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Hmm.. I haven't been able to reproduce this problem on my computer, although I should fix the script so it traps zero result searches and gives you a "no results found" message rather than a blank pick tree. On the searches I've tried, it doesn't matter whether there's already information there or not.

Could you tell me -
-what exactly do you mean 'craps out'? (what error message do you get, at what point it fails, etc)
- what do you have in the search box on these failed movies?
- have you tried it with different program options or with some of the save to fields disabled?

BTW to clean up foreign characters, I added the UTF8Decode function to several places in my program. The updated version is now at the link above.

donnah wrote: The updated version is now at the link above.

Be careful, you "lost" the header (script info & options list)
I uploaded on my server the corrected version

Thanks

antp wrote:

donnah wrote: The updated version is now at the link above.

Be careful, you "lost" the header (script info & options list)
I uploaded on my server the corrected version

Thanks for catching that. Sorry.

Hello
its seems to be, "Production Credits" and "Producer" field doesnt working.
So many thanks you fixed the script

I downloaded the script and it works well, however the old one (when it worked) had a nice feature (discussed a bit on the forum) - a complete cast. Especially interesting for me were music composers. Any chance we could add this feature?
Witold

As far as production credits, there was a bug in my script in which on some pages the synopsis was repeated instead of the credits list. I believe I have fixed this in the script here:

http://www.box.net/shared/nlqsrr57tf

I also changed it so blank parentheses don't appear in the picktree if there is no year available.

As far as producer, AMG does not now list the producer on the first page, only the production company. The producer name (person) is on the production credits page, but the title is not always consistent. Sometimes he/she is listed as 'executive producer,' sometimes 'co-producer', etc. There are sometimes multiple producers, sometimes with different titles. That's why I put the production company in the producer field and left the producer's name to the production credits list. Trying to write a script which anticipates all the possible permutations is too difficult.

As far as 'complete cast' - as far as I know, my script adds all of the names available on the AMC site into the cast field. Sometime the list is quite long. If anyone knows of an example where there are cast members listed on the AMG site but NOT grabbed by my script, send me the example and I'll try to fix it. (Give me the movie name + AMG url for the movie)

One more thing: the music composers on the AMG site is now listed under production credits, so my script adds them along with the other production credits

donnah wrote:One more thing: the music composers on the AMG site is now listed under production credits, so my script adds them along with the other production credits

Donnah,

I think we owe you a big one. You saved the best reference source for us, movie maniacs. Your script works very well, it just places the data in different windows of ant catalogue than the previous one.

As being a proficient programmer, perhaps you could lend a helpful hand (brain rather). Is there any chance to change labels of the windows within the catalogue itself (I use the "Media Label" for score composers and "Borrower" for the lead actor)? And second question: the only reason I keep my last Windows-based server is the fact that some of the applications I use (AMC in the first place) are not ported yet to Mac OS. I have read somewhere that we have an access to source code, but I did not check what language was used to write it. Perhaps, if it is in Java, it could be ported to Mac OS by someone less rusted than me?
Witold [/i]

A lot of the data is placed in fields based on your selection in the script options (see the top right of the script window). For example, the synopsis can be placed in either the comments or descriptions field, or not imported at all, depending on whether the synopsis option is 0, 1 or 2. So if you don't like where it puts your info, check to see if there's already an option to change it. If you don't see it, let me know and if it makes sense I'll add the option.

I am not a programmer by anyone's definition and couldn't even begin to answer your questions. I know there's a whole other section of the forum to discuss mods to the program itself - you should check there or with the author of the program.

wsuryn wrote:Is there any chance to change labels of the windows within the catalogue itself (I use the "Media Label" for score composers and "Borrower" for the lead actor)?

You can do that on the language file. Make a copy of the language file you use (*.lng) and edit it with any plain text editor (e.g. notepad). You find the field captions scrolling down to the "Frames" section. Media label is "LMedia.Caption=Media Label:" and borrower is "LBorrower.Caption=Borrower:"

I have read somewhere that we have an access to source code, but I did not check what language was used to write it. Perhaps, if it is in Java, it could be ported to Mac OS by someone less rusted than me?

AMC is written in Delphi and cannot be ported to Mac easily. Read viewtopic.php?t=4278 for more information.

Donnah, Bad4u,
Thank you both
Witold