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Thanks to all who said thanks to me!
Please excuse my English if you vind myshtakes you kan ceep tham :-).
Since there were no cd covers and traycards which fit my needs I created them myself
. There is an English (I hope I translated everything) and German version. I used the scripting engine of free report a little bit to include some automating features.Use it if you want to but I have to warn you: you have to install a font file (24 KB; for the title on the traycard; copy it into your c:\WINDOWS\Fonts dir to install) to use it properly. I think this problem will still hinder Antoine from including it into a future release of MCatalog.
Changes 2.1
- Just a little fix. If there was no media label available in v2 the divider between category and title was missing (on the right margin of the traycard).
- I added a script to the german version which changes an actors list from:
nameofactor1 (as nameofcharacter1), nameofactor2 (as nameofcharacter2), ...
to:
nameofactor1 (als nameofcharacter1)
nameofactor2 (als nameofcharacter2)
to be more suitable for the layout of the traycard. Please read the 'liesmich.txt' to find out more.
- I decreased the size of the template. Its size is now about 184 KB. The packed download with the font file and the script is about 49 KB. This couldn't happen without decreasing the resolution of the included images. But I think they still have a acceptable quality.
- As you can see in the screenshot I added the fields Director, Producer, Year and Country onto the traycard. There is also now the media label present on the border of the traycard.
- I adjusted some objects on the traycard to be centered on the traycard (they were about 1 or 2 pixels to the right or left).
- I fixed the Visible-Property problem. I found out that it has to be Visible := '0' to make something invisible (not Visible := 0). Thus I don't have to use the weird methods I suggested before.
- I replaced the GER which indicated the German version to DE which is the official ISO 3166 two letter code . (Not for German but for Germany but I think I don't make other German speaking countries angry because of that
)
Screenshot
The number in the middle of the cover which is the rating of the movie and the decoration around it isn't displayed if you didn't rate your movie (rating field is empty).
If a translated title is available it is displayed as the title else the original title is displayed.
|Traycard|
Screenshot
All the titles on the traycard are handled like the one on the cover except for the small one above the actors listing. This one is either empty or (if a translated title was entered) the original title.
The bar above the Video Format field shows the rating of the movie. Its size depends on the rating (10 maximum length, 0 no length). If no rating is available the bar disappears.
The director, producer, year, country, video and audio format and bitrate, the movie length, category, language and media label fields again aren't displayed if no values were entered. If the field above the producer info (which is the Director field) is empty the info about the producer is placed at its coordinates. The same goes for the year and country info.
Comments to the screenshots
I modified them a little bit to be more similar to the results of my printer because the preview isn't very reliable. On my printer the background of the traycard (titles in different sizes) is brighter than on the screenshot so the summary is better to read. Some fields in the preview don't look very well centered or 'misadjusted' but printed it should look fine. However I couldn't test it on other printers so you have to see what you can make of it. What you don't see on the screenshots or in the preview is that FreeReport treats spaces a little bit weird. It seems to enlarge them randomly although the text alignment isn't set to Width align.
If you discover the same or other problems please tell me (post or fakenigga@gmx.net).
Comments to scripting
FreeReport has some problems handling the Top-Property. It subtracts about 10 of the value you entered in the script.
If there are any problems or comments (or inspirations
) let me know; post in the forum or e-mail me fakenigga@gmx.net.fake|nigga
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