DvdpVerify is back!

What happened? Well, when I was about to add the integration with CastCrewEdit I realized that I had - stupidly - painted myself into a corner. It couldn't be done! I could keep the user interface, but I would have to rewrite all the code from scratch. I was so mad at myself because I should have known that the approach I had taken would not work. I had half a mind to scrap the whole project.

When I had drowned my sorrows in an Irish Coffee I felt a bit better, so I decided to sleep on it. The next day I decided to start over, not only to make it work, but to make it better. So here we are with DvdpVerify 1.0.0.



Not only did I add the integration with CastCrewCheck, but I added transparency so you can see through the program if you wish, and I also added search options similar to the ones in Profiler. You can read all about it in the new updated help file.

During testing I realized that "Group complete" was a mistake, and it should be the opposite, so now you can flag
"Group incomplete" if there is an entry missing.

When you have done your auditing, it is easy to see where the profile needs to be updated.

I thought I could live with the limitation that you couldn't add items to a list. But then I also realized that you couldn't reorder then, and that irritated me. So I sat down and created another update. There is actually quite a few changes that may no be immediately obvious.



The one thing you see here is that the "Group incomplete" checkbox is gone, since you can now add missing items directly in the lists. You can also remove items and reorder them by moving them up and down. An indicator will show if a group has been reordered. Alt-Ctrl-Click in a list will not only reset all items to Undetermined, it will also reload the list, undoing any removals or reordering.

And of course the Help file has been updated.

DvdpVerify 1.1.0

Now I think I'll actually use DVD Profiler to find a movie to watch. I feel I've earned it ... 

I think I am fix fixated.    Whenever I find anything amiss, even if it is a really minor anomaly, I want to fix it and get it out there. I hate seeing blemishes on my software.

So, when I found that this program didn't work quite as intended when you maximized the window, I of course fixed it. But it seemed silly to release a new version just for that, since there is very little reason to maximize the window. It rather defeats the purpose of the program.

So that made me think that maybe something in the opposite direction would be useful. After all, you would want the window to cover as little as possible. So I thought that maybe the font didn't always need to be 12 points. So I tested making it possible to decrease the font size by steps of one point.

Then I thought that people with extremely high resolution monitors might actually want to go the other direction. And why not let them? So I made it possible to increase the font size as well.

Now Ctrl-Down decreases the font size down to a minumum of 4 points. Ctrl-Up increases the font size up to a maximum of 36 points. The font size that you have when you exit the program will be saved and used as default on the next run. Ctrl-Home will reset the font size to whatever it was when you started the program.

In addition to that, I have made a number of cosmetic changes and other minor fixes. If you got a large number of hits for a title search, the window could expand way beyond the lower border of the screen. No more.

Will I be able to give it a rest now, and not bother you with further updates? Well, that remains to be seen. 

With no further ado, here is DvdpVerify 1.3.0. 

By all means, please go back to binge watching Hawaii Five-O.

DvdpVerify 1.4.1

A very minor fix:
Variable lists reported their status incorrectly if there were both corrected and unverified items. This could cause a tab header to show Unverified (yellow) instead of Corrected (pink).

OK, one last major update ... *

DvdpVerify 1.5.0

I wasn't happy with how the boolean (Yes/No) items were presented. I wanted to make it easier to get an overview of them. So I changed them to checkmark and crossmark icons, thus:


The icons have a yellow, green or red border to indicate their status (Undetermined, Verified and Corrected, respectively).
The illustration on the download page shows this more clearly.

In addition, items that are not applicable for the current profile are disabled (and regarded as correct).
Somewhere along the line, the general font was set to Bold. That was a mistake and has been corrected.

* Promises, promises ...   

I'm still finding a few details that I'm not satisfied with. So here is DvdpVerify 1.5.2.

I changed how Ctrl-click works. It used to set all items in the group to verified. Now it set all items to verified except those already set to corrected (pink). This made more sense.

Also, if a profile did not have Rating Details, a checkbox for Rating Details was not shown, and thus you could not add rating details if you found that they should be added. This has been corrected.

There is one final thing that I'm not happy with. When there are both unverified and corrected items in a tab, the tab header shows pink (corrected). I would like it to show that there are both unverified items and corrected items. But tab headers are complicated, and I'm still waiting for that "Eureka" moment when I can see the solution in my mind. Not sure it will ever come ... 

GSyren Productions proudly presents:
DvdpVerify 2.0

There were a couple of things that bothered me in DvdpVerify version 1. The foremost one was that when a list was rearranged, but all items in the list were correct in themselves, there was no indication that this needed to be fixed in the actual profile, nor any way to mark it as fixed.

I was also not fond of the whole look. I wanted a more "structured" look. And the way the status was handled was complicated and bugged, leading to sometimes incorrect flagging of the tabs. Moving items was awkward when the list was long. You had to right click for the context menu for every step. So that needed changing. Adding items was also not as convenient as it should be.

So I decided to basically rewrite the program from scratch. About the only thing kept over from version 1 was the code that loaded the export file. Now the program looks like this:



As you can see, the color on the tabs have been replaced by "traffic lights", indicating the status of the data in each tab. I have also ditched the idea of transparency. I found that it really wasn't very useful, and it added a lot of code unnecessarily.

Since this is 95% new code, there could possibly be bugs that I haven't found during my testing. If you come across any, please let me know. There is, in fact, one minor cosmetic bug that I haven't quite decided how (or if) I should tackle. See if you can find it.

Oh yeah, there is of course a whole new help file that you should at least glance through.

Download it here.