ShowImageGrabber Query (also MovieWiz Query)

[jksmurf]

Hi again JW

Sorry for all these Q's today, they're really all part of the same GREAT plugin for me. Can I ask you how the ImageGrabber works wrt Placeholders?

If you have do NOT make a placeholder selected (in Options) but DO have "Refresh Placeholders" selected, presumably this will only refresh EXISTING placeholders?

Can you pls also check ShowImageGrabber to see if the checkbox option selected e.g. TO or NOT TO make a placeholder can be made "sticky", it seems to default to "Make a Placeholder"?

How do I actually recognize a placeholder? I'm not sure if it's a brown icon thing with a reel that says "No Poster" on it (or whether that was downloaded by another plugin program, like Xrecord or Programm Image Tool by Carlito).

I ask as I seem to have got a lot of shows with a name on the image file, but it is BLANK and opens as about 3 white little pixels and one black one in MS Paint. When I open it with Irfanview, Irfanview says it seems to be an incorrectly named png file ?? :confused:

k.

[JavaWiz]

Hi again JW

Sorry for all these Q's today, they're really all part of the same GREAT plugin for me. Can I ask you how the ImageGrabber works wrt Placeholders?

If you have do NOT make a placeholder selected (in Options) but DO have "Refresh Placeholders" selected, presumably this will only refresh EXISTING placeholders?

Sorry, I'm travelling this week and don't have access to the code, and I don't remember how that code works exactly. I'll have a look next week when I'm back home.

Can you pls also check ShowImageGrabber to see if the checkbox option selected e.g. TO or NOT TO make a placeholder can be made "sticky", it seems to default to "Make a Placeholder"?

Right now ShowImageGrabber does not persist any settings between runs. I'll add it to the list of things to do.

How do I actually recognize a placeholder? I'm not sure if it's a brown icon thing with a reel that says "No Poster" on it (or whether that was downloaded by another plugin program, like Xrecord or Programm Image Tool by Carlito).

If I recall, the placeholder is a single pixel image file. It will have the name of the show. The 'No Poster' images come from IMDB, I think ShowImageGrabber will recognize them and use a placeholder instead.

I ask as I seem to have got a lot of shows with a name on the image file, but it is BLANK and opens as about 3 white little pixels and one black one in MS Paint. When I open it with Irfanview, Irfanview says it seems to be an incorrectly named png file ?? :confused:

k.

That is the placeholder image file.

[jksmurf]

OK Cheers

k.