My Videos By Raven

[darrin75]

Reven,

Would It be possible to create small icons/buttons at the top of my videos to jump to say letters, example you have 102 movies and you have 10 movies starting with D exumb & dumber...And then in T you have 10 movies, with these icons or very small letters you be able to jump to all the movies staring with T, without having to scroll through them all. I know a person good make Folders with the letter but then you still have to navigate to many places..Just a thought. Also would it be possible to list the movies in one list from two different hard drives.

[reven]

i wont add the buttons at the top, it would get to cluttered, and honestly it would be but ugly.

ill think about using the numbers to jump to the filename 2 = abc 3=def etc. just working on my music at the moment.

for one list, would you want it so say you have 3 root elements, instead of listing those just list their contents? so have a checkbox saying "list contents" and that would become the virtual root, or do you want say D:\films c:\films all under one element "Films"?

[darrin75]

D:\films c:\films all under one element "Films"?

Thats More of what i am taking about,that way you would not have to jump to different drive, they all be in one list.

[reven]

i doubt i will be able to do that, there would be to many exceptions, and configuration would be a mess. the best i could do is list the root elements items and not themselves.

you could try to find a program that does this for you and lists those items in one dir as a network drive. relax maybe able to do this, ive never really played around with it.

[darrin75]

We need to ask the author of video archiver, when i used his previous archiver it would list all movies in one list, not sure how he done this but, hey maybe he can help

[reven]

he does a completely different file structure, i use directories and leave the file structure up to the users machine. if you dont like the setup either use the video archiver or change you're file structure.

configuring this in my videos, would throw the virtual root into chaos, like which ones are meant to be grouped together, which ones are just a single node. i have a way of doing this i think, but cant guarantee anything, and its not on the top of my to do list, it will appear in "my music" before anywhere else, since thats the one im actively working at the moment, and the features bleed into one another.

[reven]

i was trying to implement this, realized it wouldnt work, i would have to have a virtualroot, and then virtual folders inside the root, and then if there were actual folders in those virtual folders, it would become a mess. so if you really want to have one dir for your video files, you have a complete of options:
1. find a program that does this for you.
2. buy a bigger hard drive
3. partition a few hard drives as one.
4. give me a lot of money to implement this feature.
5. write a plugin yourself

honestly it would be just be to messy, would slow it down, and cause to many problems. best bet is to find a windows program that does this for you.

[KingArgyle]

Reven, email me a couple copies of your XML file you are using. There might be an XPath statement that can be used to get what darrin is asking for. I'd be willing to take a look at it for you.

[reven]

KingArgyle it wouldnt work, i tried it, came up with an xml dtd
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><VirtualRoot>
<Element Name="Films">
<Directory>C:\Films</Directory>
<Directory>D:\Films</Directory>
</Element>
</VirtualRoot>[/QUOTE]

But the problem is that i would have to make a virtual root which is a array of objects (FileDetails, class i made) and then each directory/element off of that would also have to be a virtual directory (same deal) but its to much of a headache to deal with, since you would have to test each parent step to see if you are changing to a directory, a virutal directory or the virtual root.  at the moment i just have an integer and its increment each directory step, when step = 0 i change to the virtual root.  i could make when step =1 try to see if it needs a virtual directory or a regular directory, but honestly its not that important a feature to bother with, this can be achieved via other means, a better file structure is the best way.  the only thing is if its networked directory, then the file structure isnt the answer, but then sometimes the files might be offline, so they shouldnt be stored (well displayed) in the same place anyways.

sure if your hdd isnt large enough for all of your files, then you may seperate them, but multiple hard drives can be partition as one drive, so thats no real drama.  at the end of the day a better file structure will be the easiest solution, and quickest.

also at the moment im not using any xml for the file list, there was no real point, i just use a xml tag in the config.xml file which contains the the directories, their type and name.
im only using xml to remember the directories view.

[Jeff]

Actually in the Video Archiver plug-in I use the user's file structure; I don't impose any precanned strtcrure. The one limit is that I only support 1 level of sub directorys. So, if you have a film directory the lists will be organized by all the sub dircteories under the film directory plus the files in the root film directory itself.

That said, I'm not sure what you are asking for exactly.