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excogitation Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 02:04:09
First of all let me say, that I've tried all movie managers out there
(at least all that I could find), and because 90% are missing a
"search your harddisk for movies"-option your manager is the only
one I would use (so far).

There are however some issues I want to point out.
I don't want to lessen your work by it -
I just hope I will contribute in making this software even better.
  • First and most important to me this application is not optimized for high dpi settings
    - if you look at the example images you'll see that it's no eye-candy on a high-resolution monitor
    when using a different than standard dpi setting
    How to Write High-DPI Applications:
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms969894.aspx

  • Character encoding problem (e.g.Ĉon Flux becomes #198; in tree) I have update the new IMDB Scripts just now, should be fixed

  • There should be an option to rename a single movie
    (quick accessible through e.g. F2 (standard windows behaviour))
    because you don't have to reimport the movie if it gets renamed outside EMM

  • quick file scanning, autoscan import folders for new files

  • open multiple folders a time for import
    (e.g. if I have a drive Z and there's mainly movies on it
    but also some folders backup data that take forever to scan
    - then I have to import each folder that contains movies manually
    and after each one I have to wait for ages till it completes)

  • reconnect renamed movie to the db id (e.g. by usign a checksum

  • support of mysql as alternative instead of an Access db
    (I suppose this would improve performance a lot)

  • import personal rating from imdb

  • show movies I might also like (from IMDB), or people that liked
    the same movies (this could turn out to be a good way making some money
    if you linkted those movies to Amazon)

  • easy and advanced userinterface
    or edit/import and playback interface

  • actor sorting according to imdb (most wellknown left)
  • use curl instead of browser to retrieve data from the internet (if you don't already)

  • mini statistics don't get updated (loaned, etc) after deleting movie

  • moving movie to different genre by drag & drop
  • cool new icons for the menubar
    (forum contest? I really like the play panel)
    or making the program skinnable

  • one skin throughout the whole program
    (at the moment there are some parts blue and some standard windows theme (I like the blue skin)
  • prevent the program from crashing/hanging when trying to close Macig Script

  • Find missing files shows no results in 6.1.20

  • MagicScript sometimes goes to the taskbar and I can only get it back by right-click maximize
  • Should be fixed in 6.1.3
  • choose thumbnail size for thumbnail view

  • delete all actors not working (collection maintenance)

  • option to store movie db inside EMM dir (instead of my documents)
  • in tree view all movies get only selected with strg+a after the second time
  • Seen True False should be Yes No
  • When you click on an actor's image in actor view it gets
    opened in IE instead of the default browser


Since I'm using a 15,4" display with 1680*1050 pixels resolution I have to adjust the dpi (120%)
because otherwise the text size is just too small to work with.

It just seems that you've not optimized the program for users like me :-)

examples:
Startup window:

Download window:

Missing movies list:

Main window:

Image window:


Actor image opens in IE regardless off standard browser setting

Movie still gets displayed after deletion
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Alessio Viti Posted - 20 Feb 2008 : 13:17:24
Hi Guys,

I am working on the changes these next days. I will update the first topic with red comments.

Alessio
Alessio Viti Posted - 19 Feb 2008 : 17:35:31
Hi Guys,

I will try to check it tomorrow, please sorry for my delay!!

Alessio
mercurius00 Posted - 12 Feb 2008 : 01:05:38
Uffa!!! Me l'ha fatto di nuovo!!!

It happened again!|!!!!!!
mercurius00 Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 18:15:56
quote:
Originally posted by mercurius00

I'm using 1680*1050 too. I got some issues, i had one particularly relevant:

- When i open the Importing window, it goes only if full opened and not windowed: when i try to window it simply disappear and goes at icon.

Suggestions?




I solved the matter by restoring original configuration... But should be another way :)


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Italian translation:

Gentile Alessio, avevo questo problema: se metto a tutto schermo EMM mi succede che andando ad aprire la finestra d'importazione questa scompare se ridimensionata e funziona solo se messa a tutto schermo... Ho risolto in un secondo momento riportando tutto alla configurazione originale tramite l'apposita funzione. Ma che scocciatura!!

Per il resto tutto ok, in bocca al lupo e complimenti per il programma
mercurius00 Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 18:09:26
I'm using 1680*1050 too. I got some issues, i had one particularly relevant:

- When i open the Importing window, it goes only if full opened and not windowed: when i try to window it simply disappear and goes at icon.

Suggestions?
excogitation Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 23:01:18
You're very welcome.

If you ever need a tester for high DPI or if I can contribute
in any other way, feel free to contact me.

Alessio Viti Posted - 30 Jan 2008 : 17:40:16
Thank you very much for this detailed report and suggestions!!!

I will try to do everything as soon as possible.

Thank you again,

Alessio

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