The Future of MyFilms? (3 Viewers)

[zebons]

Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Followed this discussion a while now - and I have to repeat myself: Please change ALL properties to distinctive ones, e.g. #MyFilms.Selected.Item etc.
Especially "selecteditem" is a kind of preserved property of MP exposing the actual value of a selected item in ALL screens of MP - independent of the plugin in use atm. Therefore I made that suggestion a long time ago (although this would mean that skinners will have to adapt there skin files, but this can be done in an instant)

.... and because skinfiles need adaption for new version anyway, it's a "good opportunity" ... and the changes in the skinfiles are very easy anyway

Done in corrected version (I'll send it soon) but it needs to correct all skins files.
Now all database fields are exported by the plugin for skinners with name : #myfilms.<ANT DB Column Name>

 

[z3us]

Zebons, this is a request I made some months ago for AMCu, perhaps it could be done now:

would it be possible to obtain the aspect ratio? It could be saved in the resolution field, with the format "AR (Resolution)" so we can sort by AR, sorting by resolution is useless for me.

Thanks

 

[zebons]

Re : Re: The Future of MyFilms?

Zebons, this is a request I made some months ago for AMCu, perhaps it could be done now:

would it be possible to obtain the aspect ratio? It could be saved in the resolution field, with the format "AR (Resolution)" so we can sort by AR, sorting by resolution is useless for me.

Thanks

Where can we get the AR for a movie ?

 

[zebons]

Re : The Future of MyFilms?

New beta version.
Some corrections made and a major change for skins : all DB fields are now exported (names '#myfilms.<ANT DB Column name>' ex #myfilms.translatedtitle).
The B3 skin has been adapted. others must be corrected to work with that version.

Guzzi : I corrected your pb when you enter in the plugin with a menu choice config (older movie informations were displayed).

langages are included for EN, DE, FR and ES , IT. Thanks to all for your help.

Thanks for your feedbacks.

Guzzi : as soon as you can send me skins modified, I'll add to the future package.

 

[z3us]

Re: Re : Re: The Future of MyFilms?

Zebons, this is a request I made some months ago for AMCu, perhaps it could be done now:

would it be possible to obtain the aspect ratio? It could be saved in the resolution field, with the format "AR (Resolution)" so we can sort by AR, sorting by resolution is useless for me.

Thanks

Where can we get the AR for a movie ?

Example: If the resoltion of a film is 720x304, then the Aspect Ratio would be 720/304 = 2,36. This could be great for using 16:9, 4:3,... logos.
An idea, it could be done offering 4 options in AMCu for the resolution field:
- Resolution
- Aspect Ratio
- Aspect Ratio (resoltion)
- Resolution (AR)

Thanks

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Re : The Future of MyFilms?

New beta version.
Some corrections made and a major change for skins : all DB fields are now exported (names '#myfilms.<ANT DB Column name>' ex #myfilms.translatedtitle).
The B3 skin has been adapted. others must be corrected to work with that version.

@Guzzi : I corrected your pb when you enter in the plugin with a menu choice config (older movie informations were displayed).

langages are included for EN, DE, FR and ES , IT. Thanks to all for your help.

Thanks for your feedbacks.

Guzzi : as soon as you can send me skins modified, I'll add to the future package.

Hi Zebons,

thanks for the update. I did some tests and following my results (and also summarizing some older stuff here to make it easier to follow up....):

Some corrections made and a major change for skins : all DB fields are now exported (names '#myfilms.<ANT DB Column name>' ex #myfilms.translatedtitle).

Thanks, this should make sure there will be no conflicts now and in the future .
@mattroby: Can you please check and confirm your problem is solved?

@Guzzi : I corrected your pb when you enter in the plugin with a menu choice config (older movie informations were displayed).

Hmmm, I tested that and still have the same behaviour. It's not such a big issue, because the old movieinfos and pictures are only displayed during the time when the dialog for choosing DB is displayed.
See my description below from older post:
[QUOTE:Guzzi]
When having the Plugin configured to choose a config during start, there is last infos shown. And here how to reproduce:
- Configure MyFilms to have 2 databases available and choose DB on start (no default set); configure DB to enter enter in a categorized view per default
- Enter category (e.g. a year, a country, a genre)
- select a movie
- Press green button to directly go to home screen (leaving the plugin)
- reenter the plugin
- Dialog to choose DB is now presented - and the last movieinfos, including the Cover

It's not such a big issue, because as soon as you choose the DB, the new (and correct) infos will be displayed, but maybe it can be solved if you first reset the exported data when entering that routine in the plugin? (Don't know if the infos are kept by intension to make "return" possible inside mediaportal....).
[/QUOTE]

3. "File"-Updates in Detailscreen:
So now the behaviour is like that: if "use win file dialog" is disabled, choosing this menu option just does "nothing" - which I find irritating for users. While this avoids the dialog (which is good) this option should in this case also hide that option from the user.
Better approach imho would be: Make it user configurable, as updateoptions 3 & 4 and let the user assign other more senseful properties. Can this be done manually via config file currently or is it ompletely hardcoded?

I see that now the option is no more visible in the GUI if fileexplorer is disabled, thanks.

8. New Options "always use script" and "automatically choose best matching":
You can now switch the value of those two options in the new Menu Options (as for the use of standard Windows File Dialog).

while being nice to be able to toggle that from GUI, using it for the user is not yet "intuitive". Most understandable solution would be to display the current state in the menu...

It's still difficult to understand what's happening, because there is neither a popup of what changed nor display in the menu of current state. I would suggest to make the change persistent and display the current config in the menu (e.g. "on", "off") - makes it much easier for new users.

4. "Prefilling" the keyboard dialog with current DB values:
Done If I forgot some field, tell it to me...

could you also "prefill" the dialog in the update section with "current db value" of selected movie?
e.g.
<entry name="AntUpdItem1">Category</entry>
<entry name="AntUpdText1">Genre</entry>
<entry name="AntUpdDflT1">
</entry>

I would suggest to "prefill" with DB-value and only use "AntUpdDfltx" when DB-value is empty (if I understood that value right...).

still as previous behaviour, this would be a very helpful option for remoteusers without keyboard - e.g. for just making minor corrections to genres or titlenames...

Issue with AMCupdater in the corresponding thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...0-now-available-46463/index25.html#post599604
Guzzi

I know, it's not directly related to myfilms plugin, but currently I use older AMCupdater for "fullscans (because of the reported issue) and newer version for updates from inside the MyFilms GUI ....


Also find attached updated german language file and a betaversion of the skin for BlackGlass.

Thanks again, Guzzi

 

[mattroby]

Re: AW: Re : The Future of MyFilms?

New beta version.
@mattroby: Can you please check and confirm your problem is solved?

Works. Its skinned to the Translated Title, which is just a skinning issue, but it doesn't appear to have a conflict.

Thanks

 

[Guzzi]

AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

while we are probably getting close to stable candidate I have another "big wish" I'd love to see included for the release :
Would it be possible for you to add an option in MesFilmsDetails to search for "related movietitles"?

The "usecase" is:
I have a movie and want to find other films where same persons are involved (find other movies for persons involved).

The approach to realize that should not be too difficult and could be as follows:

- Add an additional button in MesFilmsDetails “search related movies by persons” that does the following:
- Retrieve all actors, producers and directors from current movierecord (parsing) and put it in a temporary table (with “name and “function”)
- Show a popup to the user and present him the list of this table as “name” (“function”), e.g. “Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor)”, etc.
(don’t know if there is a limitation for number of lines in MePo?)
- Let the user choose the line (that is the person)
- Do a DB-count for the name in “actor”, “producer” and “director” and
- show a second popup to let the user choose if he wants to search for related movies in “actor”, “producer”, or “director” field (field should only be displayed, if count is >0, because otherwise no result would be found anyway).
- Let the user choose a line (that is the function)
- Now you have set internally “name” and “function” and:
- Call the MesFilms.XML with the searchfunction for “name” in “function” and show the filtered movielist “as usual” (this is already possible today via supplementary search function manually, so should be no problem!?)
- You would then be in a view like e.g. coming from "Selection: actor [*actor3*] resulting in "Selection: actor3" as known from the supplementary searches (StrSelect">ACTORS like '*actor3*') ...


This is what a user (like me ;-)) would do “manually” today – and would hopefully be not too much programming effort as far as I would assume (just the parsing of the record for the person names, a temporal table to store the names/functions, a DB-count and some logic to handover the “searchcall” to the main pluginpage – plus minimal changes to the skin).
This approach should mostly use techniques already available, especially the “filtered view” used by supplementary search, right?
It could also be used for other properties, e.g. genre, year, framerate, etc. with little modifications – while I think the persons is the most interesting for movie enthusiasts…

If this is something you would also love to see/use, I would very much appreciate it to be added, although I know this is some extra work to be done …

What do you think?

- Call the MesFilms.XML with the searchfunction for “name” in “function” and show the filtered movielist “as usual” (this is already possible today via supplementary search function manually

Just some more thoughts:
While it is more logical for the user to have this function in the MesFilmsDetails available, it could also be done in MesFilms main page, if this is easier for you - by extending the existing "search".
Today you have the two "hardcoded" searchfunctions (movies, actors) plus two supplementary searches (definable).
You could add there "Search related movies by persons" and add logic described above to get to the same result!? (Practically some logic to prefill a search with movie specific infos)

 

[zebons]

Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Hi Zebons,

while we are probably getting close to stable candidate I have another "big wish" I'd love to see included for the release :
Would it be possible for you to add an option in MesFilmsDetails to search for "related movietitles"?

The "usecase" is:
I have a movie and want to find other films where same persons are involved (find other movies for persons involved).

The approach to realize that should not be too difficult and could be as follows:

- Add an additional button in MesFilmsDetails “search related movies by persons” that does the following:
- Retrieve all actors, producers and directors from current movierecord (parsing) and put it in a temporary table (with “name and “function”)
- Show a popup to the user and present him the list of this table as “name” (“function”), e.g. “Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor)”, etc.
(don’t know if there is a limitation for number of lines in MePo?)
- Let the user choose the line (that is the person)
- Do a DB-count for the name in “actor”, “producer” and “director” and
- show a second popup to let the user choose if he wants to search for related movies in “actor”, “producer”, or “director” field (field should only be displayed, if count is >0, because otherwise no result would be found anyway).
- Let the user choose a line (that is the function)
- Now you have set internally “name” and “function” and:
- Call the MesFilms.XML with the searchfunction for “name” in “function” and show the filtered movielist “as usual” (this is already possible today via supplementary search function manually, so should be no problem!?)
- You would then be in a view like e.g. coming from "Selection: actor [*actor3*] resulting in "Selection: actor3" as known from the supplementary searches (StrSelect">ACTORS like '*actor3*') ...


This is what a user (like me ;-)) would do “manually” today – and would hopefully be not too much programming effort as far as I would assume (just the parsing of the record for the person names, a temporal table to store the names/functions, a DB-count and some logic to handover the “searchcall” to the main pluginpage – plus minimal changes to the skin).
This approach should mostly use techniques already available, especially the “filtered view” used by supplementary search, right?
It could also be used for other properties, e.g. genre, year, framerate, etc. with little modifications – while I think the persons is the most interesting for movie enthusiasts…

If this is something you would also love to see/use, I would very much appreciate it to be added, although I know this is some extra work to be done …

What do you think?

- Call the MesFilms.XML with the searchfunction for “name” in “function” and show the filtered movielist “as usual” (this is already possible today via supplementary search function manually

Just some more thoughts:
While it is more logical for the user to have this function in the MesFilmsDetails available, it could also be done in MesFilms main page, if this is easier for you - by extending the existing "search".
Today you have the two "hardcoded" searchfunctions (movies, actors) plus two supplementary searches (definable).
You could add there "Search related movies by persons" and add logic described above to get to the same result!? (Practically some logic to prefill a search with movie specific infos)

Done on main screen as asked (more easy than on detail screen as no skin enhancement necessary).
Some new language stream added (to be tranlated).
tell me if it looks like that you dreamed.

Package at new MPE format to be installed with MPE Installer. Tell me if it is working fine.

 

[z3us]

Re: Re : AW: The Future of MyFilms?

Some new language stream added (to be tranlated).

Could you attach the english file so I translate it tonight? Else, I will do tomorrow