[req] Script to copy movie info from another database (amc)

[LA]

please write a script, which will search a movie within another amc database (should be chosen) and then will extract info from this database to current...

or please let me know the format of amc database.

thanks

[antp]

It is not possible to make that by script.
It could maybe be done with a .xml database rather a .amc database.

The format of the .amc files is described in the help file.

What do you want to do exactly ? If you want to merge two database you can simply use the Import window.

[LA]

why it is not possible? if we can read files and we know the format of the file, seems that we can do it.

I want to copy info on one/two/three movie(s) from one database to another.. not to merge databases!

[antp]

I do not think that the script engine can handle binary files, but actually I never tried. One of the problem is that you'll have to read strings from the file like if it was a simple memory area, for that you need to force the length of the string and then have a pointer to its first character. And these two things cannot be done with the script engine. But maybe it can be done in another way.

[LA]

I have asked the same question to developers of Pascal Script. And the ff answer was received:

You can use the streams part of the classes import library to read from a file.

Do you know what does it mean? I need just a idea, how to read binary files...

[antp]

That does not solve the other problem, i.e. the access to string memory. Maybe that in IFPS3 more things are possible, but AMC still uses IFPS2.

[LA]

but I have written small script, which allow to copy info from another database in xml format (the script will be sent via e-mail).

Could you please let me know how I should verify if some property exists (or doesn't exist)?
for ex., if I have the ff code:

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SetField(fieldSize,CurItem.GetItemNamed('Size').Value);

but this item doesn't include item named 'size'. I am getting the error. How it can be avoided?

[antp]

if CurItem.GetItemNamed('Size') <> nil then
...

(I think)

[LA]

yes, it works. thank a lot.

but how I should add picture into catalog, if I now the path to the picture?

[LA]

sorry, corrected previous msg:

yes, it works. thanks a lot.

but how I should add a picture into catalog, if I know the path to the picture?

[antp]

It is not possible to do that unfortunately.
The GetPicture function can only import picture from http URL.
I really have to add functions to manage pictures.