2009-02-10, 21:34
webmosher Wrote:I am not sure what language Movie Info Plus is written in, but hand rolling image manipulation functions is not very simple. Most languages which make it "easy" for the developer are wrapping some other library that is well established. It would be a better idea if the ImageMagick was just included since you only need the DLL. Perhaps their licensing doesn't allow this.You have a point there but what I suggested was for a reason and that reason is .NET. Fekker just said that MIP is coded in .NET and I already knew that. I'm very familiar with .NET, be it VB.NET or C#, I code in both (more in C# lately, but it's all the same) and I've been coding in .NET for some years now. My suggestion came from that, .NET already has a bunch of features that simplifies lot of things. For such a simple thing as placing a bitmap on top of another, that's very easy to do in .NET with only a few lines of code. Of course, if more advanced image manipulation is needed, I'm all in favor of a specific library, like ImageMagick, to do all the dirty things.
webmosher Wrote:Regarding the size of the download. The program comes with pre-cached IMDB info, so that contributes to the size significantly. It reduces the downloading required by the program though, so as your collection size increases, it does have a benefit.I didn't knew that...
But maybe, a version without any pre-cached info would be nice. Or is there one already? I mean, which info is pre-cached? For which movies? Not everyone has the same movies in their database
But this is another thing that is not part of what I was suggesting lately
@kizer
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kizer Wrote:I suppose the download could be modularized meaning the app could be stand alone and things downloaded as things change or features are wanted to be used by the user like the tagger. Maybe not have it installed, but could be installed and downloaded to reduce the size of the initial download or something like that.I don't know the sepecifics about MIP as I haven't had the time to install it, but I wouldn't go that far. My point is only that a full fledge library is being used, when it's only needed for a simple basic feature that can be done in the core of MIP, that's all I'm saying.
kizer Wrote:Did you ever start working on a new look for MIP? I knew you said you would if you had some time. I'm still curious to see what you think unless of course thats a behind the scene thing with fekker.I started to do something because I was very anxious to get to it, but it's very basic right now and I'm having a little problem on how am I going to organize something. If only Krypton Navigator was free too Either way, I have 3 important univeristy exams coming up, one on thursday, next on saturday and another on the following thursday. After that, I'll have more time for this and my own projects, right now, I have lots of study to do.
fekker Wrote:Image Magick is used for tagging right now, but gives the options to expand what I can do later. I don't have the time or skill to write my own app that will do the overlay of png or jpg with custom compression options and multiple format support.Didn't thought about the multiple format support and all that... But what if only the output format is the same and only one, jpg or png, but allow different input formats? Would that be a enough? If yes, maybe I can help you on the overlay thing. For now, just leave it as it is. I'll get back to you about this in the future and we think about it.