What is the Exact Role of Checked/Unchecked? need you help!

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-02-19 17:05:15

Hi there!

I have some questions to make:

- I didn't figure out yet the exact role of "Checked" and "Unchecked" for the movies (I want to use is as a printed/not indicator, is this a good idea?)

- can the Checked/Unchecked be Controlled from within a script? (I imported my movielist from Divx Manager but lost all seen/unseen info (which i used for printed/not), I was thinking of importing them somehow)

- could this info be later on used as a separate field? (in order to group by it or even export if a movie is checked or not)

Thanks in advance!

Post by **antp** » 2003-02-19 17:51:34

This strange thing has been added a little to quickly (in an old 2.x version I think) to be able to specify which movies are available and which are not. So the Export window has an option to only export checked (available) movies.
I did not keep this thing in the Print window, I do not know why actually...
In the future it will be replaced in the export window by a selection list like in the Print and Scripting windows.
I will also have to add the possibility to select only checked movies, so the old "export checked" option will still be possible. It is not possible to access it through the scripts, because it is not really considered as a field.
For an indicator to print or not the movies, you could use for example the media label field. Then you can can group by media label, and select only the movies that have a particular label before calling the print window.

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-02-19 18:32:49

I see, so the checked/unchecked is only used in the export funtion...

I thing I was not so clear before, I meant that I used the "seen/unseen checkbox" on Divx Manager as a personal reminder of witch movies I have allready printed and put in alphabetical order in my collection, and witch ones where still left out unordered

so I wondered if I could do the same with the "checked/unchecked" in Ant Movie Cat...

Now I think I'll go with your suggestion and use some other field (maybe the "media label" one)

I think that in order to do this I should

1)export my old list into .csv format and
2)import the .csv assigning each collumn to the correct field

am I right? I'll give it a try! ...

Post by **antp** » 2003-02-19 18:53:15

Why do you want to export/import

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-02-20 14:22:05

I want to import again my old movie list from divx Manager, in order to also import the seen/unseen info into some other field in ant movie catalog.
(this is not done by the original divxManager import)

I tried to do it by exporting my list into csv from MsAccess (this is the format of my old list), it exported ok, but when I tried to load it into ant movie manager the programm freezed !

I tried this in win98 I will try again in winxp or some other computer and tell you the results...

Post by **antp** » 2003-02-20 15:29:57

If the list is long it may take several seconds, but it should not freeze "forever".

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2003-02-28 09:09:32

yes, I figured that out using only 2 lines of csv text ...

I still did not manage to get it right, because MSAccess has a shitty export function and messes the fields up, even if you use a character not contained in the DB as delimiter

your DivxMNG import is much better

(hope you will develop an improved one when version 4 comes out, incuding some other fields)

I think the best way to go for me now, and not lose my extra usefull info is use both movie managers (DivxMng and AntMMng) at the same time until you release version 4 which will support custom fields (I also use a field "Notes" for usefull info that I don't wanna lose

)

so far I personalized my ant DB with some scripts (moving original-->translated title when the latter is empty, mass adding info to unused fields, etc.)

keep up the good work, and come up with a release soon !!!
(no presure there Antoine, just do a good job, as allways

)

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-02-28 09:11:42

btw, that was me in the previous rerly

Post by **antp** » 2003-02-28 09:37:49

Anonymous wrote: (I also use a field "Notes" for usefull info that I don't wanna lose )

It is a field that it is not imported ? which one is it in the access database ?

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-05 08:26:32

The "Notes" field is the "Commenti" in the Access database and it is not imported as there is not such a field in AntMovieCatalog.

How difficult would it be for you to make a dll that will also import this field to... say "Media Label" field of AntMovieCatalog?
if it's not that difficult, I would very much appreciate it...

also while you're at it, you could also take a look at this:
-import seen/not seen checkbox? (if Seen chackbox is checked set field "Media Type" to "Seen" if not to "not seen")

please do not give much attention to the following (it can be easily "corrected" by using a batch-"field change" script) but I'm just reporting it as a "bug"
-"Divx Manager dll import" currently imports "Original Title"->"Original Title" and "Title"->"Original Title"(if empty) OR else -->"Translated Tile" (shouldn't it go directly to Translated?)

Thanks for your interest, Antoine!

Post by **antp** » 2003-03-05 08:42:58

That's strange, it should have been imported in the Comments field... I will check that this evening.

I can add the seen / not seen in the comments

Media type and Media label are already used for other things I think.

When there is not Original title I set the title to Original instead of Translated because the first one seems more important, and when original = translated usually the translated field is left empty.

Post by **antp** » 2003-03-05 21:57:14

It is strange, it seems that in old versions both fields exist, and in the 1.0 version of Divx Manager only the Comments field is there, and not Commenti anymore.

here is a modified version of the DLL :
ftp://pub.antp.be/antp/temp/AMCExchange.zip

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-06 11:26:10

Antoine, thank you very much for your quick responce

That's strange, it should have been imported in the Comments field... I will check that this evening.

I can add the seen / not seen in the comments

I tried both the new dll with version 3.4.2 of AMC... and got the exact same results as with the old dll !
In fact I compared the amc files produced by those atempts and got a 1:1 byte match !
therefore, I presume that the append function you are using does not work...

Media type and Media label are already used for other things I think.

yes they are, just not by me

that is the reason why I proposed these fields, so I can get all the info into AMC now and just use a batch "move field" script later when you add custom fiels to ant!

When there is not Original title I set the title to Original instead of Translated because the first one seems more important, and when original = translated usually the translated field is left empty.

this is just a personal preference that I can easily change by using a script (already made that one and it's working).

It is strange, it seems that in old versions both fields exist, and in the 1.0 version of Divx Manager only the Comments field is there, and not Commenti anymore.

you are absolutelly right! Allesio, the maker of DivXManager, is Italian and had named the field "Commenti" but then from version 1.0 he did not just add fields as he used to, but changed the arrengement and field names in the DB, so the "Commenti" got renamed to "Notes" (or "Note"?)
Many other field names have also changed, but he has also changed the name so there is no problem with the current dll as it says it imports from "DivX Manager" and not from "Extreme Movie Manager"

In conclusion:
- Please adjust the dll to import "Commenti" into "Media Label" and "Seen" into "Media Type"

P.S. I can help you with the names of "Extreme Movie Manager" by corresponding them to the names of "DivX Manager" if you like to also build a dll for the newer versions and all you need are the names...

Ohh, and THANKS again

Post by **antp** » 2003-03-06 13:07:56

kolia wrote: In conclusion:
- Please adjust the dll to import "Commenti" into "Media Label" and "Seen" into "Media Type"

That's what I did with the DLL I posted here:
ftp://pub.antp.be/antp/temp/AMCExchange.zip
Commenti is imported in Comments field instead of original comments field, and it adds a Seen text in the Media Type field if Seen attribute is set.

kolia wrote: P.S. I can help you with the names of "Extreme Movie Manager" by corresponding them to the names of "DivX Manager" if you like to also build a dll for the newer versions and all you need are the names...

I tested the current version of the DLL with version 1.0 of EMM, has it changed since latest version ?

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-07 08:57:31

- Please adjust the dll to import "Commenti" into "Media Label" and "Seen" into "Media Type"
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That's what I did with the DLL I posted here:
ftp://pub.antp.be/antp/temp/AMCExchange.zip
Commenti is imported in Comments field instead of original comments field, and it adds a Seen text in the Media Type field if Seen attribute is set.

well, I see that you changed the dll, but it doesn't work

as I mentioned earlier the result of importing with the old dll is exactly the same as the result of importing with the new dll I got from the link above...
Commenti and Seen are not imported...

also, I do not want
Commenti to go into "Comments"
I just want everything imported as it was, plus
-Commenti into "Media Label", and
- Seen into "Media Type"

I'm sorry for beeing a pain in the ass...
could you please give it another try?

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-07 09:00:10

I tested the current version of the DLL with version 1.0 of EMM, has it changed since latest version ?

I'll look into it and reply later...

Post by **antp** » 2003-03-07 09:25:17

ok I'll change that, but it is quite strange, are you sure that you replaced the dll of AMC by the new one before importing ?

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-07 10:37:48

yes, I'm sure!
(I even changed the name of the old dll, zipped it, and rebooted just to be sure

)
(and of course I checked again the test database I'm importing for the fields I want to import...)

kolia · Post by **kolia** » 2003-03-07 10:51:47

and now I've tried it at a completely different computer with winXP (mine has win2k) just to verify that it's working as it was (same import as old dll, no new imports)

Post by **antp** » 2003-03-07 12:44:44

And the new DLL is another date / size ? (well, size is maybe the same)