A question to devs (soultaker ?)

[Smyken]

I also noticed that MB never reads mymovies.xml if I place one that is correctly tagged with a Genre tag in a Container folder.

So there should be a statement in the MB that is working against another statement since MB sences that it's a (Containing) folder and dosn't read the mymovies.xml but on the other hand MB wants a mymovies.xml to read a Genre from the folder or it will place it under (Unknown).

[hcasse]

Hi PierreLo

The application I wrote is simple. It reads the mymovies.xml file for each movie in a given root folder. It then creates a new folder with the genere name to a target folder. It then creates a .lnk (shortcut) to the movie folder for all the generes in the mymovie.xml file.

I built so that it would keep the folder structure for container (collection) folders if there is more then one movie in the container (collection) for that genere.

Then what you need to do is point MB to your new genere folders, you also have to add folder.jpg into each genere folder to make it look nice.

Genere is the obvious way to use it to categorize your movies, but I've added an option for MPAARating, Name (Actors name), ProductionYear and Studio.

You'll need to have .Net 2.0 frame work installed and I've tested it on Vista and XP. There is no installer just put the files in a folder and run the application.

I very happy with the results, I'll post and you can try it. If the thing crashes let me know I'll try to fix issues but I don't have a lot of free time.

Good luck 8-)

[PierreLo]

hcasse,

Thanks a lot for this. Looks good.
I will start tonight creating the 2365432 shortcuts required and see how it goes :lol: :mrgreen:

Ciao

PierreLo 8-)

[PierreLo]

@HCasse : YOU ARE a God.
@Others : HCasse IS a God

I just tried and it works GREAT. I can't believe it is so simple. Now I just have to get these amazing collection icons and start reorganising my collection...

Thanks a lot for this great little new app that instantly solved an old problem.

Brilliant.

PierreLo 8-)

[hcasse]

I'm glad you found it useful.

2 million shortcuts is massive, wouldn't want to do that manually.

Cheers 8-)

[DemonSeed]

Well I wanted to try it but got a error on the trial run. :cry:


I tryed it on my external HDD and got this as a popup error.



this was in the Details box

Code: Select all

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'J:\System Volume Information' is denied.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption)
   at System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path, String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
   at System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(String path)
   at CreatingShortcuts.Form1.getDirList(String startDir, Boolean recurse, Boolean includeRootDir) in E:\Development\MB\CreatingShortcuts\Form1.cs:line 755
   at CreatingShortcuts.Form1.getDirList(String startDir, Boolean recurse, Boolean includeRootDir) in E:\Development\MB\CreatingShortcuts\Form1.cs:line 761
   at CreatingShortcuts.Form1.getDirListFull(String startDir) in E:\Development\MB\CreatingShortcuts\Form1.cs:line 720
   at CreatingShortcuts.Form1.mainProcess() in E:\Development\MB\CreatingShortcuts\Form1.cs:line 409
   at CreatingShortcuts.Form1.b_processDir_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in E:\Development\MB\CreatingShortcuts\Form1.cs:line 358
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4918 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
CreatingShortcuts
    Assembly Version: 1.0.3441.28273
    Win32 Version: 1.0.3441.28273
    CodeBase: file:///K:/Movie%20ShortCuts/CreatingShortcuts.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4918 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4918 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4918 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4918 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///K:/Movie%20ShortCuts/Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
DS

[hcasse]

This is strange error, I'll try and debug it this weekend.

Demonseed can you provide me with examples of your folder structure in your external hard-drive?

Cheers 8-)

[DemonSeed]

Its just all movie's in individual folders in the root of the hdd

The first error was a internal hdd set up the same way.

[odditory]

OK, soultaker.

Thanks for the feedback. It's a shame as I pointed this out a long time ago, and so did others. Anyway, I don't mind waiting for 2.0.13 to fix this, as long as it comes out in less than 3 days after 2.0.12... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

give 'em a break. believe it or not many MB users prefer the devs concentrate on expanding featureset of the program than about catering to the spray painters that can't sit still without changing their theme every day whenever some new k-rad shiny boxcover screenshots get posted.

[PierreLo]

Odditory,

Sit back, take a deep breath, and relax :) It seems you slightly misinterpreted my message..:mrgreen: :roll:

As for what you call "catering to the spray painters that can't sit still without changing their theme every day", well, if you have 10 seconds to spend, look in the Fan Artwork forum, you will see that some very active developers still show some interest in how the whole thing look...
Aren't we talking about a home theater app here, with the so called 10-feet interface ?

Anyway, I was obviously joking a bit with devs (well it was not THAT obvious it seems), it's only my usual way of communicating with them here (soultaker, I know you did not take it bad, did you :mrgreen: :mrgreen: )

Have fun

PierreLo 8-)