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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | As Achim said, this will personally be very useful to me.
Will the new window stay open after acceptance of the profile update, so the next one opens using the same window? | | |  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 88 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Copy Cast or Crew XML Please, do that! Yes, I have use for this feature. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Martin Zuidervliet: Quote:
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No, I still have no plans to support localized versions of DVD Profiler.
OK, I am willing to accept that. Except now your plugin only partially uses translated data... I changed my mind. I will provide localization support with the next release. It is however up to the user to do the actual localization. Also, localization is limited to the skin and data display, any error messages will still be either in English or the OS language, depending on the source of the error. If you are interested in Beta testing, let me know. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Takaikkuna: Quote:
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Copy Cast or Crew XML
Please, do that! Yes, I have use for this feature. I agree. Many's the time I'd like to have a way to selectively copy some of the cast/crew without having to take all the data. As it is now, I have to write down any changes I want to make and then go back after updating, re-edit the profile, and make changes based on my notes. If I make the notes in Notepad, I might be able to save some time, but being able to get the cast/crew data as XML would help, IMO. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: June 8, 2007 |  Posts: 58 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Open in New Window
This will open the Comparison in a new browser window.
Useful if you don't want to accept the update of an entire section, but would like to apply partial changes manually. You normally can't do that because the Comparison window is modal and access to DVDProfiler's editing functions is blocked while the Comparison is displayed.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Another feature idea I'm currently toying with:
Compact large cast/crew lists with small differences
This would hide most identical lines from the Diff display, except for a few context lines surrounding each difference. Should probably be threshold-based, i.e. only kick in if the list meets certain criterias like overall listing size, percentage of differences, number of subsequent identical lines, etc.
Thoughts? | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
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Compact large cast/crew lists with small differences
Thoughts? Seems like a good idea. That way one wouldn't have to scroll through a really long list if the only changes are at either end of the list (with a lot of unchanged names in between). | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| | Posted: | | | | There are only few really overlong cast lists (besides TV series) and I like seeing all the entries. I think just seeing the differences may probably irritate me more than it would do good for me. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ya_shin: Quote:
There are only few really overlong cast lists (besides TV series) and I like seeing all the entries. I think just seeing the differences may probably irritate me more than it would do good for me. Right, it would be nice, if "compacting" would be optional. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
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No, I still have no plans to support localized versions of DVD Profiler.
OK, I am willing to accept that. Except now your plugin only partially uses translated data...
I changed my mind. I will provide localization support with the next release. It is however up to the user to do the actual localization. Also, localization is limited to the skin and data display, any error messages will still be either in English or the OS language, depending on the source of the error. If you are interested in Beta testing, let me know. Great!  And yes I would like to test it. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ya_shin: Quote:
There are only few really overlong cast lists (besides TV series) and I like seeing all the entries. I think just seeing the differences may probably irritate me more than it would do good for me. TV series were the reason why this idea actually came to my mind. I encountered quite a few updates with minimal changes in listings of 200 - 300 entries. That did irritate me. As I said earlier, one way to implement this would be (configurable) threshold values, e.g. more than 100 total entries, less than 5% total differences, more than 10 consecutive identical lines for a particular range to be hidden, etc. That way the program could determine when and where it makes sense to use this feature, and the user wouldn't have to actively turn it on and off when comparing a movie profile after a TV series profile. The display could look like that:  Clicking one one of the "xxx entries hidden" lines would a) unhide all hidden entries or b) unhide that particular range. Not sure about that, yet. So far, I'm counting 2:1 against it. I would like some more opinions. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Clicking one one of the "xxx entries hidden" lines would a) unhide all hidden entries or b) unhide that particular range. Not sure about that, yet. Given your explanation and the few profiles where it will come in handy, I'll say: If you have something to click on, that will turn the feature on/off (like with the images), then I will definitely like it! | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| | Posted: | | | | I am happy with the original proposition Matthias | | | | | | | Last edited: by hayley taylor |
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| | Posted: | | | | I like the idea. | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | It would certainly be useful to be able to hide the unchanged entries. But equally sometimes you want to see all the lines - I'm wondering how it would work with TV series - would the dividers still be shown even if you hide unchanged entries? Perhaps just a single tick box on the screen would work (hide unchanged / don't hide unchanged if unticked). From a programming point of view that would be easiest unless you still wanted to put in the threshhold values. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ya_shin: Quote:
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Clicking one one of the "xxx entries hidden" lines would a) unhide all hidden entries or b) unhide that particular range. Not sure about that, yet.
Given your explanation and the few profiles where it will come in handy, I'll say:
If you have something to click on, that will turn the feature on/off (like with the images), then I will definitely like it! sorry - missed your comment. ( i haven't blocked you - even though it might have looked like it..  ) | | | | Paul |
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