I made a mistake when I created CastCrewCheck. 
I didn't read the rules properly. I figured that since crew was divided into sections in Profiler, there was no point in trying to sort crew entries since they would be placed into different sections automatically. It didn't occur to me that the order within the sections was important, since the sectioning broke the credit order anyway. I was wrong.

Well, to be frank, I still don't see the point. In cast it makes sense to mimic the credits. But since crew does not mimic the credits, it doesn't makes sense (to me) that we should bother about the order within the individual sections. But hey, them's the rules.

So, in CastCrewCheck 2.19 checking crew works the same as checking cast. The checked item is moved up into the first unchecked spot (unless you unselect this option in Settings). I still don't order them by section, because Profiler itself will see to that, but this way they will be copied into Profiler in the order they were checked, which should be the order they appear in the credits.

DOH! Fixed one problem, created another.



OK, not a serious problem, but still. CastCrewCheck 2.19.3 should work the way I intended. I hope ...

My screwups help make this program better ... 

I was editing cast for a profile, and I had added a group divider for a group, and then I was going to remove the individual roles for the group (by selecting the group divider, right clicking and selecting "Clear all group roles"). Well, guess what. I mistakenly selected "Clear all roles" and cursed myself when I saw all roles go blank, not just the ones in the group.

So, now I have added not one but two security measures to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
Firstly, when a group divider is selected, "Clear all roles" is disabled.
Secondly, there is a confirmation question when you do click "Clear all roles".

If you paste Cast into CastCrewCheck and the title in the clipboard is different from the title already in the program, the Crew will be blanked out, and vice versa. This is how it has been from the start, and the reason is to prevent that you have cast and crew from different movies by mistake.

However, there may be times when that is a hindrance. If, for whatever reason, you want to copy cast from a profile and crew from IMDb via CastCrewEdit, that will be a problem if the titles don't match exactly. But now, if you copy from CastCrewEdit first, and then copy cast from the profile and hold down Shift while pasting into CastCrewCheck, then crew will not be clanked out. And, of course, the same goes if you just want to copy crew from the profile.

There are also a couple of minor cosmetic fixes.

CastCrewCheck 2.21.0

PS If you do copy from IMDb, you must verify the data against the actual credits if you wish to contribute the data.
Yeah, you knew that of course, but I just felt it was best to remind you.

CastCrewCheck 2.22.1 - minor bug fix.

Version 2.22.0 introduced a bug that caused an exception if you added a cast name that was only a first name. After you dismissed the error window it still worked as expected, so it was just an annoyance. But I have fixed it anyway. I don't want any annoyed users, do I ... 

Quoting GSyren:

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CastCrewCheck 2.23.0
Another small improvement to make it easier to check cast.

When cast is already in correct order you can use Ctrl-X to check off a cast member and move the selection to the next cast member. Thus, if the cast is mostly (or completely) correct, it makes it a lot easier than having to move the mouse to the checkbox and click. Just keep pressing Ctrl-X as long as the selected entry is correct.

I have added a new topic "Shortcut Keys" to the help file, where all the shortcut keys are documented. If you have missed them, they are (in addition to Ctrl-X):

Ctrl-A - Add a member (cast or crew depending on which tab is selected)
Ctrl-D - Add a divider
Ctrl-H - Hide the window (while Ctrl-H is pressed)
Ctrl-T - Toggle transparency and topmost
Ctrl-V - Paste cast or crew

Note: In previous versions Ctrl-X was used to hide the window, like Ctrl-H is used now. But since it was an undocumented feature I decided to change it to Ctrl-H since I found that Ctrl-X was better suited for the function described above. If anybody stumbled across the undocumented Ctrl-X, I apologize for turning your world upside down by changing it. 

Generally Ctrl-X is Cut in the Cut/Copy/Paste context. I would not use it for anything else...

Just my two cents...

CastCrewCheck 2.24.0



One of my faster updates ... 
Open from Tools / Shortcut keys.

DOH (Re: Me)
With apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein

DOH! Oh dear, what do I hear?
Re: A CastCrewCheck mistake
Me, I never noticed it
Far from it, for goodness sake
So, I have it fixed all right
La? A word I do not know
Tease me not, or I will fight
And that would bring me back to – DOH!

Is that bad? Well, at least be thankful you won't hear me sing it! 
So, what prompts me to trash a beloved song from Sound of Music? For one thing, it was just fun to parody that song. It's not perfect, but even Oscar Hammerstein failed to do anything with "la", so I don't feel bad about that. It does rhyme in the same places that the original does, though.

But of course, the real reason was just "DOH!". In the last update I overlooked something that should have been obvious, but I just didn't think of it. What if you get multiple birth years from the birth year list, but when you reasearch it you find that none of them are correct. There was no easy way to enter another birth year. This update fixes that. Just hit Escape, and the combobox goes away and you can enter a birth year in the normal way.

At the same time I fixed a small display issue. When you edited a cast or crew member without a birth year, it displayed a birth year as [0] in the list. It didn't change the functionality, but it looked strange.

So, this is fixed in CastCrewCheck 2.25.1

Even though it was a cast listing that inspired me to create the sort feature, it is actually much more useful for crew. Cast listings imported from IMDb are usually more or less in the correct order, so sorting them would actually make them harder to use. And there is no undo, so have that in mind.

Crew, on the other hand, is practically never in the "correct" order when you get it from IMDb. And by that I mean that it is not in the order that you find the credits in the movie. So if the crew list is fairly large (which it often is in modern movies), sorting it makes a lot of sense.

By the way, when you sort crew by function, it is actually sorted by function and name. Usually not an issue, but if you have 50 Visual Effects credits it may be nice to have those credits sorted by name within the group.