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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
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. Well, the easiest way is also often the most boring - programming-wise.  But after thinking about it some more, I have to agree that multiple thresholds to implement some sort of "intelligence" are probably overkill. So my current spec for this would be: An additional checkbox to "Fold credits" at the top, near the current Show All/Differences selection. This is remembered throughout different sessions, so if someone doesn't like this feature, he can turn it off permanently.If the feature is active, a click on any of the "xx unchanged entries hidden" lines will unhide them all, providing a quick way to unfold the current listing while leaving the option itself active to be used with the next comparison.An Options dialog will provide a way to configure this feature, but in a much simpler way than originally planned. Basically, you can set the minimum number of lines a chunk of indentical credits must have before it gets hidden, because it doesn't make much sense to hide only four or five lines. You can also set the number of context lines that remain visible around a hidden chunk of entries.Quote:
I'm wondering how it would work with TV series - would the dividers still be shown even if you hide unchanged entries? Interesting point, I hadn't thought about that. As far as I can see there are 3 options: Hide them like any other identical entry.Show the one preceding a difference.Never hide dividers.Not sure what the best would be. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | i vote for never hiding dividers.
Dividers are specially helpful in some TV series (Dark Shadows, many UK series) were the credits for the same actor is different from episode to episode. The dividers help to locate the differences.
BTW, THX, its a great tool just as it is. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
i vote for never hiding dividers.
Dividers are specially helpful in some TV series (Dark Shadows, many UK series) were the credits for the same actor is different from episode to episode. The dividers help to locate the differences.
BTW, THX, its a great tool just as it is. i would agree... i dont think i would want dividers to be hidden | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,911 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree too, never hide dividers | | | | Signature banned: Reason out of date... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | yep - don't hide dividers.  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Copy Cast or Crew XML
Context menus (like the Copy All Cast/Cew commands in DVDProfiler's Edit window) with the following commands for cast and for crew:
- Copy Existing Cast/Crew
- Copy New Cast/Crew
- Copy New Cast/Crew without Birth Years
Useful if you want to make some cast and crew changes based on the update, rather than completely accepting the section update. The copied XML can be edited with Notepad or a 3rd party credits editor and finally pasted into DVD Profiler. I was thinking... Wouldn't it be great if you could mark which changes in the new cast/crew you want in or out before using copy so you do not have to use an external editor afterwards? | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good sugestion, Martin. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet: Quote:
Quoting goodguy:
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Copy Cast or Crew XML
Context menus (like the Copy All Cast/Cew commands in DVDProfiler's Edit window) with the following commands for cast and for crew:
- Copy Existing Cast/Crew
- Copy New Cast/Crew
- Copy New Cast/Crew without Birth Years
Useful if you want to make some cast and crew changes based on the update, rather than completely accepting the section update. The copied XML can be edited with Notepad or a 3rd party credits editor and finally pasted into DVD Profiler.
I was thinking... Wouldn't it be great if you could mark which changes in the new cast/crew you want in or out before using copy so you do not have to use an external editor afterwards? Too complicated, but more importantly, it would still lack the flexibility of a freetext-based credits editor. The BY-stripping is a compromise in that regard, because accepting a BY can alter an existing cast/crew person and sometimes that's the only thing you want to prevent. For anything more advanced a freetext-based credits editor is the best choice. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:
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I was thinking... Wouldn't it be great if you could mark which changes in the new cast/crew you want in or out before using copy so you do not have to use an external editor afterwards?
Too complicated, but more importantly, it would still lack the flexibility of a freetext-based credits editor. The BY-stripping is a compromise in that regard, because accepting a BY can alter an existing cast/crew person and sometimes that's the only thing you want to prevent. For anything more advanced a freetext-based credits editor is the best choice. I understand that an external editor gives greater flexibility, but I do not understand why it would be too complicated. Your comparison plugin already can see the differences between the two profiles so I thought it would be "easy" to use flags to indicate which changes you want in/out. Maybe I overestimated your skills or I underestimate the complexity, I don't know. Anyway I have an other idea: How about the ability to automatically open a chosen external editor when using copy? | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Version 1.1.0 of Profile Comparison Plus is now available. Please note that this version requires DVD Profiler 3.1.1.1171 or newer. If you have a previous version installed, you can simply overwrite the old files. Just make sure, you have closed DVD Profiler. Don't forget that you also have to replace the "goodguy PCP Preview" skin. New Features in Version 1.1.0Fold credits to hide chunks of unchanged credit entries and focus on differences in large cast and crew lists with small changes. This feature is both optional and customizable.
Menu with advanced commands. To display the menu, either click on Advanced Options at the top of the comparison page, or right-click anywhere on the middle column containing the section labels.• Open in New Window
Displays the current 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. Since the new window is not modal, you can now use DVD Profiler's Edit window and view the comparison at the same time.
• Flag This Profile
Flag or unflag the currently compared profile in DVD Profiler. Useful if you are going through a batch of updates and want to review some of them more thoroughly later.
• Copy Cast/Crew
Copies the new or the existing cast or crew as XML to the clipboard, optionally with birth years removed. Useful if you want to make partial cast and crew changes manually. The copied XML can be edited with Notepad or a third party credits editor and finally pasted into DVD Profiler. Optional use of credit types (Writing, Sound, etc.) as headers if crew doesn't contain dividers.
Optional subtitle sort.
Configuration dialog to set up various preferences.
Localization support.Download at http://www.geocities.com/goodguy_dvdpro/ | | | | Matthias | | | | Last edited: by goodguy |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just installed it, works great. Amazing job, goodguy!  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks Matthias, just playing with the new version now  | | |  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | The Dutch translation of "Profile Comparison Plus 1.1.0" is part of my Layout and can be downloaded on this page. De Nederlandse vertaling van "Profile Comparison Plus 1.1.0" is onderdeel van mijn opmaak en kan worden gedownload op deze pagina. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
DVD Profiler Nederlands | | | | Last edited: by Daddy DVD |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet: Quote:
The Dutch translation of "Profile Comparison Plus 1.1.0" is part of my Layout and can be downloaded on this page. I have included your link in the first post of this thread. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
I have included your link in the first post of this thread. Thanks Matthias. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
DVD Profiler Nederlands |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | help  I was using this plug in and once i got past microsoft not giving me permissions to do anything on my system (stupid vista) it was working great. I than changed up my layout and then when i went to preview the next batch of changes and i no longer had the preview available. So i figured i'd reinstall the new version...so after updating my dvd profiler and installing the plug as per the directions it was still not available so sad as this plug in made checking profile differences so different (as im sure everyone that uses it knows) -Agrare |
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