EpisodeCheck + TmdbTvShowCheck = True!

Sorry that the video is a bit fuzzy, bit it shows how quick and easy it is to import episode data into EpisodeCheck with the help of TmdbTvShowCheck.

Initially I had planned to include the functionality for getting episode data directly into EpisodeCheck, but then I realized it would be much easier to just make the two programs work together.

You'll need to update both programs. EpisodeCheck 1.8.0 and TmdbTvShowCheck 1.4.0.

EpisodeCheck 1.9

A couple of changes to make EpisodeCheck just a little bit more user friendly.

If you have several shows that you are watching, switching between shows will now be a little easier.
Just hit F3 (or select Tools / Recently watched seasons from the menu):


Also, when you are watching a show and want to mark an episode as watched, just hitting F2 will mark the first unwatched episode in the list as watched. No need to fiddle with the mouse.

Ctrl-F2 will mark the last watched episode in the list as unwatched. Just in case you set something as watched by mistake.

Backstory (just in case anyone is interested):

I don't like laptops. Never did. Got through my whole IT career with just a desktop PC. As far as I know I was the only person in the whole company who never had a laptop. On a few occasion I had used someone elses laptop. Never warmed to it.

At home, I used to get by very well with just a desktop PC in my study and an iPad in my living room (where I watched my movies). When I developed EpisodeCheck, at first I used SplashTop to access my PC from the iPad, in order to keep track of my TV shows. But that was kind of klunky.

So I finally broke down and bought an HP laptop. I thought that it would be good to have a second, "virgin" PC to test my programs on. And it would make it easier to use EpisodeCheck.

I did, however, find that I still hated fiddling with the trackpad to move the mouse pointer. So that's the main reason that I wanted to make EpisodeCheck more keyboard friendly.

Will this trackpad aversion lead to more of my programs being updated to be more keyboard friendly? Perhaps. I still use my programs mostly on the desktop, but who knows. If anyone feels that any of my programs could be made more user firendly, don't hesitate to ask!

Greenie. Thanks for further developing these great tools of yours 

Why do I always do it the hard way?

Well, perhaps not always, but often. And this one is an example. Let me give you the background ...

Some TV shows start with an intro that's just short snippets of the show to come. Sort of a trailer to get viewers interested so they don't switch to another channel. Useless if you're watching the show on DVD (or BD), and actually "spoilerous", if you know what I mean. I like to skip that part if I can. The opening credits also get pretty repetitious after a while. I like to skip those too, if I can. The key here is "if I can". Does skipping to the next chapter take me to the actual start of the show?

If you are binge watching a show, you soon learn the answer to that question. But I tend to have multiple shows in progress, watching an episode or two from one show and then switch to another. And I can never remember which shows that are "skippable". So I wanted to be able to note that somewhere so I would know. And keeping that info in EpisodeCheck seemed to make sense, so it would look something like this:



My first thought was to just make it possible to display just exactly those two tags. But then that little developer angel on my shoulder whispered in my ear "Other users may want to use other tags". Shuddup Jiminy! This is my program and I do with it what I need and want. But of course that idea had infested my brain like a little parasite, and the only way to get rid of it was to actually develop the program so that these tags could be fully configurable.

So, now that's done. And you can see the result in EpisodeCheck 1.10.0. I'm not going to tell you more than that. The whole thing is clearly explained in the help file, in the chapter named Season tags. Go find out!

Quoting GSyren:

Quoting GSyren:

Quote:
He he, are you a fan of Buffy in general, or Juliet Landau in particular, Karsten? 

More so of James Masters.

After watching him on Buffy and Smallville, last year I listened to his reading of the Dresden Files audio books (15 books to date). He was a constant companion over months.

From



to




Book sample

Being cooped up has made me dig down in my to-do lists and fix a minor problem in EpisodeCheck.
Sometimes the last watched season wasn't shown when you selected Recently watched seasons.
That's fixed now, and the sorting has been reversed so the most currently watched season is shown first.

EpisodeCheck 1.12.1