movie widget in OSX dashboard doesn't list any theaters for my ZIP code.

Them:
<quote>
We suggest that you make your comments known to the management at the theatre. They have the authority to address and resolve most issues such as listing their showtimes on Fandango.
</quote>

Me: What's that now? Web 2.5? Now the users are not only supposed to provide the content themselves, but also to do cold call acquisition? I think not. I'll just delete your widget instead and get my theater info from yahoo, how's that?

Sherlock on the other hand did give information for theaters in a 50 miles or so radius, complete with listings, synopsis, trailer.

[MartiNZ]

Their widget doesn't list anything at all for my country, and I don't fancy my chances even with their suggested approach. That is very forward thinking though .

[Kar98]

Widgets are located in Library, Widgets, from which offending ones like the movies widget can be removed without any harm. Which I did.

[gradient]

Same story here: nice widget but the theatre listings are useless. In the Greater Vancouver area, it lists theatres out in the suburbs, but none of the theatres in the downtown core. Nice.

[peeb]

So now Sherlock is dead, what are we supposed to use? I have still yet to find a widget that duplicates Sherlock.

[eggman]

I encountered a weird behavior with this widget. I requested the list of movies that would be available Friday night - it had been reporting today's local movies just fine - and it "reversed itself", showing its flip side - indicating "No movie data available".

All you can set on that flip side is the Zip Code... which is accurate for me... and which works when the date is today. But if I hit "Done", it flips back to the other side, tries to acquire data for Friday again, fails again, and flips things over again without allowing you the opportunity to reset the date... like setting it back to "today", for example.

Unless I feed it some arbitrary Zip Code for an area that it (hopefully) has listings for on that date - which I can no longer alter - I have to close down the widget and open a new instance of it in order to view today's local listings again.

That's pretty user-unfriendly, and not at all robust design.

[k2director]

I dislike this widget already, which is too bad because I really looked forward to it.

I plug in my zip code, but it shows me theaters for ALL of Los Angeles, not the ones closest to me first. DUMB!! So I have to sift through endless theaters I've never heard of to see what's playing at the megaplex only 3 blocks from my house. Why does Apple let stuff like this go out the door?

Also, Fandango doesn't sell tickets to most of the big theaters near me. Moviefone.com does, but not Fandango.

Apple should have found a better partner, or at least insisted on a better design for finding theaters.

[goldfilm]

Does anyone know how to come back to the poster view (smaller) once you're in the listings view (bigger)?

Thanks!

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by goldfilm 

Does anyone know how to come back to the poster view (smaller) once you're in the listings view (bigger)?

Thanks!

Just double-click the top black bar of the widget and it will go back down to poster view.

[pheonixash]

Originally Posted by goldfilm 

Does anyone know how to come back to the poster view (smaller) once you're in the listings view (bigger)?

Thanks!

Command+R

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by pheonixash 

Command+R

Wild.

[goldfilm]

Savage! thx

It reminds me the Command - Option + clicking on the weather widget: it cycles through all the options. Then Command+R brings it to the current one.