Thanx for the appreciation guys. I only gave 2 hrs to that design as I am also working on my 3D Portfolio. A WIP render was published on my blog today.
it would be nice..if u can use a List control to store the movie names as child nodes and a single disc name as the root node.. and if u use that MFC u wont be having much problem in search too as it is natively supported by it ....
I have a better idea. Have a look at the "Add Video Catalog" Window of mine. There is a section by the name "Disc Content". The user can enter whatever he wants in it, & all the words he adds in it becomes a "Tag" automatically except for generic words like "in" "the" etc.
Guys, let's make it happen. What Features would someone as a user want from one such application. What I have thought so far.....
1) Add a Catalog
Everything is a Disk, there is no difference in treating a CD or DVD cos once burned user will just write the Number on it & put it inside the CD Rack. ->
User selects what catalog he wants to add, Video, Audio, Files (video, audio, documents, pdf) or Game Disk. ->
User gets the page to enter the information about the disk as shown. He will enter disk number, Disc content, tags, disk creation date & disk type. ->
Disk type can be predefined or user defined such as "Audio CDs", "CD Rips" "Home Videos", "Vacation Movies" etc etc ->
Once the Catalog is created the user will save it & it will be saved in the database. ->
To retrive all the user has to do is to either search for it in the database using the search field or Simply select a particular Disk type from the sidebar. He can sort it using custom fields like in WMP11 such as Name, Status etc etc.
What other features you guys think should be there. IMdb Search etc doesn't fit in this software as it is a catalog of our own Disks & not of some Online Disk Store. Although, if Jai wants, he can include it as the way it is (nicely coded).