New feature : User Defined Fields

[TekmanRO]

Hi. I think this would be a great addition to AMC, adding the possibility for the user to define his(her) own fields. I think this could be done very easily in new version 4, since I see you are going for a XML approach for the new file format. You could add a new node to the movie definition, such as:

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<movie>
  ....
  <userDefined>
     <field name="MyOwnField" type="text"> ...some value here... </field>
     <field name="MyOwnImage" type="image"> ...some value here... </field>
     <field name="HasMyGirlfriendSeenIt" type="boolean"> ... some value here ... </field>
  </userDefined>
</movie>

Well, you got the picture . I don't know if it's necessary to add a type to the fields, they could all be treatied as text, or string.

As for displaying them to the user, you could use a simple grid ( field | value), add editing capabilities to the second column (value), and that's it.

The fields (name & type) could be kept as some sort of "meta"s in the XML file, and thus they could be per-catalog, and not global. When an user adds a new field, the whole XML is parsed, and a new node for the field is added to each movie's <userDefined> node.

Scripting support for these user defined nodes could be added by a general function, such as SetField(fieldUserDefined, "myOwnField", Value);

Hmm... just an idea I've got... don't know really if it's as simple to implement as it sounds.

[antp]

I wanted to do that, but since it would be quite complicated to manager I'll put lots of fields and let the user select which one he wants, and customize them.
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