Ant Movie Catalog Viewer

Version: 1.7.1
Release Date: January 29, 2012
© 2008, Priyatna. All rights reserved.
http://www.priyatna.org/

This is a program to display movie catalog files (*.amc files) created by Ant Movie Catalog, a scriptable movie collection manager freely available at http://www.antp.be/. It has a configurable sleek user interface and is suitable for stand-alone catalog kiosque that only need to open the file read-only. Current features:

• Sleek, flat and configurable user interface.
• Flexible grouping and sorting.
• It reads the catalog file as read-only, so your catalog file is safe.
• It has password protected mode, that disallows user to change settings or open another file or close the program. This feature is useful when this program is used as a stand-alone movie catalog kiosk for movie rentals, dvd shops, etc.

Version History

Version 1.7.1 (January 29, 2012)
- Support of catalogs made by Ant Movie Catalog 4.1

Version 1.7 (July 24, 2011)
- Bug fix so that searched movies can be played directly without selecting them in left panel
- Scrolling top images have been smoothed
- Possibility to use shortcut keyboard 'p' to run movie player.

Version 1.6 (July 25, 2008)
- Now uses half stars in rating. Movies with rating 7, for example, will get 3 and half stars.
- Bug fix in last group & order state saving (checkmarks in group & sort menu not synched).
- Several translations: German, Poland, Spanish. Who else?

Version 1.5 (July 4, 2008)
- Saving last group and last order. (Finally! Sorry, for those who requests this little feature for so long.)
- Added "Close" button when runs in fullscreen.
- Customizable language in GUI. Translations are welcome. Just copy the "English.lng" to different language and edit it with Notepad. No unicode support yet. Settings window is still in English.
- Copying content to clipboard is now working.

Version 1.4 (January 12, 2008)
- Keyboard support for left panel.
- Five star rating system, instead of four.
- Complete and flexible grouping and sorting capabilities.
- Search within title, actors, directors, producers, descriptions and comments.
- An option to show "Original Title" or "Translated Title".
- User variables.

Version 1.3 (July 22, 2007)
- Support for external player
- Support for video path stored in field
- Ability to show/hide top scrolling images
- Ability to put on/off scrolling
- Ability to show/hide buttons
- Ability to limit picture size to a specified size
- Portable, can be launched from read-only media, i.e: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Version 1.2 (July 1, 2007)
- Support for linked pictures outside the catalog
- Progress bar when loading catalog
- Bug fixed: paragraphs in actors, description and comments field doesn't handled correctly

Version 1.1 (June 28, 2007)
- Bug fixed: error when there's a movie without picture
- Bug fixed: blurry small images in top image navigation
- Bug fixed: sometimes error occurs when moving mouse over top image navigation after changing catalog file
- Improved: program can remember last position and size

Version 1.0 (June 12, 2007)
First Release

License

This program is freeware. You can use it as you see fit. This software is distributed on AS-IS basis, no guaranty or warranty, either expressed or implied. The author cannot be held responsible for damages caused by using or misusing this product.

Sourcecode

The sourcecode of the program is released under Mozilla Public License (MPL), and is available at http://www.priyatna.org/freewares/antviewer.php.

Contact

Don't hesitate to report any bug or whish to me:

Priyatna
Bandung - Indonesia

http://www.priyatna.org/
mailto:me@priyatna.org