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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 20, 2009, 09:35:01 am »
To answer the first part, on 0.9.9.5 if you have the Advanced filters set to All, all of the records show, the visible ones are either white if they have been seen, light blue if they have not been seen and grey if they are not visible. They all appear in the list and are not hidden in any way in the database, you dont have to look for them they are there in the list with all the visible records they only hide if the Advanced filter visible is ticked, but they easily reappear if the Advanced filter All or Not visible is ticked. Please do not get this confused with deletion I am not talking about deletion at all.
Too answer the second part "But I wouldn't expect nostra to out of his way to do that just to accommodate Kroozbox" this couldnt be further from the truth, this IS the way that PVD worked at 0.9.9.5 and previous builds, I am NOT requesting a change to a new way for the program to work, but I am suggesting that the facility that was present on the previous builds be made available again.
It is not my place to influence the way that Nostra programs PVD but I think that I can offer an opinion on a facility that was present and for what ever reason has changed and that was useful to users.
It is fairly obvious that for what ever reason you are against the idea, that presumably means that you were against the way that PVD was being coded at 0.9.9.5 and before. So really you are not in disagreement with me but with the coder of the program, because that was the way it was working at that build.
I am not a programmer so I have no idea if kroozbox could be modified to work in the way that you suggest, all I can do is reiterate that both these progarms worked in harmony at build 0.9.9.5 and have since due to a small change in code lost a small amount of functionality that was very useful.

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 20, 2009, 01:40:27 am »
Hi, I feel as if we are at cross purposes here with what I am asking. In 0.9.9.5 when a film was visible if you right clicked on it the always show menu item was present. If you pressed it the film would become grey instead of light blue and would only be invisible if the visible filter was set. Once the All Advanced filter was set then all films present in the database would be shown including the ones that were not visible with the visible flag set. The delete was never used. The data was never lost or hidden no changes were made to the data and the film data was immediately made visible again if the film was right clicked on again and always show clicked again. With the all flag set all films in the database were present not difficult to find as you suggest.

Whether it was intentional or not that is the way it worked. But now when you right click a film the always show is only there if the film is hidden not if it is visible. I think that Nostra understood what I was saying and that is why he saw the reason behind what I was asking could be made available again quite easily. It is very confusing with all the visible and invisible or hidden or unhidden.
I am quite prepared to except that the way it was not intentional but there had to have been some reason in the first place for it to have been programmed that way.

It is just the simple act of removing the always show menu item being made only available when the film is hidden that has caused the lack of functionality and is no way me requesting that programming be changed by my request to meet the individual needs of kroozbox users.

I think if you tried 0.9.9.5 and presumably builds before it and tried to use the facility you would see what I mean. I can see your point of view that filters will do the same thing, but for whatever reason that an end user might have as a reason for making a film hidden, be it based on religion, parental control, already watched, not available on a certain device within a home cinema system, then I think the ability as it was to make a film hidden is a good facility to have at the disposal of the person maintaining the database.

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 19, 2009, 04:36:10 pm »
I dont wish to labour this point I am not asking for a fundamental change in the way PVD works. I am using 0.9.9.5 with this very functionality of being able to always show to hide a film and always show to unhide a film, this is the very reason why I have not progressed on to the later builds, because that functionality has now been changed to operate in a different way and I would think it would be faily easy to reinstate it.

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 18, 2009, 05:35:59 pm »
The problem with using delete to hide a record is you do not get it back in it's entirety when you undelete. I woulnt have a problem with doing that if it came back with all the info when it was deleted. The poster seems to disappear at first glance and I am not sure if it affects other things. I will stick to 0.9.9.5 for the time being and hope the facility comes back. Thanks for your inputs

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 18, 2009, 07:11:32 am »
I'm not sure about this it all seems to be getting a bit complicated. The ability to make films visible and not visible was part of the 0.9.9.5 build and I have been using it as such quite happily with kroozbox which presumably was being designed alongside the development of PVD and it used the facilities available to it within PVD. It was only making always show only available when the record is not visible that seems to have caused the loss of functionality and I was just using parental control as an example I do not use it for that myself. Just the ability to make sure only the films I want too appear in kroozbox.

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 11:31:41 pm »
I am not an expert on Kroozbox but as I understand it the program looks at the PVD database in its entirity and plucks the visible films out and uses that subset to make up HTML pages. It does not recognise filters or the seen flag to alter its content. Just the visible/ not visible flag to populate those pages. Thus it is critical to be able to mark the films you wish to appear as visible and the ones you dont as invisible. I suppose a use would be if the interface was being used by a family and you did not want all content to be available to say children.

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 08:39:21 pm »
Thats Magic Nostra, can't wait to get the functionality back. Thanks   ;D

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 05:37:08 pm »
Ive just read the section on delete and undelete in the manual and so I tested to see if it would give me the same functionality that was present in 0.9.9.5 and I found that sure it does make the film not visible, but if you then try to undelete it comes back but with stuff missing i.e. the poster is missing. So you cannot achieve the same result as you could in 0.9.9.5

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 04:34:26 pm »
If the facility to make a film not visible is no longer avaliable then why is there an advanced filter to show visible or not visible films. I for one would like this reinstated if it has been removed. Thanks

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 03:52:53 pm »
Hi, I don't want to remove the entry from the database just want to hide it as you could in 0.9.9.5 this especially useful in Kroozbox were it means you can hide stuff that maybe you have watched before, cuts down on the screen clutter and enables you to just look at the stuff you want. Just wondered why it worked in the earlier version and not in newer versions ????

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Support / Re: Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 01:40:20 pm »
Ah! I presume that the functionality has changed since 0.9.9.5 because you could right click a visible film, click always show, and make it invisible. Question then how do you make the film invisible now. Thanks for speedy response

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Support / Always Show Problem
« on: June 17, 2009, 01:15:31 pm »
I have a problem with always show. 0.9.9.5 was the last version were I could right click on a movie title and click always show. Has this option been removed or do I have a problem. Also the always show icon will not show on the toolbar even though other buttons will, this has been on all versions I have tried. This problems exist on two machines running both 32bit and 64bit vista ultimate respectiveley. Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance

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