To play movie select the movie you want to be played from the View Pane and then click on the "Play" button located on the toolbar. Doing this will present you with the "Play Movie dialog" (Figure 4, “vMovieDB Play Movie dialog”).
Play Movie dialog contains information for the movie you are about to play. Click the "Play" button to start playing or "Cancel" button to quit the dialog.
You can also play movie by selecting Ctrl-P or you can click on the selected movie with the right mouse button and choose "Play" from the popup menu.
-> from the menubar, pressingTo add move click on the "Add movie" button located on the toolbar. Doing this will present you with the "Add Movie" dialog.
The "Add Movie" dialog has two tabs - "Movie details"(Figure 5, “vMovieDB Add Movie dialog "Movie details" tab”) and "Comment" (Figure 6, “vMovieDB Add Movie dialog main section”).
In the "Movie details" tab you can enter general information about the movie you want to add. Set the movie rating, location, tag categorization and image.
The title field is requied. You won't be able to add movie withought entering information in this field. All other fields and settings are optional.
In the "Comment" tab you are able to enter comment for the movie.
You can save you comment to text document by clicking "Save to file" button.
To clear you whole comment click on the button.
There are no restrictions about the comment lenght but it's recommeded to keep your comment's in the lenght between 0 and 5000 characters, for application preformance reasons.
To add your movie click on the "Add" button, or to cancel the operation click "Cancel" button.
You can also add movie by selecting Ctrl-M or you can use the popup menu accessible from view pane and select "Add Movie"
-> from the menubar, pressingTo edit movie, select the movie you want to edit from the view pane and click "Edit movie" toolbar button. Doing this will present you with the "Edit movie" dialog.
The "Edit Movie" dialog has two tabs - "Movie Details"(Figure 7, “vMovieDB Edit Movie dialog "Movie details" tab”) and "Comment"(Figure 8, “vMovieDB Edit Movie dialog "Comment" tab”).
In the "Movie details" tab you can change general information about the selected movie. Ajust the movie rating, correct the location, change tag categorization and image.
The title field is requied. You won't be able to save your changes to the movie withought entering information in this field. All other fields and settings are optional.
In the "Comment" tab you are able to change or clear the movie comment.
You can save you comment to text document by clicking "Save to file" button.
To clear you whole comment click on the button.
There are no restrictions about the comment lenght but it's recommeded to keep your comment's in the lenght between 0 and 5000 characters, for application preformance reasons.
To save the changes to the edited movie click the "Save" button, or to cancel the operation click "Cancel".
You can also edit movie by selecting
-> from the menubar, or you can use the popup menu accessible from view pane and select "Edit Movie"To delete movie select the movie you want to delete and click "Delete movie" toolbar button. You will be asked for confirmation. Click "Yes" to delete the movie or "No" to cancel the operation.
You can also delete movie by selecting
-> from the menubar, or you can use the popup menu accessible from view pane and select "Delete Movie"To search for a movie in the movie database click "Find" toolbar button. Doing this will present you with the "Find" dialog (Figure 9, “vMovieDB Find dialog.”).
Select the criteria by wich you want to do your search. Type the keyword in the entry and click "Find" button. If there are any movies maching the selected criteria they will be displayed in the list below the search box.
When you click with the right mouse button on some result from the search operation, a popup menu is displayed, from wich you can preform one of the listed operation on the result.
Table 2 describes the available movie search criterias and shows example for each of them.
Table 2. vMovieDB find dialog search criterias.
Criteria | Description | Example usage |
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Title | Search for movie by it's title. | EXAMPLE: "R" will return all movies having "R" in their titles, "Rambo" will return all movies wich have that name in their titles. |
Year | Search for movie by year. | EXAMPLE: "1994" will return all movies released in 1994. |
Format | Search by format | EXAMPLE: "avi" will return all movies in avi format. |
Quality | Search for mobie by it's quality. | EXAMPLE: "Good" will return all movie in the database listed to have a good quality. |
Subtitles | Search for movie by subtitles. | EXAMPLE: "Yes" will return all movies having subtitles. |
Genre | Search fot movie by it's genre. | EXAMPLE: "Comedy" will return wall movies listed under this genre. |
vMovieDB do not determin the movie quality by it self. The movie quality is set by the user and may not have the same values as shown in the search example.
To export your movies database to an HTML document select Figure 10, “vMovieDB Export to HTML document dialog.”) dialog.
+ -> from the menubar. Doing this will present you with the "Export to HTML document" (In the "Header" field type the title of your document, in the "File name" field type the name of your document followed by ".html" extention. When you are redy press the "Export" button.
Message showing the result of the operation will be displayed.
To export your movies database to text document select Figure 11, “vMovieDB Export to text document dialog.”) dialog.
+ -> from the menubar. Doing this will present you with the "Export to text document"(In the "File name" field type the name of your document followed by ".txt" extention. When you are ready press the "Export" button.
Message showing the result of the operation will be displayed.