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<blockquote data-quote="OrionHall" data-source="post: 295093" data-attributes="member: 56502">Thanks Jamie <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />You have got slightly the wrong end of the stick though...&nbsp; Your pseudo code looks find, and exactly how it could work.&nbsp; The problem with doing this in Ant was two-fold though - GUI and code.&nbsp; In the code, the systems for updating file-based data (media information) was always completely separate from the Internet lookup code.&nbsp; Additionally, the Internet lookup code doesn't expose individual properties which can easily be referenced.&nbsp; Due to the complexity of performing the lookup in the first place, it runs once, when needed, and grabs all possible data for the given file.&nbsp; So the quick and dirty way of implementing these changes would have meant that potentially popping up twice trying to determine the correct movie for the lookup.&nbsp; The GUI issue is down to keeping it intuitive, as well as maintaining compatibility and trying to be 'everything to everyone'.&nbsp; In a nutshell, we have various options for what fields to import, and handy buttons to select 'all media' or 'all internet' - and as Original Title can now be both it's not very logical.&nbsp; Not everyone uses the Internet lookup function, so it has to remain optional.For original title I've added a drop-down box with four options - 'File Name', 'Folder Name', 'File Name + Internet Lookup' and 'Folder name + Internet Lookup'.&nbsp; This should cater for everyone I think!I spent a fair bit of time on this yesterday and it's getting there.&nbsp; Like I said - it requires some significant internal changes, plus I'm having to use datagrids for the lists of 'filter strings' and I haven't done those in winforms apps before, and it's pretty different to the ASP.Net one.I should have a beta version ready for testing in the next day or so - I'll let you know.Cheers,Orion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OrionHall, post: 295093, member: 56502"] Thanks Jamie :D You have got slightly the wrong end of the stick though... Your pseudo code looks find, and exactly how it could work. The problem with doing this in Ant was two-fold though - GUI and code. In the code, the systems for updating file-based data (media information) was always completely separate from the Internet lookup code. Additionally, the Internet lookup code doesn't expose individual properties which can easily be referenced. Due to the complexity of performing the lookup in the first place, it runs once, when needed, and grabs all possible data for the given file. So the quick and dirty way of implementing these changes would have meant that potentially popping up twice trying to determine the correct movie for the lookup. The GUI issue is down to keeping it intuitive, as well as maintaining compatibility and trying to be 'everything to everyone'. In a nutshell, we have various options for what fields to import, and handy buttons to select 'all media' or 'all internet' - and as Original Title can now be both it's not very logical. Not everyone uses the Internet lookup function, so it has to remain optional. For original title I've added a drop-down box with four options - 'File Name', 'Folder Name', 'File Name + Internet Lookup' and 'Folder name + Internet Lookup'. This should cater for everyone I think! I spent a fair bit of time on this yesterday and it's getting there. Like I said - it requires some significant internal changes, plus I'm having to use datagrids for the lists of 'filter strings' and I haven't done those in winforms apps before, and it's pretty different to the ASP.Net one. I should have a beta version ready for testing in the next day or so - I'll let you know. Cheers, Orion. [/QUOTE]

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