2014-08-01, 10:13
It's just a small preview of what I have right now, a bit of proof that I am working on vimm 0.8, but also that I haven't gotten all that far yet.
https://www.mediafire.com/?w6kirc1orlaig
Basically, i'm re-writing v0.8 from scratch... again. (If you'd go be re-writes, ViMM would be at v4 or 5 by now. ;-)
Because I wasn't sure how to change the current version of ViMM to fit in all of the many many changes I wanted to make.
Definite v0.8 features for now:
- It'll be Cocoa only, so no more messing around with the 'Intel edition', and by then I hope there won't be any memory leakage.
- Start-up of ViMM is going to be almost infinitely much faster since i'll only be caching poster images instead of poster & fanart images, and i'll cache them at a smaller size so that they will open faster and asynchronously.
• This means that you can continue working with ViMM as it (re)loads movies, tv shows and anime, and instead of loading first movies, then TV shows, it'll load each section at once, whichever is done first will show up first.
- The toolbar will be fully customisable as a Mac OS toolbar should be.
- The 'filter list' on the left contains a bunch of filtering options for easier management of your media.
- The 'Media list' in the middle can be freely resized to show larger or smaller poster images using the slider on the bottom right of the window, putting them in a sort-order should be more logical now without all the sorting options that were passing themselves off as filtering options, and i've copied some of iTunes's keyboard shortcuts such as revealing an item in the finder, which might be some getting used to.
- The information display field on the right is actually a HTML viewer that can be themed if you know HTML/CSS, and with Javascript you can add all sorts of animated fun, such as pop-up images/videos.
• That's right, it'll even be able to show trailers inline through HTML5 video tags.
• Since it does its own image caching and asynchronously loading of images, it'll display information faster and easier.
• Technically, if you liked TinyMediaManager or Ember before, you could even make a theme to recreate their information display, i've mostly successfully mocked up a quick tinyMediaManager theme as an example, and added javascript pop-up images to boot. ;-)
http://cl.ly/image/2l1k1P2W191U/Screen%2....08.04.png
- I'm working as hard as possible on crash prevention, trying to catch bugs before they happen, but i'll have to see how well that works once it's out.
But there is still lots that needs to be done before I can make any kind of release, right now i've pretty much only have the main window mostly ready, and with the advent of OS X 10.10 yosemite, I'll have to re-decide what to do with the window theme, like, do I want to make the left side-bar(s) transparent, and will the toolbar be scroll through as in safari.
Not to mention re-planning on how to do things I used to do that could use different approaches, like how to let users choose their own scrapers rather then using the special ViMM blend, and maybe even letting users add their own scrapers. Fixing the TV episodes management side which is actually working in a horrible manner. Making a better sets/collection manager, and figuring out how to implement and get all of my other incredible plans and ideas for v0.8 that I simply must add to actually work. ?
I don't think it'll be ready this year, so be patient with me while i'll make sure ViMM 0.7x keeps working as I slowly build v0.8 up to be the media manager Mac users ought to use, and Windows users will want to switch to Mac OS for.
https://www.mediafire.com/?w6kirc1orlaig
Basically, i'm re-writing v0.8 from scratch... again. (If you'd go be re-writes, ViMM would be at v4 or 5 by now. ;-)
Because I wasn't sure how to change the current version of ViMM to fit in all of the many many changes I wanted to make.
Definite v0.8 features for now:
- It'll be Cocoa only, so no more messing around with the 'Intel edition', and by then I hope there won't be any memory leakage.
- Start-up of ViMM is going to be almost infinitely much faster since i'll only be caching poster images instead of poster & fanart images, and i'll cache them at a smaller size so that they will open faster and asynchronously.
• This means that you can continue working with ViMM as it (re)loads movies, tv shows and anime, and instead of loading first movies, then TV shows, it'll load each section at once, whichever is done first will show up first.
- The toolbar will be fully customisable as a Mac OS toolbar should be.
- The 'filter list' on the left contains a bunch of filtering options for easier management of your media.
- The 'Media list' in the middle can be freely resized to show larger or smaller poster images using the slider on the bottom right of the window, putting them in a sort-order should be more logical now without all the sorting options that were passing themselves off as filtering options, and i've copied some of iTunes's keyboard shortcuts such as revealing an item in the finder, which might be some getting used to.
- The information display field on the right is actually a HTML viewer that can be themed if you know HTML/CSS, and with Javascript you can add all sorts of animated fun, such as pop-up images/videos.
• That's right, it'll even be able to show trailers inline through HTML5 video tags.
• Since it does its own image caching and asynchronously loading of images, it'll display information faster and easier.
• Technically, if you liked TinyMediaManager or Ember before, you could even make a theme to recreate their information display, i've mostly successfully mocked up a quick tinyMediaManager theme as an example, and added javascript pop-up images to boot. ;-)
http://cl.ly/image/2l1k1P2W191U/Screen%2....08.04.png
- I'm working as hard as possible on crash prevention, trying to catch bugs before they happen, but i'll have to see how well that works once it's out.
But there is still lots that needs to be done before I can make any kind of release, right now i've pretty much only have the main window mostly ready, and with the advent of OS X 10.10 yosemite, I'll have to re-decide what to do with the window theme, like, do I want to make the left side-bar(s) transparent, and will the toolbar be scroll through as in safari.
Not to mention re-planning on how to do things I used to do that could use different approaches, like how to let users choose their own scrapers rather then using the special ViMM blend, and maybe even letting users add their own scrapers. Fixing the TV episodes management side which is actually working in a horrible manner. Making a better sets/collection manager, and figuring out how to implement and get all of my other incredible plans and ideas for v0.8 that I simply must add to actually work. ?
I don't think it'll be ready this year, so be patient with me while i'll make sure ViMM 0.7x keeps working as I slowly build v0.8 up to be the media manager Mac users ought to use, and Windows users will want to switch to Mac OS for.
