antp.be forum

Hey Antp,

I've been using your software for years now and am always impressed by it's continued support and features

A little thing I would like to see implemented is this:

Since I always scrape detailed categories/genre details from IMDb I like to use Find box to filter specific genres when picking something to watch. This works well, but it would be nice to be able to filter more than one value at a time.

An easy way to implement this would be to use basic modifier positive/negative function akin to google's.

E.g If I wanted to look for horror comedies rather for than being limited to searching for "horror" or "comedy" would use the filter term "horror+comedy" in the category. Or, if I wanted to pick out horrors without the laughs I could similarly use "horror -comedy" (you get the idea).

If it's not too difficult, I think it would be a great feature to implement.

Then how would you do a search containing a "-" or a "+" ?
Yes it is easy to modify, like the hundred of things I should add to the program
As the filter/search on multiple files is often requested, if I improve the search it should also take that in account, not just multiple values of a same field.

100 of things to add?! To be honest I think your program is great as-is, the scripting engine makes it very flexible for making the odd tweak here and there. Also, using a custom language file and some patience I have also managed to incorporate some new fields in place of the ones I don't need/use. If definitely has the over other movie catalog programs out here IMO.

Good point, regarding the +/1 issue.. I suppose you could get around that by using some kind of encapsulation? E.g Only treat "+(phrase" or "- (phrase)" as a modifier if it contained in [ ] brackets or something like that?

I've just checked out the Mods forum and see that AMCsearch already does this