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Changelogs / 0.9.8.11
« on: June 10, 2008, 12:18:00 am »
-FeatureScript Engine
-FeatureAllMovie.com and World-Art.ru download scripts
-FeaturePlaying multiple files
-FeatureCollapsible multi line custom fields
-FixedIssues with working directory
-FixedSome UI fixes and improvements
-FixedSome minor bug fixes

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Changelogs / 0.9.8.10
« on: May 26, 2008, 12:30:04 am »
-FeatureAnimeNfo Import plugin
-FeatureBlue-Ray Support (beta)
-ImprovedExport plugin
-ImprovedAdded some hotkeys for most used functions
-FixedAmazon, CSV, AMC plugins
-FixedSome issues with navigation in movie list
-FixedScreenshot maker
-FixedSome UI issues
-FixedStatistics
-FixedSome import issues
-FixedWorking with duplicates
-Fixedold pvd database converter
-Fixedsome portability issues
-Fixedmany other different small fixes and improvements
-AddedUkrainian language (by Михалыч)
-AddedHungarian language (by Application Translator Team Hungary)

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Development / MOVED: dvd
« on: May 23, 2008, 11:42:34 pm »

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Changelogs / 0.9.8.9
« on: May 09, 2008, 01:22:10 am »
-Feature:SQL database engine
-Feature:More fields, filters, groups, statistics
-Feature:Faster saving, loading, grouping, import, export
-Feature:Improved Loan Manager
-Feature:Unlimited count of screenhots
-Feature:Unlimited count of posters and photos
-Feature:Better quality image resizing
-Feature:Improved gathering file information, because of the new version of mediainfo.dll
-Feature:Five different types of custom fields
-Feature:Acquire images from TWAIN device (eg. Scanner)
-Feature:A dialog with possible actions appears upon inserting of a CD or DVD
-Feature:Extremly improved Awards, Movie Coinnections and Filmography management
-Feature:Improved export
-Feature:Full Screen mode
-Feature:Improved support for roles in actors field and filmography
-Feature:Many new options
-Feature:New extremely powerful Advanced search
-Feature:Added a possibility to filter episodes
-Improved:TV Series support
-Improved:Some UI improvements
-Improved:Multiple movies editor
-Improved:Screenshot maker
A lot of other fixes and improvemnents

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Development / MOVED: THE MOVIE PLAY BUTTON
« on: March 01, 2008, 03:36:54 am »

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Development / Creating own scripts
« on: December 24, 2007, 02:00:02 pm »
Information in this topic is outdated. Please refer to this document for most current state of the script engine plug-in: http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_scripting.html

Beginning with version 0.9.8.11 there is a possibility to create scripts using Pascal syntax to download movie and person information from the internet.

Scripts were added to make it possible for users to add additional functionality to the program without deep programming knowledge.

There are already some scripts available, so the only thing you will need to do in most cases is to set some values for constants  and write code to parse HTML pages. Mostly it is just about finding unique texts around information needed.

I have added multiple useful functions to make creating scripts easier.


Scripts should be saved in Scripts directory and have a .psf extension. All the scripts communicate with the main program with help of a special Script Engine plugin scriptint.dll.
Scripts can not work without this plugin.

PVD treats the scripts just like plugins, so you can configure them, combine in bacth files etc.

The following information can be set using scripts:
  • All movie information fields, including custom fields
  • All person information fields
  • Posters

Please take into account that only a small subset of information fields can be set up in the program to be overwritten or not. All other fields are always overwritten.

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Development / Creating templates for export plugin
« on: December 05, 2007, 05:15:18 am »
Information in this topic is outdated. Please refer to this document for most current state of the export plug-in: http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_export.html

Templates are file with .ptm extension. Main template files must be saved in Plugins\Templates directory, subtemplates can be saved anywhere.

Options

Template options have to be at the top of the main template file between %OPTIONS% tag.

Following options are available:
replace="value1<->value2"Replaces value1 with value2 in all variables. You can set value1 or value2 to a line break using #13#10
filter="value"File filter used in "Save as" dialog. Ex.: HTML Files|*.html;*.htm
encoding="value"Text encoding. This parameter can be the following value:
  • ANSI - Save as ANSI text (using Windows default code page)
  • UTF8 - Save as UTF8
sortby="value"Number of the field that should be used for sorting.
sortdir="value"Sorting direction.
  • sdAscending - Sort Ascending
  • sdDescending - Sort Descending
imagepath="value"Where images are to be saved. This path should be relative to the resulting text file.
recordtemplate="значение"Path to a template for generating a file for each record relative to main template file.
recordfilename=[name]%d.[extension]How to name files generated using recordtemplate. %d will be replaced with a counter
pagestpl="value"Path to a template for generating a list of pages relative to main template file.
prevtpl="value"Path to a template used in pagestpl to create a link to a previous page relative to main template file.
nexttpl="value"Path to a template used in pagestpl to create a link to a next page relative to main template file.
pagelinktpl="value"Path to a template used in pagestpl to create a link to a certain page number relative to main template file.
pagecurtpl="value"Path to a template used in pagestpl to output current page number relative to main template file.
copyfile="file1<->file2"Copy file1 to file2
fullstar="value"Path to the full star image. (relative to resulting text file)
halfstar="value"Path to the half star image. (relative to resulting text file)
nonestar="value"Path to the empty star image. (relative to resulting text file)
itemsperpage="value"Number of movies per page

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Development / Batch plugins
« on: December 05, 2007, 05:14:37 am »
You can combine plugins, so they are executed one by one.

To do so you need to create a file with extension .batch and put it into the Plugins directory.

Those files have following format:

NAME={VALUE}
DESC={VALUE}
TYPE={VALUE}
EXECUTE={LIST_OF_PLUGINS}


NAME - a short name of the plugin that will be shown in New Movie Master (for example)
DESC - Decription of the plugin. This text is shown in Main Menu
TYPE - Type of the plugin. This parameter accepts following values:
  • 2 - Movie Information
  • 3 - Import from other databases
  • 4 - Poster Import
  • 5 - Cover import
  • 6 - Persons Import
  • 7 - Export
EXECUTE - List of plugins to be executed. Filenames of the plugins are listed here separated with |


Example of batch file:
Code: [Select]
NAME=IMDB+KinoPoisk[EN+RU]
DESC=[EN+RU]Get movie information from IMDB.com and then from Kinopoisk.ru
TYPE=2
EXECUTE=imdb.dll|kinopoisk.dll

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Development / Programming own plugins
« on: December 05, 2007, 05:00:28 am »
Personal Video Database and all plugins currently included in the installation package are written in Delphi. So, all function declarations here are in Object Pascal. It should be easy, thou, to translate them into C++ or some other language without problems.

Feel free to download some samples of different plugin types. [Download]
To compile the samples you will need TntWare Components. I have uploaded an older version of these components, because the new ones are not free any more. [Download]

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Development / Translating Personal Video Database
« on: December 05, 2007, 04:58:34 am »
Translating for all PVD users

  • Download the file with Strings in a language you can translate from.
  • Make a translation
  • Send me translated strings, and I will add them to the language file of the program. Please, tell me what language it is and char set of the file (if you know which one it is saved to).

Language files:

 English
 
 German
 
 Russian
 
 Serbien
 
 Serbien (Cyrillic)
 
 Slovenian
 


Old language files (not compatible with current version):
 Hungarian
 
 Ukrainian
 
 Dutch
 
 Spanish
 
 Japanese
 
 Italian
 
 French
 
  Chinese
 
* Languages marked red are to be updated!


Custom translations

From version 0.9.6.3 there is a possibility to create custom translations for the program. These translations are loaded from "custom.lng" file in program directory or from the file with the same name and location as a database file, but with .lng extension. Such translations could be used for example if you want to store some other kind of information in the database than movies and you want to change the texts to correspond your tasks.

The file format is very similar with .rc-files used for normal translation, with following exceptions:
1. There is no need in the first two lines:
STRINGTABLE
{

2. There is no need in the last line:
}
3. Indexes must always be from 100 to 3100
4. The string at index 100 must be the language id (ex.: 100, "$09" //English)

All the languages above can be downloaded as custom translations. (you will need to rename the files and place them in the right location as described above to make them load)

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Changelogs / 0.9.7.1
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:31:50 am »
-Fixed:Overwrite options
-Fixed:Import persons from IMDB
-Fixed:DB corruption is some circumstances
-Fixed:Some small fixes in plugins

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Changelogs / 0.9.7
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:31:24 am »
-Feature:Scan folders for new movies and changed paths
-Feature:Batch plugins
-Feature:Dropdown list as search box
-Feature:Automatically add new values to lists
-Feature:Dramatically improved search
-Feature:Find and Replace
-Feature:New Field: Date of death
-Feature:Different customizable coloring of links to movies or persons that exist in the database
-Feature:Actors with Roles in Movie Information Card
-Feature:Hints with image and info for links to existing persons or movies
-Feature:Append database
-Feature:Import from CSV
-Feature:Overwrite confirmation dialog
-Feature:ISO support
-Feature:-showhidden command line parameter to show hidden files in File select dialog
-Feature:Option: Show filesize as MB, GB
-Improved:More Filters
-Improved:Dramatically improved export
-Improced:Screenshots are saved in Jpeg
-Improved:All lists on one page + new lists Languages, Countries
-Improved:Faster UI Drawing
-Fixed:Many different bug fixes

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Changelogs / 0.9.6.3
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:30:47 am »
-Feature:Custom Language Files support
-Feature:New Plugins: FilmUp.Com Movie,Poster,People Import; OFDB.de People Import
-Feature:File Association
-Improved:Dialogs can be closed with ESC
-Improved:Mouse Wheel support
-Fixed:Web Search Unicode issue
-Fixed:Unicode Hints
-Fixed:Some other fixes and improvements

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Changelogs / 0.9.6.2
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:30:19 am »
-Feature:Filters: "*" - fields has value; "-" - field has no value
-Feature:Import posters from impawards.com
-Fixed:Grouping people
-Fixed:Max. Photo width/height options
-Fixed:Wrong list display in some situations
-Fixed:Opening password protected DB on program start
-Fixed:Endless loop some times when building Recent files menus

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Changelogs / 0.9.6.1
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:29:54 am »
-Feature:Import/Export Custom fields
-Fixed:Unicode issues in File Open dialog
-Fixed:Unicode issues with HTTP queries
-Fixed:Remove people duplicates
-Fixed:Screenshots order
-Fixed:Tree view sorting
-Fixed:All movies were set to not seen in some situations

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Changelogs / 0.9.6
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:29:26 am »
-Feature:Recent files in File Menu
-Feature:New Movie Master: Wish, Open Screenshot Maker
-Feature:AutoSave
-Improved:Remove duplicates now also works for people
-Improved:Better links behaviour
-Improved:People are also added from general import plugins (if the option is set)
-Improved:Importing fields with different date/time/file size formats
-Changed:New Movie Master settings are saved to ini
-Fixed:Tags field could not be hidden
-Fixed:Default "Seen" state was not saved to ini
-Fixed:Some Unicode issues
-Fixed:Some UI fixes
-Fixed:XML Parser bug with multiline descriptions
-Fixed:Importing filmography from Kinopoisk.ru (Russian actors)

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Changelogs / 0.9.5.1
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:28:58 am »
-Fixed:Indexing people
-Fixed:Some bugs with sorting
-Fixed:Some UI fixes
-Feature:Japanese language (thanks to Nardog)

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Changelogs / 0.9.5
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:28:30 am »
-Feature:Screenshot maker
-Feature:New Fields: Aka, Tagline, Features, Wish, Other Rating
-Feature:New Filters: Title+OrigTitle+Aka, Aka, Viewed date, Wish/Have/All
-Feature:Option: Maximum Poster Height and Width
-Feature:Option: Default seen state (when adding new movie)
-Feature:Option: All Words in Title start with capital letter
-Feature:Option: Place Prefix at the begining of the title
-Feature:Option: Web Plugins: Overwrite fields
-Feature:Option: Use minutes in Duration field
-Feature:Option: Automatically set IDs for new movies
-Feature:Added a possibility to set specific viewed date
-Feature:More Statistics
-Feature:Import Movie Information from www.moviemeter.nl
-Feature:Import People Information from imdb.com and kinopoisk.ru
-Feature:Import covers from AllCDCovers.com
-Improved:Producer, Scenario and URL fields are made multiline
-Improved:Some internal optimization
-Changed:All Paths are saved as relative paths in a separate folder for each database
-Changed:Many different UI fixes and improvements
-Fixed:Retrieving file size of very big files

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Changelogs / 0.9.4.2
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:28:03 am »
-Feature:Load screenshots from Folder
-Feature:Spanish Language (thanks to Yervant Kaspar)

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Changelogs / 0.9.4.1
« on: December 05, 2007, 02:27:35 am »
-Feature:Languages and Subtitles are automatically imported from DVDs
-Feature:Dutch language (thanks to Radjesh Klauke)
-Fixed:Some minor fixes
-Fixed:Application closes faster

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