What's new in Movie Collector? (page 5)

Fixed:

• Quick Search Suggestions:
  • selecting an item from the suggestion list would sometimes do nothing with a grouping on more than one field active
  • clicking the “show all results for…” label after pasting a search string with the mouse didn’t always perform the search
• Quick Search: “matches:” followed by nothing would result in a “regular expression required” error
• Scaled images for thumbnails, CLZ Movie export, etc. are now saved without metadata for smaller file sizes and better performance
• Main Screen:
  • Images Popup didn’t show box set covers
  • Nothing would show when switching to Cards view after applying the quick filters
  • Select random didn’t always work properly in a filtered list
• Manage Pick Lists: deleting text from the search box would initiate “remove item”
• Import from XML: price and value fields weren’t always imported correctly
• Import from Text: fields were not properly imported when delimiter appeared in field value
• Sync with Cloud: HTML in plot and notes fields didn’t always sync down properly
• Editing/Adding Pick List items: it was possible to create duplicate items with identical Display Names
• Add/Link Movie Files: “Get Title From” option is now saved

We’ve expanded the quick search box to now also allow “search-as-you-type” with suggestions for pick list fields.

How does it work?

In the quick search box top right of your screen you should see a “dropdown” button. Use this to select which field you wish to perform a search on. If “search-as-you-type” is available for that field, it will instantly work once you start typing in the box.

Example

You can now select the field “Actor” in the quick search box, start typing an actor name, and instantly see suggestions (based on what you typed) of actors you have in your database. Click on an actor to see all his/her movies!

Fixes in this version

We also fixed some issues with the program in this version:

• Images Popup:
  • “size window to picture” showed image slightly smaller
  • .tiff images were not showing
• Add Movies Automatically:
  • “Add Anyway” would cause an Access Violation for result selected from suggestion list
• Carbon/Quicksilver Details template:
  • episode links weren’t always clickable depending on size of the details view

New:

• “Single Sided, Triple Layer” and “Single Sided, Quad Layer” added as layer options
• Images popup now also supports “Size Picture to Window without stretching” option
• Quick search: suggestions now also are shown when searching on “Title” field

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
• Quick Search: applying a filter could cause unexpected behaviour
• Images Popup:
  • the status bar wasn’t always showing the right image path when opening
  • .bmp images were not showing
• CueCat scanner wasn’t working properly any more

Quick Search: Search-As-You-Type suggestions

Instantly find and select a particular movie in your local database:

• In the Quick Search box, just start typing the first few letters of the title you are looking for.
• While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the first five matching movies.
  (for most movies, it only takes 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.)
• Once you see the one you were looking for, use the up/down keys to select it, then hit Enter.
• The movie will now be selected in your list, with the details showing in the Details Panel.

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Fixed:

• Crashes during Check for Update process

Fixed:

• Edit Movie:
  • On User Defined Fields tab, “_[Add pick list item]_” didn’t work for comboboxes
  • Changing the role for a credit would mark all movies dirty where that person appeared instead of just the edited movie
• Edit Episode: “Seen It” was not automatically checked when viewing date was filled in
• Manage Pick Lists: removing pick list items didn’t mark their corresponding movies as modified
• Main Screen: accelerator keys in main menu (like “ALT+F” for files menu) didn’t work
• Add/Link Movie Files: movie files that were linked as “Trailer” were still showing when “Hide Linked Files” was checked
• Submit Missing Barcode: it was possible to click the “Add Movie” button when there were no movie results, causing an “Access Violation”
• Sync with CLZ Cloud: multiple Formats were not properly down syncing

• In Add Movies Automatically, when a barcode is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized Barcode” screen will appear.
• In this screen:
  1. Just find your movie by title (Search-As-You-Type is also active here!)
  2. Select the format (DVD, Blu-Ray, etc..)
  3. Use the integrated Find Cover tool to select the cover image.
  4. Then click Add Movie.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the barcode to OUR Core online movie database, connected to the movie you selected.
  2. Add the movie to YOUR database with full movie details, your barcode, format and image AND linked to the new Core entry.

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New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

Fixed:

• Linking Movies with Core: a barcode search that resulted in several results couldn’t be expanded
• Export to XML: exporting could cause an “Invalid Pointer Operation” error

• Title searches: Search-As-You-Type suggestions drop-down now includes an extra entry “Show all results”, to take you directly to the “normal” title search results.
• Title searches are now much faster, as the program does not download all edition listings for all movies anymore. It now downloads these “on demand”, only for the movie entries that you expand to see the edition list.
• Previewing a result is now much faster too.

Fixed:

• Export to XML is now capable of exporting large databases without “Out of Memory” errors, as it now writes the XML directly to hard disk. This is a bit slower though.
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked.
• Edit Multiple: F8 didn’t clear price values.

Fixed:

• Main Screen: a double hint was showing for the thumbnail slider to resize thumbnails in Images View
• Cloud Sync: log messages weren’t showing any more
• User Defined Fields: values of check box lists were not loaded correctly in some cases

Fixed:

• Program could throw a “Handle is invalid” error after multiple edits
• Add Movie Automatically: wrong entries could be removed from the queue after adding movies in “queue mode”

If you are adding most of your movies “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Movies Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the title you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the five most popular titles that match,
   including the release year and a small thumbnail image.
3. For recent / popular movies, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular movies, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your movie appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact movie will be listed, automatically Previewed on the right.
6. Click the Add Selected button to add it to your database.

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Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Movie: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding cast and crew.
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no movies were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.
• Edit Multiple: F8 in Movie format field would also clear Disc format field of first disc.
• Main Screen: “Edit in List” feature made it seem like “Extra Features” could be edited but it shouldn’t be editable.

Fixed:

• Export to HTML/Printing would throw a “Field id 123 has no XML tagname.” error for the “Is TV Series” field
• Add automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue
• Main Screen: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text in two panel mode when no movies were showing in the list
• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.

Fixed:

• Carbon templates: Links and Tags labels were missing
• Sync with Cloud: Down syncing a TV Series would uncheck the “Is TV Series” field
• Edit Movie: Previous/Next/Ok could mess up data when the edit screen was still loading

Fixed:

• Edit Movie/Episode: :
  • Some interface elements didn’t fit in the edit screen
  • Checkbox List hints would sometimes not disappear
• Export to HTML: access violation could occur in some cases when using a custom index template
• Main Screen: changing font size could make some screen elements disappear

Tweak

• Date Fields: Year field’s position now also depends on system’s shortdate setting

Fixed:

• Edit Movie/Episode: :
  • Date fields didn’t clear their Month and Day values using next/previous when they weren’t filled in for the next/previous item
  • Delete key didn’t work in Month and Day fields to clear their values. Backspace did work normally.
• Details View: Popup with episode image didn’t always show the right caption when clicking the episode image in the template

• Date fields now have dropdowns for Month and Day. Order of Month and Day dropdown depends on system’s shortdate setting now

Fixed:

• Edit Movie:
  • some fields didn’t keep their focus when using next/previous
  • Move Up/Down in Online and Local Links sometimes didn’t work
• Edit Multiple: F8 in date fields didn’t clear them
• Centurion Carousel: “Operation not allowed on sorted list” error when trying to check in disc
• Main Screen:
  • horizontal scrollbar was sometimes showing in folder tree when it shouldn’t
  • Cards View: scrolling using the mouse wheel wasn’t working properly
  • layout wasn’t always restored properly when quick filter panel was showing
• Quick Filter Panel: collection status filter wasn’t showing in filter description at bottom of the screen

Fixed:

• Edit Movie:
  • “List index out of bounds” error when deleting an episode when it was the only one.
  • “List index out of bounds” error when deleting a local link could occur.
• Main screen:
  • Right click popup menu to customize toolbar didn’t show.
  • Sometimes the screen layout wasn’t restored properly after start of program.
• Filter panel: closing the filter panel didn’t reset the Collection Status filter.
• Lookup Grid: filtering the dropdown then using the arrow keys to select name didn’t update the dropdown’s text.

• Quick Filter panel is now opened/closed using a new button on the toolbar (to the left of the folders button). No more automatic sliding when moving the mouse.
• Smoother filter sliders (Ratings, Year, Running Time)

Fixed:

• Opening then closing the Quick Filter panel could change the width of the other panels.
• Minimizing a full screen program, then restoring would not restore to full screen.
• Weird problems while resizing program windows.
• Main Screen: Cover flow had a white background with Light and Sytem Skin (now black again).
• Edit Multiple Movies: “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window” could occur when clearing a check list with F8.
• Switching to or starting in System skin didn’t always refresh Details Panel.

Fixed:

• View problem: when starting the program with the main screen in “maximized” mode,
  some panels where not filled correctly (list panel, toolbar).

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: It wasn’t possible to select a result from the result list.

• The opening and closing of the panel is now much smoother.
• It’s now less likely that the panel opens inadvertently,
  as the “responsive area” is now smaller and there is slight delay before it reacts.

• Now automatically slides back when not clicked.

Fixed:

• Edit Movie screen:
  • Episode list columns could not be resized.
  • Some field values were showing in bold.
  • On User Defined tab, the check box lists were not scrollable.
  • Check box lists didn’t show hints for items that were too wide to fit.
  • Date fields were showing a ‘0’ for empty Month and Day. Will now only show when Month or Day field has focus
• Images View in Classic mode now also has a dark background while using Dark Skin.
• Quick Filter panel: Collection status filter was reset after panel moved open and closed.
• Vee Eight template: font size was too small.
• Add Automatically: Search Queue info was not updated after selecting a result.
• Import from Other Collection: Episode First Air Date and Episode Viewing Date year values were not importing.

Quick Filter panel tweaks

The panel now allows you to keep the selected filter active after closing the panel.
To do so, use the new “Keep Active” checkbox at the bottom of the panel.

Fixed:

• Some cosmetic fixes to the Skins:
  • Light and System Skins: gridlines in main screen list are now more subtle (light gray).
  • Light Skin: now also has alternating row colors, just like the Dark Skin
  • Dark Skin: Toolbar mouse-over tool tips were hard to read.
• Edit Movie screen:
  • On Links tab, the URL and Description columns were switched around. Type columns was missing.
  • Storage Devices: “Find available slot” was disabled even though a storage device was selected.
• Add Movies Automatically screen:
  • Screen now opens (much) faster.
    (The New Releases tab contained many erroneous entries,
    making the loading of list and the screen very slow.)

  • Dark Skin: white panels showing while loading.

Fixed: The gray font in the Light Skin has been changed to a black font.