Personal Video Database

Sorry for the delay, I'm very busy... all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy....

And of course: thanks for your reply!

But: I'm not sure what you mean since I have no main section. There are multiple sections, first one is the title box, second the two-column main info section (with nested sections), then custom section, screenshot section, etc...
As far as I remember a main section (like opening a section at the beginning of the skin and closing it at the bottom and everything nested inside) drove me crazy and lead to strange results. So I think I abandonded this idea to tame the xml-chaos I've created along the road.

Or maybe I did not get your idea...

Thanks in advance!

Hi, for things like this I use a 'master entry' containing all the repeated details, duplicate it and enter individual data then. Works with every field available (obviously), but is slightly limited when using it for episodes, you have to enter series and episode manually and individually.

Are you including the media quality info in the list title?

Yes, unfortunately. I don’t want to click on the different editions etc. of the same title. E.g.

• [HD] Black Swan
  
• Black Swan

Other prefixes are TV, DC, Ext Cut, Cut, etc. and I want to keep them, and there’s no easy way to move them to the “translated title” field…

Hi everybody.

Since I had the mad idea to create my own skin some general and some specific questions concerning skins popped up:

1. Is it possible to crash PVD with a buggy or erroneous skin, corrupt the installation or even chip the database? I think I managed several times to do so… I switched to my skin and had to refresh manually just to receive a crash report, but after hitting “continue app” I could use my skin. However, every time I opened “settings” PVD crashed again … until it stopped working at all (toolbar got emptied, movie list turned black) and I had to re-install. It always complained about
disassembling:
[...]
007a6a23       mov     eax, [ebp-8]
007a6a26       mov     ecx, [eax]
007a6a28       call    dword ptr [ecx+$3c]
007a6a2b       lea     edx, [ebp-$b4]
007a6a31       lea     eax, [ebp-$a4]
007a6a37     > call    -$31f018 ($487a24)     ; Variants.@VarToUStr
007a6a3c       mov     edx, [ebp-$a4]
007a6a42       mov     eax, [ebx+$2a4]
007a6a48       call    -$253e21 ($552c2c)     ; Controls.TControl.SetText
007a6a4d 110   lea     edx, [ebp-$c4]
007a6a53       mov     eax, [ebp-4]
[...]
Once it even ate all my posters and I had to fall back to a backup to get them out again.
Oh, it all happened on a Win7 machine, x32 and x64, almost forgot.

2. Are there known issues with custom fields spread all over the skin?

3. How can I prevent an unfilled field from collapsing? If the field “origtitle” is not populated (because it is the same as the title) it ‘collapses’ and the column from the right takes its place… Or how can I switch “origtitle” to ‘permanent display mode’?

4. Does it get harder to display the skin if there are lots of blank lines and comments in it?

Thanks!

Hi everybody

I'm about to finish my first skin from scratch (thanks to the skin engine manual and the default skin). The only damn thing that refuses to pop up is that *** customsection.

As far as I got it everything is kinda nested within sections, and customsection is a section , but if I nail it to the end of my skin it won't show up. Actually I just added a copy of the classic skin's customsection... the basic layout is like this:

section 1: title
section 2: main info, several columns
section 3: MSC, several columns
section 4: the missing customsection
 
<customsection>
<color>$3F3F3F</color>
<border shape="none" />
</customsection>

sectin 5: screenshots
Oh, and I've already used some of my customfields - is that the reason?

Any ideas... please..

Hi everybody. I'm looking for a way to download all genres from IMDB, not just the three the plugin currently loads. Is there a way?

Thanks in advance,

Melmoth

Hi there, I'm awfully sorry to come up with a request again, but like a week or two ago my IMDB plugin ceased to find movies. It comes up with the most peculiar titles, none of them are even close to the desired one... I didn't change my or PVD's behaviour, so - to my mind - the IMDB website must have changed. Furthermore - and despite the fact that I told it to load full plot summaries - it just loads stubs with the "see full plot summary" suffix.

Did - by any chance - someone experience the same malady?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Melmoth

Yes, Rick, I realise. But I want more fields 

Basically you're right. But I keep track of the purchase and recorded dates with a custom field, so whenever I import a movie I have to enter the date in a custom field named "Added to DB". That was the only way for me to store dates that cannot be changed by pvd and can be prior to the actual imported to pvd date.

Another nice to have feature would be a popup calender for date fields with a today option... This is an extremly low priority feature suggestion...