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Exported File Names

Post by FroBobbo »

First off, I want to say what an excellent program this is. I have a question about Exporting. I have the option selected to use the Movie Title as the file name, however it always exports using lower case. Is there a way to preserve the case?

My problem is that I am using this on a linux Web Server. It programmatically links to the details pages based on the Movie Title, so I have to manually rename the files after export to restore the original case.

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Post by antp »

I do not remember what is done exactly, but it is indeed possible that I forced the names to lowercase.
Your question concerns the HTML export? Why not use the "tag" containing the name of the detail page rather than the title?
I was planning to add options to clean the export names (e.g. remove accents or at least spaces and other special characters) but I do not know when I will do that, as it is not so simple (accents depend on Windows locale settings for example).
There are already some characters replaced/removed so the title name does not always match the file name: " ? / etc. are forbidden in file names.
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Post by FroBobbo »

Yes, this is regarding the HTML Export, sorry I should have been more clear. I am doing Individual File Exports, but the only options I have are:

- Exported filename + Movie Number
- Catalog name + Movie Number
- Movie Title

I don't see the option you are referring to. I am using ver. 3.5.0, are there different options in the Beta perhaps?
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Post by antp »

Well, that "option" is actually one of the fields available for the "full" file export (i.e. the other page than "individual" in the export window), which can be used to make a list of the titles + link to individual pages.
But if you use something else to make the general list page, I suppose that it would not help you?
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Post by FroBobbo »

I thank you for your support. I have one last quick question and if you can't do it then I understand. I donwloaded the source, but I do not have Delphi to compile it. I have made the necessary change, is there any way you could just compile it for me with the update file.

If not, I completely understand. I simply removed the LowerCase functions from the export.pas file. It is available here:
http://www.cstoneweb.com/downloads/export.zip

Again, nice work on an excellent program
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Post by antp »

ok here is it:
www.antp.be/temp/priv/amc351_FroBobbo.zip
but I'd like to know why exactly you need that, as you have the title+filenames list using the "full" template page.
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Post by FroBobbo »

Thank you so much...And to answer your question, I am using wizd media server, with my I-O Data Network DVD Player. Not sure if you are familiar with wizd - http://wizd.sourceforge.net/.

It is basically just a website, with special instructions that the player understands. I am using your program to created the DVD Details page.
You can view the site here: http://69.244.143.131:8000 when you click on the movie name, the details page I export from your program is included in an IFRAME as <IFRAME src=<DVD NAME>.htm>

That is where i call the details page and wizd is case sensitive.
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Nice system ;)
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