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maf · Post by **maf** » 2003-09-21 01:07:44

Thank you for a wonderful program. I was in the making of writing my own Movie DB prog when I stumbled upon your creation. Now I don't have a reason to write it anymore.

I have a rather large collection of movies which I had temporarly catalogued in a comma-delimited text file with only the most important information. It was really easy to import using CSV and being able to select which column each delimited value should go to. Great feature!

I have some comments I would like to make.

1. A simple thing that I'm missing when importing data from imdb.com is being able to specify the actual URL for the movie in question instead of being forced to search each time.

2. When importing a bulk of movies with for example the IMDB script, the script assumes which movie to choose even though there are several choices. It imported the movie "Ripley's Game" instead of "Game, The" for example. When importing each movie by it self instead of a bulk of movies you get to choose if several choices.

3. Nr. 2 problem led me to import each movie by itself instead of in a bulk. When an import is complete you are left by the window with the information that was imported. The "OK" button in this window can't be pressed by using the ENTER-key, this is a big annoyance when you have to use the mouse to press it several 100's of times.

4. There are some things I would like to see as multiple choices, for instance Subtitles and Genre. I usually have more the one language as subtitle and most movies are more then one genre.

5. The rating of movies would be better off as floating point values in my opinion. Maybe even keep the number of votees, I much more trust a score when 90.000 people has voted versus 900 people.

6. I'd like to be able to resize certain multi-row windows. Comments comes to mind.

7. It would be nice to see more statistics, like which actor has starred in most of your own movies. How many movies of each rating you have etc.

8. A very good feature you have is that you can group the movie list. What I would like to see with the movie window is that you can resize (read: hide) the ID's.

I hope you like some of the suggestions and once again, it's a great program!

Post by **antp** » 2003-09-21 09:11:15

1. you can get that by editing the script. I did that for the "allocine" script

2. depends if you use the batch version or the normal version

3. Tab then Enter doesn't work ?

4. planned for later (much later)

5. I'll add an option to have a 0-100 rating instead of 0-10

6. what will use the free space then ?

7. yes

8. columns should be customizable

maf · Post by **maf** » 2003-09-21 13:36:46

Thanks for the quick reply.

Re: 1. Even though I am familiar to Delphi coding I could not find the URL parsing in the "Allocine" script. Could you point it out if it wouldn't be too much trouble.

Re: 2. Thanks, running normal solved that.

Re: 3. That works.

Re: 6. Hmm, descriptions could use the free space from comments and vice versa.

Re: 8. From where? When using gridmode (F7) I can resize the columns but that isn't shown in non-gridmode.

Some other things also.

9. Is it a bug or feature that you can't use Add, Delete, Get Info from Script etc in Gridmode?

10. When importing movie info from the web and then after that, importing info from .avi files, the duration of the movie are stacked from both sources. Is there any workaround?

11. I just realized that Director and Producer are saved but not Writer?

Post by **antp** » 2003-09-21 13:47:58

1.

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    if Input('Allociné.fr Import', 'Entrez le titre du film ou l''adresse de la page :', MovieName) then
    begin
      if Pos('.allocine.', MovieName) > 0 then
        AnalyzePage(MovieName)
      else
        AnalyzePage('http://www.allocine.fr/recherche/default.html?motcle='+UrlEncode(MovieName));
    end;

8. I mean that the columns shown in both normal and grid modes should be customizable (select which columns show, etc.). For the moment you can only move and resize columns, and only in grid mode.

9. For the delete it is probably a bug. For the two others it was to avoid bugs I think

10. Do not import it from one of the sources (edit script or remove option for file). The file adds the duraction because you may want to import from more than one file

11. There is no writer field, right