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apd
Junior Member
Greece
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 Posted - 24 Feb 2009 : 19:21:15
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As promised, here's a first list of bugs. Some serious, some not so much. Take your pick.
GRID
Opening the Grid Manager to add or remove a column, results in resizing the columns automatically although I don't want them to.
When I use Select All (Ctrl+A) in the grid, the files are always deselected immediately the first time and I need to reselect.
When I change Multiple fields, the grid does not update correctly. In the MovieCard the details appear changed, but they do not show in the grid, unless I press Refresh.
SERIOUS: Other times, when I edit Multiple movies, the change is applied to only some of them. This is serious, because I have to double check if the command was executed correctly. It does not happen every time - it is unpredictable.
The key f5 is the standard winkey for Refresh - it should have this use in XMM (no Script 1 update). The same goes for F3 and Ctrl+F and all the standard Windows combinations.
In QuickEditView, pressing Tab to move around does not work serially; it takes us up and down. This must be fixed.
Also, when editing in QuickEditView the use of Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+tab work in non standard ways. For example, Ctrl+Tab should jump from Movie to Starring to Details, and Ctrl+Shift+tab backwards.
UPDATE SCRIPTS
The "Stop Import" button should stop the process at once. All I get is "Please wait until ALL procedures are finished". What's the use then?
Update with default script 3
When I select "Skip this Movie" or "Stop Import", the engine does not stop - it falls back to default script 2 and fills in the page accordingly.
SUGGESTION: When multiple cover files are imported (as in IMDB complete) the best resolution or highest size should be placed first.
Cover Manager:
When the window opens, the first file should be selected automatically.
Selecting more than one files should be possible (to delete together, not one by one).
When working in the Cover Manager, I should be able to proceed to the next movie without having to close the CV, then select another movie, open the CV and so on.
The folder for Covers must have a better structure. As it is, if I grab 3 frames for each movie and add 2 or 3 covers, I end up with a folder containing more than 2.000 files - this is unmanageable with Fastone or Irfan...
SERIOUS: When I delete a cover from the cover manager, the file is deleted from disk, but the filename (in Quick Edit View>Files>Cover) remains intact. This creates conflicts - cards with the same cover number.
Most of my cover files are saved as "ID No+Title". Lately, only the ID number is used. But if the dbase is renumbered to fill holes, the titles do not update (get renamed) and this potentially creates problems (updating covers conflict with ex-holes). It's not even practical to have Movie no 1501 with cover file 1530. The best tactic should be to use the title alone title.jpg]. Please note that I ended up having a few films associated with the same cover filename (Films A and B with cover 2111). Deleting the wrong cover in film A resulted in it being deleted in Film B too!)
SUGGESTION
The Dialog box "Search HD for Movies" should "remember" the previous options (last folder, number of frames to grab etc).
I guess these are enough for now. Everyone please comment and I'll get back with more...
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 17 Mar 2009 : 20:57:07
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Hi Alessio,
It seems you missed the previous post, so I'll just update it.
Cover Manager
When a cover is selected, the keyboard Del should work deleting it.
Pressing Enter should close Cover Manager.
Drag and drop of images should be allowed in Cover Manager.
Also: Drag and drop from one entry to another.
Find Duplicates should have options: [Exact] [Similar]
Examples: it should be able to relate [The Fall] with [Fall, The] and [Baby Doll] with [Babydoll]
It also needs an "exclude" function ("Do not show this film again"). If I have two entries with the same name and I want to keep them, it should remember that I allowed it.
Change Genre by dragging an entry to a different Group.
Copy contents of "Field X" to "Field Z" - it should work with any two fields.
Multiple Delete contents of "Field X" (for any field).
Decide Max Number of backups to keep. |
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 11:30:53
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Hey, everyone! Any comments on the above?
Alessio? |
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gerard
Starting Member
Portugal
34 Posts |
Posted - 19 Oct 2010 : 12:55:49
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Yes,I have a comment, but I am afraid I am sounding like a Jehova Witness on the duplicates issue :
There is no place in a Database for duplicates. As far as XMM is concerned :It is a good program, and I will tell anybody that it is.
But :No matter the name, directory, network address,drive name,computer system, folder, programmers mood.. etc. XMM should prohibit importing any movie from any disk, network, directory etc, which is already in the database. That is the very reason for the existance and usability of databases. World will stop if airlines, warehouses, taxman, inventories etc. allow dups in their databases. I believe that a database can be prohibited from loading dups, if the properties of the table in the database is ticked ´do not allow loading of duplicates´
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 21 Oct 2010 : 17:03:20
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Thank you for unearthing this post!
Alessio, so many suggestions, such a long wait; any chance we see some of them coming true?
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 26 Oct 2010 : 08:49:50
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I will not argue with your priorities, but from my point of view, a lot of effort is spent in features I never use.
For me 3 things are most important to be implemented:
1. Import from hard disk with filters, as in TV episodes. I have a common naming practice, "Director - Title - Year.ext" Right now I have to spend time in XMM to "clean" this string, so that only "Title" remains. You have the routine ready for TV eps, why not for films?
2. Ability to Save complex search filters
3. Faster user management of covers |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
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Posted - 26 Oct 2010 : 14:28:30
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To point 3...
ONLY FOR TEMPORARY USE!!!! NOT COMPLETELY TESTED!!!! ALWAYS KEEP A BACKUP OF YOUR DATABASE!!!!
http://mitglied.multimania.de/jkdommi/xmm/ CoverManager.rar
Asked connection has to be: Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB
Then select your database |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
Edited by - JDommi on 26 Oct 2010 17:41:03 |
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apd
Junior Member
Greece
378 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 08:00:43
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| Yes, something like that, but with the ability to multiple select covers in one entry etc... |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4638 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 09:05:41
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Multiselect is very hard to implement as no one of the ready made thumbview components (I know) does support this feature. But I'll keep on trying to find a solution for that...
Unfortunately my prog is written in delphi and XMM is in vb2008. So there is the problem to port it - as it should not be a replacement for the inbuilt CoverManager or a plugin.
But would be nice if you can test the routines if they work right or if you have other suggestions! |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
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Mawu
Senior Member
Germany
1025 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 10:03:26
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@JDommi
Thank you very much for the nice program. It's a pity that multiselect and drag&drop are hard to implement. Another feature request: add picture to clipboard, search filter for movie title.
Bye Byte and Happy Coding
Mawu |
www.schlemmerkino.de - Die Nr.1 für filmische Leckereien |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4638 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 10:49:35
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Yes, it's really a pity... The only way at this moment is by a popup menu like I already did to simulate the DnD.
At the moment I'm implementing same for pseudo-multiselect - but that way you have to add each pic one-by-one... not really "clean".
Maybe someone knows a better solution (like capturing mouse clicks while pressing CTRL / Shift).
Your requests should be easy to implement. I'll post it here when I'm ready with. |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4638 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 13:37:48
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New version is available.
Changes:
added: a filter to select the movie title (case sensitive!)
added: "Copy to clipboard" from popup menu
added: Add/Remove from multiselection list from popup menu
added: Add/Remove from multiselection list by holding CTRL and left mouse button
added: multiselection functionality for buttons containing the * (Remove Pic and the 3 Move to...)
known bugs: multiselection functionality for "Move to next click position" *EDIT* with empty multiselection is ok *EDIT2* multiselection removed from this function
*EDIT2* forgotten to remove a remarked line of code <- corrected |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
Edited by - JDommi on 27 Oct 2010 15:32:18 |
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Mawu
Senior Member
Germany
1025 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 17:51:32
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@JDommi
Wow. Where I can download the new version?
Just another feature request:
Printing function for the most common formats (Jewel Case Front/Back, DVD Amaray, Blu-ray case etc.)
Bye Byte and Happy Coding
Mawu |
www.schlemmerkino.de - Die Nr.1 für filmische Leckereien |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4638 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2010 : 18:56:33
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I have overwritten the old version on my site (too less space to keep all versions).
Well, a printing function... that could make problems, as I never have tried something like that. Last time was with my old Amiga "a few years ago" *lol*
But connecting to a .mdb was a thing, too, I firstly tried on the CleanScripts plugin. So why not givin' that a try!?!
What I need anyway: the size of all those cases. I only have an old coreldraw template for a jewelcase. |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
Edited by - JDommi on 27 Oct 2010 19:20:34 |
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gerard
Starting Member
Portugal
34 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2010 : 00:09:54
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late reply on dups :
Yes, movie files. even same name. XMM should be smart enough to check if all data going to download from e.g. IMDB is already in the database or not, and Yes different name same movie, the dreaded duplicator AKA (also known as), and yes same name different movie. Just do it Alesio, all other movie managers (at least the ones I checked)also don´t know how to handle duplicates. Duplicates are the nails of any Database´s coffin, deciding if it is an usefull database or not. Change properties of fields in table.. Dups not accepted. |
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Alessio Viti
Forum Admin
Italy
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Posted - 28 Oct 2010 : 05:28:09
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OK, I have understand now. You want that if I have 2 movie with the same name when I import the information from internet check if the movie is the same as the other already imported, and maybe warn the user...
I will think to that function.
Thank you,
Ale |
http://www.facebook.com/pages/eXtreme-Movie-Manager/47220214342?ref=mf
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gerard
Starting Member
Portugal
34 Posts |
Posted - 28 Oct 2010 : 23:11:29
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Dups :
Exactly, every new added movie should be checked automatically by xmm if it is already in the database. Even the name. Taxman can handle duplicate names like John Smith, but every one of them is different in their database. So we need to compare the new addition to a column in the database somewhere.(suggest IMDB ID (tt123456)) If there seem to be a duplicate, a warning could be issued. or better yet, XMM should refuse to load the movie. With this, the location of the movie is less important, and xmm would work flawless on a network and mounted network drives, especially if DCHP is not set to a fixed address.
example
(192.168.xxx.xxx\movies\10 dead men.avi
versus eg
120.144.yyy.yyy\dvds\10 dead men.avi)
In this case XMM, as it is now. would load a duplicate without any hesitation!
gerard |
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Naxho
Starting Member
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Posted - 29 Oct 2010 : 04:19:42
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Yes but you have another problem, the extended version, for example:
Watchmen
Watchmen Ultimate Cut
This movies shares de IMDB ID, how could it work with this? |
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JDommi
Administrator
Germany
4638 Posts |
Posted - 29 Oct 2010 : 08:26:20
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And what about having the same movie as vhs, as dvd and as blue-ray?
And what about 2d and 3d versions?
And what about movies that are really double? (DVD1 contains 2 movies and one of these exists as single dvd version)
And what about single disc and 2-disc versions?
List can surely be extended!
I always look in my database before adding new movies... |
In order to achieve what is possible, you have to try the impossible over and over again.
Hermann Hesse |
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