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Finished Programs / Done: AMDER: Actor Missing Dialogue Error Report release: v1.3.0.0

« Last post by Ath on April 30, 2012, 11:05 AM »

As this was requested from a private irc chat I think it's most appropriate to post this in the Coding Snacks section. And because I already finished it, the Finished Programs section seemed best fitting...

Application Name	AMDER
Version	1.3.0.0
Short Description	Actor Missing Dialogue Error Report: Register and store missing dialogues to be reported
Supported OSes	Windows XP SP3 and later (.NET 4.0 required)
Web Page	This DCmembers page
Download Link	(Available from the above page)
System Requirements	.NET 4.0 runtime
Version History	2012-06-12, v1.3.0.0: Update release, added multi-select for importing .csv files 2012-06-12, v1.2.3.0: Update release, relaxed parsing the pagenumber from .csv files 2012-05-06, v1.2.2.0: Update release, added option for parsing Episode nr and fixed a bug 2012-05-05, v1.2.1.0: Update release, adds installer, makes AMDER single-instance, and fixes an issue 2012-05-04, v1.2.0.0: Update release, details in the release history on the site 2012-04-30, v1.1.0.0: First public release
Author	Ath

Description
This application was requested by Saira, on irc, for recording and storing the timecodes and some other parameters per actor, to be filed as an error report to the script supplier for correction.

Features
Record 'Actor Missing Dialogues' and produce an Error Report from them in form of an Excel .xls or .xlsx file.
The list can be pre-filled by importing (File/Open) a .csv file.

Planned Features
- What is requested by a (potential) user...
- Add multi-select for importing .csv files (1.3.0.0)
- Create an Inno Setup installer (1.2.1.0)
- Batch processing for .csv files with a similar name (1.2.0.0)

Screenshots
The Application in action:


The User-settings screen:


Usage
Installation
Portable edition:
- Download, then unpack the zip-file into it's own directory
- Run the executable directly, or create a shortcut in a convenient place and use that
Installer edition:
- Download the installer, then run it. It'll check if .NET 4.0 is installed, and offer to download and install if it's missing
- Run the application from the optionally created Desktop-shortcut or from the Start menu

Using the Application
- Start a new Error report by either using the 'Add New error' button or using 'File/New'
- Type (or select) an Episode name/number, (the list will be automatically extended with what is typed)
- Type (or select) an Actor name, (the list will be automatically extended with what is typed)
- Select the feature(s) that is/are wrong with the Dialogue (use Up/Down arrow keys to select)

Uninstallation
Both editions:
- Optionally remove any files created
- Optionally remove any usersettings file(s): {UserAppData}\AMDER\UserSettings.xml
Portable edition:
- Remove the directory created earlier
Installer edition:
- Run the un-installer from the Windows Configuration screen

Known Issues
- None known
- Fixed a bug that the Episode number wasn't taken from the Episode name (since 1.2.0.0)
- Error message when closing AMDER because the settings directory doesn't exist

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text Parsing and Output ( Result in Excel, load multiple DOC,RTF,Word Files )

« Last post by Ath on April 30, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Updated ScriptLineCounter to version 1.5.0.0

What's new/changed:

• Changed: Replaced own simple logging system by calls to Log4J (infrastructure already required for other libs)

TODO: (in priority-order)

• Improve and expand the GUI interface (partially done)
• Possibly add headers and footers to the output
• Add some unexpected features
• Fix any bugs or issues reported (3 until now )
• Replace own logging system by log4j (already required/used by some libs)
• Handle pdf files for input
• Handle extra file-format extracted from samples received
• Write a Readme.txt file
• Create a GUI interface

Download:

• From the ScriptLineCounter webpage

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Web Link Captor / Re: Web Link Captor is occasionally useful!

« Last post by Ath on April 30, 2012, 08:22 AM »

But when are you going to take your friend to the movies? With that whopping list of reviews to read, there's no time left to go to a theater and actually watch one of them

IOW: WLC is waaay to useful!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Not Unicode?

« Last post by Ath on April 30, 2012, 06:00 AM »

A related question that popped up recently (but has been lingering around for a while), is if a Unicode-capable program, should also support rtl-languages like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc., now that these character-sets are supported?

Writing software that is available, and could be used, globally, I might have to educate myself in these features and languages, just to 'support' the roughly 1/3 part of the world that uses their language that way...

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General Software Discussion / Re: free antivirus

« Last post by Ath on April 28, 2012, 03:01 PM »

I'll add a +1 for Avast here. (or +4 for 4 computers )
Light-weight (though recent AVG versions don't seem to be as bad as older ones), pretty light on ads, updates at least every 4 hours, but yes, an annual 'license renewal cycle', that can be a bit of a pain, but it's still free.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Syllable Counter & Word Count for arabic/english

« Last post by Ath on April 28, 2012, 12:27 PM »

Hm, the plot thickens: http://mylanguages.o.../arabic_alphabet.php this page gives a good explanation of the Arabic alphabet for who doesn't know it (like me), and also kinda suggests that Arabic words can't be split into real syllables...

Because of the lack of any knowledge on this subject, I'll pass on this one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 to offer nine versions for sale

« Last post by Ath on April 28, 2012, 02:59 AM »

And most of the existing library will probably not be ported at all.

-Deozaan (April 28, 2012, 02:48 AM)

Sounds like Microsoft is shooting themself in the foot... with a high-power nuclear gun

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Developer's Corner / Re: Not Unicode?

« Last post by Ath on April 28, 2012, 02:45 AM »

Is there ever any compelling reason to not use Unicode?

-Renegade (April 28, 2012, 12:03 AM)

1) When using a compiler/runtime lib that doesn't (natively) support unicode... (ex. Delphi / BCB < 2009)

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows xp sound device problems

« Last post by Ath on April 27, 2012, 03:34 PM »

Sounds like Windows is terribly hosed in some way. A re-install should work wonders...

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows xp sound device problems

« Last post by Ath on April 27, 2012, 08:58 AM »

About b)

Windows 7 has an animation in the volume controls if sounds is actually 'passing through' that channel. Hm, I now see that XP doesn't have that

You could check if the Wave channel is accidentally muted: (just like Carol said)

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General Software Discussion / Re: windows xp sound device problems

« Last post by Ath on April 27, 2012, 04:33 AM »

A few silly questions, but they have to be asked:
a) Do you have the correct drivers installed? (No exclamations/warnings in the system hardware configuration?)
b) Does any sound produced give a VU-meter like animation in the extended volume controller?
c) Are the speakers plugged into the right (green-ringed usually) output connector?
d) Do the speakers work on another system?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 26, 2012, 04:39 PM »

Yes, a missing pgno is 0, I've made it somewhat tolerant for input, so that "pgno1", "pgno 1", "pgno-1", "pgno -1" or "pgno - 1" all result in page 1 (and multiple spaces are allowed as well).
I could make it more flexible if needed, by also allowing "pg", "pgn", "pgnr" or "page" instead of "pgno", but I didn't do that yet.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 26, 2012, 03:43 PM »

Saira, would the pgno 'trick' be applicable to the (song...) lines as well?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 26, 2012, 11:56 AM »

I'll add that, that's not too difficult

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 26, 2012, 02:49 AM »

@Saira: Can you attach here, or e-mail me, a sample please?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 25, 2012, 10:33 AM »

@Saira: I'll see how to add that, as these 'song'-lines won't fall into the category of "Missing Dialogue"... You want these also added to the error report?

@Renegade: csv is easily handled by the XLSX library (EPPlus, extension of ExcelPackage, both on CodePlex) that I use to write the Excel .xlsx files

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 25, 2012, 02:54 AM »

I've pre-released a version of AMDER (v0.7, not yet openly released, but that shouldn't take much longer) to Saira, that has support for reading this file-format into the desired result for further processing.
Saira will be testing this, but I assume this request can be marked resolved.

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by Ath on April 25, 2012, 02:30 AM »

as for the pdfs, an example is this:
http://www.purolite....n%20Chem%20Specs.pdf
(renamed as Hydrochloric Muriatic Acid.pdf)

-kalos (April 25, 2012, 02:12 AM)

Does that mean there are more then 1 chemical components described in 1 pdf file, or is this the kind of resulting pdf you want to have output eventually?

And how are the chemical components in the 'word list' separated from each other, by comma's or each on a new line? Or just try to find a word as a pdf, if not there, add the next word and retry, etc.?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by Ath on April 25, 2012, 01:46 AM »

+1 for 7-Zip, and if you want to minimize clicks, turn off 'Cascaded context menu' in Options/7-Zip, so Extract Here and Extract to <folder> are directly available in the right-click context menu. Less than 2 clicks is useless imho, would you want all your zip-files to be extracted on double-click?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Dual Monitor Issues-Screen goes to black

« Last post by Ath on April 24, 2012, 02:53 PM »

Hi, welcome to the site

A few questions:
- You have the latest drivers for both video adapters installed? (check manufacturer's website, Windows update doesn't have 'm all up to date)
- You have the current ScreenShotCaptor downloaded?

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General Software Discussion / Re: automate database building

« Last post by Ath on April 24, 2012, 02:24 PM »

Probably needs more explanation, because I can't comprehend, even after reading it 3 times in a row

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 24, 2012, 12:08 PM »

Andy, I'm already working on another util for Saira that needs this data added/inserted. I'll add this as a feature with that tool

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make icons in 'Show hidden icons' LARGE ?

« Last post by Ath on April 24, 2012, 07:49 AM »

What didn't change in size was, the icons in mention!!

-Curt (April 24, 2012, 06:50 AM)

Even after a re-logon (as required by this settings-change) or, more radically, a reboot?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« Last post by Ath on April 24, 2012, 01:31 AM »

I'll integrate this in the error-report utility I made for Saira, AMDER, later today. Should be easy, as the error-report features are already there.

AMDER will be released sometime later this week.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing Aero-child-windows

« Last post by Ath on April 22, 2012, 04:36 AM »

Hm, I think it's a limitation of Windows, not being able to minimize/hide the parent if a modal child-windows is in front of it.