ideas / suggestions

sdf · Post by **sdf** » 2004-12-30 21:35:39

hi, thanks for the great program.

my wishes / ideas:
- additional value / checkbox for "private"... there are movies i am ashamed of owning ;-) . then let me chose when exporting / printing if i want private movies too

- let the user decide if he wants to have all the fields available.. i for example don't want the "date added", audio/video format, resolution/framerate etc (i only catalogue dvds)

- would be great if i could mark different languages (ctrl+click) in the dropdown for language and subtitle (which would be then displayed as language1, language2, language3 in the field)

- is there a way to print a cover/sleeve for two movies? i.e. mark two movies, then print => movie1 information on one side, movie2 on the other and both names on the side of the box

regards, chris

Post by **antp** » 2004-12-30 23:04:04

Hi,

- There is already a checkbox that can be shown with Tools -> Preferences -> Movie list -> Checkboxes
- It is not so simple. I may add that in the future, but it is not easy to manage
- ctrl+click is not possible in Windows' combobox (drop-down lists). So I would have to make a new component that looks like a combobox but that works differently. I plan to add that later but I do not know yet how I will do that.
- It should be possible to arrange the report (using the designer) so there are two movies per page. If you put the side separately from the front & cover, you can "cheat" so the left part of the side is in front of the front cover and the right part of the side is in front of the back cover. I hope you understand what you mean

If it is not the case, I could try to make such template

sdf · Post by **sdf** » 2004-12-31 07:57:35

thanks for the quick reply!
- i know the checkbox ... but i thought i'd use the checkbox for more temporary things like exporting some selected movies etc.. a "private" checkbox would be there as an added filter...
- the "grey out selected fields" is a very-low-urgency-wish ... i can live without it
- i think i saw that once in a delphi program, so the component should exist (but i don't know if it's free)
- i'll try the suggestion with the designer... let's see if i am too dumb for this ;-)

Post by **antp** » 2004-12-31 12:16:12

sdf wrote:but i thought i'd use the checkbox for more temporary things like exporting some selected movies etc..

In version 3.5 it will be possible to export selected movies so the checkboxes will not have to be used for that anymore

sdf wrote: - i think i saw that once in a delphi program, so the component should exist (but i don't know if it's free)

I found one (TComboBoxX) but it as some small problems :
- does not display over the field if the field is at the bottom of the screen, so it does not work for the last fields of the window.
- does not support XP themes
I'll have to try to rewrite something similar myself, it should not be so difficult actually.

Guest2001 · Post by **Guest2001** » 2005-01-09 10:33:28

I wonder is there any way to mark more than one movie and then use option "get information / from script", that would be so great if there is way to make that option works.

Post by **antp** » 2005-01-09 15:07:04

In version 3.5 beta it already works like that

In version 3.4.3 you have to use Tools -> Scripting for that