my videos 2.1.99.0 bug test

[reven]

ok ive added the ability to use subfolders off of the .link files. so if you place a .link file containing "D:\my videos\" in a dir
and "D:\my videos\" has the subdirs
"a"
"b"
"c"
"d"

they will be added to the list and the same for each of their subfolders, and their subfolders, and so on and so on. it should also work with .link files in another directory, so if you add a .link file to "D:\my videos" and that .link points to "D:\videos\" and in "D:\videos\" you have a .link pointing to "D:\my videos", well that would catch it in a forever loop, but the idea is .link files can be used anywhere.

ive tested this for oh all of ten minutes, and it appears to be working (well this version, ironed out bugs before this).

you need to have v2.1.10.0 first, since i did change some skinning stuff in 2.1.10.0, but havent changed any skinning stuff in this one.

also test check the memory usage, it should be about the same, only using a arraylist to hold the parent directory strings. of course more thigns are being loaded now (ie the subdirs) so it might take a little longer.

once all is well, ill do a proper release, for now its just the dll.

[darrin75]

Cool this is one thing i have been waiting for..Thanks reven..

[reven]

Quote[/b] ]Cool this is one thing i have been waiting for..Thanks reven..

well i didnt do it for you!
i did a reshuffle, and did it for me. but you're welcome. hope it doesnt crash and die.

[reven]

Quote[/b] ]What's this another one? Not doing the button.png in 2.1.10.x really doesn't match up with those mini popup.png which still uses buttonpopup.png. Any chance you'll go back to the old way? But in this beta version it seems you have.

its the exact same as 2.1.10.0 except it has the new .link function. so it is still using the composite images for the menu items. and no i will never ever ever go back.

Quote[/b] ]Can you have this version show us, when you click on a mpg it will give you a dialog box showing you the image of the tv show/movie and the date it was recorded and how big of a file it is?

nope.

[reven]

the infoscreen covers most of this, and the "list" mode shows you the file size. so theres no point for a popup box, and well i dont like that idea, the infoscreen is well better. i would consider adding "@FileSize" to the composite images in the infoscreen, so you can display the file size in megabytes on the info screen, but no to popup.


and the mini popup still use the <buttons>... stuff, the only buttons that use the two composite images are the menu buttonson the side, including the info screen buttons (play, description/cast, back).

[darrin75]

I would love to have a amazon scan for just the poster images, and for those images to be places in the directory with the mpg instead of the database, this would be a good function, because if using a different plugin such as video lib those images would be there instead of the db where only myvideos can access them..

[darrin75]

if not then i guess i will have to manually download them..It cool i still love the new features..

[reven]

i dont expect people to use both plugins, and if the files were placed in the directory everytime you went to the directory the files would be added to the database, this would be slow. so no, use either my videos or video lib, or just put up with it.

btw whats the point using my videos and video lib?

[darrin75]

Well i just wanted a quick way to get the pics for my own development plugin. And implementing this code my self is beyond my learning at this point...

[reven]

oh jeff supplied me and jorm with the amazon/imdb lookup code, i added movietyme and better support for tvtome (kinda messy code with tvtome thou). if you want the amazon/imdb code just ask jeff. i also added the ability to get multiple hits from amazon/imdb which just returns them as a arraylist, jeffs one just uses google "im feeling lucky".