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End Of The Day
Originally uploaded by creativesam.

It’s a sunny day so this will be a short post. I need to go out and stomp daisies

Well, this post is just a quick update about movida. I have finally integrated WebKit into movida so you will need Qt 4.4 (RC1 or later). Both the template based “details” view and the movie preview of the movie import plugin use the new super duper cool QtWebKit module.
It still needs some fixes - mostly because WebKit is a fully featured browser so I need to disable and handle a couple of things but it works great.

The screen below shows the new embedded default template. Too sad that WebKit doesn’t allow to access embedded resources from an HTML file, so I had to embed both CSS and images into the HTML (thank the Holy Spaghetti Monster if the Troll’s didn’t embed IE into Qt, so this was no issue at all ).

I’m also planning to add some nifty features: for instance, clicking on an actor name should apply a filter and show all movies featuring that guy. This would also make the shared data view needless. Cool

Ok. It’s daisy stomping time!

PS: actor (as well as any other shared data) order is now user defined and preserved when loading/saving a collection. Now you should be able to tell movida that Taxi Driver is about De Niro and Foster, and not about Shepherd

PPSSP: templates will be i18n-able sooner or later. I just need to find out the best way to achieve this

Huge Eastern SVN commit for movida.

I have found some time to add a couple of nifty features and fix old bugs. And the new features confirm that movida is acting more as my personal Qt / C++ / Perl playground than an application that will ever see v. 1.0

As to the new features I have mainly cleaned up and extended the support for filter functions and added initial support for various d&d operations.

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Ok, long time no posts about movida, mostly because I didn’t find the time to work on it again.
Now, I have managed to commit a huge amount of code written about last Christmas (O___O) and a couple of new bug fixes and features.

I am trying to actually import my own movie collection into movida and it’s quite a PITA because it’s pretty huge.
I have a text file listing the titles of all my movies but using it all at once to make queries on IMDb is nonsense. You would end up having to check and filter an endless list of matching search results.
And given that none of the titles on my movies list is 100% accurate there is really no way in adding some magic.

So, I ended up importing about 5-6 movies at a time. It will still take days though

Nevertheless, this funny task helped me to find bugs and important features that were missing. Number one: advanced filtering.

The screenshot above shows the new support for filter functions. IOW, it is now possible to enter special strings in the filter box and trigger special filters.

The screen shows the only working filter so far — @id(ID_LIST) — used internally (IDs are not visible to users, who wouldn’t give a squirrel about it) to show only imported movies after using the.. yeah, the (plugged-in) IMDb import wizard

Pretty cool. Now I can set some properties on the whole bulk of just-imported movies, like tagging them all as “seen”

PS: yes, that last comma in the ID list has been removed before committing on the SVN O___O
PPS: the format of those special functions is only temporary. I don’t know if @function(parameter, parameter, …) is powerful enough to build up some interesting (though automatically generated or user-friendly) filters.

Snail on sail
Originally uploaded by Colours of Infinity.

The photo above is in no way related to the slowness of the development on movida. Ok?!?

Ok, enought with it. This post is not about bikinis or naked racoons, in case you are wondering, so feel free to stop reading and close this page.

There’s been lot’s of progress on movida since my last post and mainly on the Smart View (how does it come that I call something I have written “smart”?!?) and on the bug-side
In short, this post is about zooming the Smart View, new movie attributes, new smart view controls and compressed SVGs. No, no bikinis!

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growlingagainstgod
Originally uploaded by biscottiallozenzero.

I took myself another hour to complete the movida import wizard. Movies are now being actually imported and added to the current collection
The movies you see in the screenshot below have been added using the wizard. I have just typed “.45″, selected the only “exact match” found on IMDb.com, then I have hit the new fancy “new search” button to enter a new query: “matrix”.

That’s all. Movie posters and all the information have been downloaded from IMDb.com and parsed using a perl script.

In case you are having some doubt, the posters will be imported in the collections persistent data directory and saved in the collection’s zip file. This way you won’t loose them

Hope the code on the SVN is still building on both ‘nix and windows ^___^