PlayList_Manager & Record_This - Page 3

New version of the PLM. It incorporates the new skip feature 'skip MYHD_Sections'. For anybody that looks at the log.txt file, that output has been tweaked too. It tries to generate entries of new found files since the last run. Can't remember if the 'new found' is before or after all 'skipping' has been done.

The ini has been updated to include the new skip stuff. I might suggest that the old exe be saved if you try this new one.

 

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Sorry, I forgot to add that I don't I normally have Program_01 etc... files so testing was limited. Also I do use one of the show options and in the final test run (where it worked) it didn't seem to have any conflict with the show data in the program name. If anybody uses these two options together, this new skip option and show, keep a close eye on the results.

At least I was right 'bout one thing, save the previous version. If you don't mind could you zip up the log.txt file and either post it or mail it to me? If you can reproduce the bad run that is. Works and doesn't work, knew that would happen :<))

How does one post those smileys? TP tried to tell me but I couldn't understand the instructions. Keep inserting the url string instead of the image.

I hopefully fixed the too quick implementation of the feature for jcr. This time I ran it on my live system with over 90 files. This version would not have worked for anybody unless all files ended with "_xx". But I bet for those that tried it knew before me. "Sorry 'bout that" as they said in the movie Warriors. Great flick.

Again this version fixes the the implementation of that feature and it spiffs up the output of the log.txt file. Rearranged here and there and added some counts to tell how many files were this and that.

 

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I do proofread but I want to be clear above, when I said 'This version' I should have said "The previous version".

When you say 'menu' I assume you are talking about the display MYHD thows up on your TV that shows all the programs in the play list. Those are the filenames that MYHD has to use to get to the program. I have no control over the folder and drives and therefore have no control over their getting displayed. I can't control what/how MYHD displays the content of that list. Even tho I create it.

But I also have wondered about seeing a cleaner list display so I'll do some research. I know the system has a cryptic name for the system directory. I'll look into seeing if an application can create and use the same mechanism. No matter what the drive and folder are the list might look like
$MYHD01$Program Name.tp "$MYHD01$ referrring to one given drive:\\folder
$MYHD02$Another Program.tp would be a program on another drive:\\folder combination. That way the program names will all be aligned. Is that what you were looking for? Not sure about hiding the extension.

On the space before the date,,,,, any input from others?

It looks like you are having the date inserted and I see the year is one digit. Sure enough I display one digit if the mo/da/yr is less than 10. Its very easy to make sure dates are two digits if anybody cares. In my first pass at the code I was thinking about keeping the file name as small as possible and letting the slashes separate the digits. Any cares here?

I think I have the disk partiton size set to 10GB for recording. So when I record The Poseidon Adventure (3 hr) tonight I'll see a "_01" file and start using the skip MYHD_Sections option.

After recording Poseidon I quickly saw a couple of problems with the PLM when "_xx" files exist and show date is set.

After I fix the conflict I'll start working on a new feature called 'align'. Hopefully it will remove the folder info from the display and we should see the program names all aligned up. Right now I put the date on the right but if I can get the folder info removed I need to see how it looks on the left. Anybody have show date set and put on the left of the name? Does it look OK?

The option 'Align' has been added in this version of the PLM. It aligns the program names by replacing folder names with a drive letter. The handling of MYHD segmented files, those whose names are appended by "_xx", has been improved.

An attempt was made to add spaces before or after the date field. It was a catastrophe for two reasons. I had a bug and I used my live files. It screwed up the names of over a hundred files. @#%$^#^%$&%$^&% Eventually had to write a routine to fix all the names. I'll try again in a few weeks. Heading to the Windy City for a while.

 

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You people are too kind. The first day away I realized that I had forgot to add one small tweak when the align option was released. I meant to force the clear option if align had been specified. The reason being is that if 'clear' WAS NOT specified the append process would fail miserably because the registry entries now no longer match the actual files names.

Surely someone tried 'align' without 'clear'. When I get back I'll clean it up so the PLM can run with 'align' set and 'clear' not set. In the meantime if you don't specify 'clear' and tried 'align' and got confusing results, set 'clear'.

Chi Town was cold. Except for Monday the highs were in the low to mid 30s. Brrr.

When PLM examined your system it found only 16 available drive letters but there were 24 folders that needed to be changed so I bailed out on changing any of them. Are those folder names longer than 2 characters? Maybe I should go ahead and virtualize all that I can. You must be using folder names for some organization needs other than simply identifying a location of ts & tp files which is no problem.

Virtualize what I can?

My bad.......................... take off the back slash.

Thank you RalphA. I didn't initially see the problem. But I do wonder about the backslash. Maybe I need to try it.

Thanks for the help above. Don't understand how, after setting clear, there were missing entries in the list. If you're so inclined and you generate the condition again would you mind posting the log.txt file? I already plan to completely restore the registry every time the PLM starts. This has to be done in case align is turned off and to make the matching process work. But again, if you set clear there should not be any missing entries.