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how does this thing with the patches work? will they be merged into the main tree? especially the user picture stuff i find very intriguing.

anyway, my two cents:

- when save as xml (in my case for some RegExing), it gets exported with pictures as seperate files, but the location of the pictures ist still known. now, if i save it as amc again, the link to the pictures is lost. would be nice to have the choice there wether to import them or keep them as linked pictures

- multiple title scripts: it would be nice to have the ability to have a script work on a list of titles rather than just one.

- a major concept thing is this: it would be nice to be able to have multiple media for one movie. not strictly necessary though, only happens every now and then.

- why is JAPANESE not in the default list of languages?

apart from these things, i find it a very nice and useful piece of software. thanks.

- there is no DOP field. which is, well, probably a very bad thing really. mine are always whinig because they never get any attention and are always thought of last. although, really _they_ are the ones that actually produce what we see, so, more kudos to them: let them have their own field!

squee wrote:how does this thing with the patches work? will they be merged into the main tree? especially the user picture stuff i find very intriguing.

I do not know yet, but when AMC will support multiple pictures I may add support for re-importing catalogs made by the patched version.
And even if the official version does not support importing these patched catalogs, it is quite easy to write a small external program to make the conversion

squee wrote: - when save as xml (in my case for some RegExing), it gets exported with pictures as seperate files, but the location of the pictures ist still known. now, if i save it as amc again, the link to the pictures is lost. would be nice to have the choice there wether to import them or keep them as linked pictures

I have to add the possibility for storing pictures, but the link should not be "lost" : they should stay linked.
Until the functionnality is added to AMC, you can use the tool "Image import for Ant Movie Catalog" from http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/download
(the 220 KB one)

squee wrote: - multiple title scripts: it would be nice to have the ability to have a script work on a list of titles rather than just one.

Tools -> Scripting
In version 3.5 both scripting windows will be merged (currently it is the same window that has some differences depending if you call if from "Get info -> from script" or from "Tools -> scripting")

squee wrote: - a major concept thing is this: it would be nice to be able to have multiple media for one movie. not strictly necessary though, only happens every now and then.

Would be nice, yes, but some work has to be done to make this possible. I do not know when I will do it.
Same for multiple movies on same media.

squee wrote: - why is JAPANESE not in the default list of languages?

You mean the drop-down list in movie fields ? I think I only added in this list the langages I add a translation for. Since these lists are easy to customize from the Preferences window, I thought it was not a problem.

squee wrote:- there is no DOP field. which is, well, probably a very bad thing really. mine are always whinig because they never get any attention and are always thought of last. although, really _they_ are the ones that actually produce what we see, so, more kudos to them: let them have their own field!

What's DOP field ?

oh, i'm sorry. DOP is Director Of Photography or cameraperson.

squee

In version 4 (or maybe in a version 3.6) I will add some "important" new fields like this one. I have to find a way to make this useable on low-res screen even when adding lots of things.

one thing would be to make certain fields collapsable. like description and comments take up a lot of space. if those would have a little "+" / "-" thing? how does that sound?

That's a possibility.
The one that will probably change is the Actor field. And I may do in the same way a "Staff" button that will open other fields like Producer, Director, etc.

antp wrote:In version 4 (or maybe in a version 3.6) I will add some "important" new fields like this one. I have to find a way to make this useable on low-res screen even when adding lots of things.

What do you think about using tabs, ant? That is an easy solution to group similar fields together. I got the sugestion from a user here, where he pointed XMM as a source of inspiration. I will post some screens of an unfinished version of such interface tomorrow (I don't have Delphi 6 at home, only at work, and I still wasn't able to get it to compile with Delphi 8 ).

The tabs is something I did not like in XMM